Lighthouse
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You're risky stuff about life, while true... contradicts your logic. One has a greater chance of dying or developing side effects, potential mid-long term illnesses from a vac than getting a disease, in which can easily and naturally be fought off and becoming naturally immune lifelong needing no vaccines. I don't really understand the fear you have for diseases that have assenuated and in which the vast majority don't even die and are easily treated with developing lifelong immunity from the real thing. If life is so risky in every possible aspect, why vaccinate when there are endless amounts of other ways more common to die than getting a disease that has a vaccine for it? Why get a vaccine if it does not stop the spreading, does not prevent one from getting the disease, kills and harms, is unknown the near-mid-long term effects?The point is, life is risky. You’re taking a risk by walking down your stairs in the morning, by walking outside, by driving to work, etc. Almost 1.3 million people die in car crashes every year, while many tens of millions more are injured or disabled. But we all get into our cars and drive to work every day. We do that because we feel that the benefits outweigh the costs, even though we could easily lose our lives. It almost defies common sense, doesn’t it?
Kids aren’t allowed to bring peanut butter to school if even one child in the whole school is allergic to peanuts. Why? Because the cost of that one child potentially losing his/her life outweighs the benefit of the rest of the children being allowed to enjoy peanut butter sandwiches.
The benefits of mass vaccination outweigh the costs of not vaccinating, given that millions of lives are saved by those vaccines and diseases that have been known to cause mass human suffering can be virtually wiped out. Herd immunity works. There can be some very negative side effects for some people, nobody denies that. But incidences of such are quite rare. Vaccines help vastly more people than they hurt.
Pouring billions of dollars into vaccines in the Third World saves millions of lives every year. That is demonstrable. Pouring money into better sanitation is also a worthy goal.
Who are “they?” and why do you think they’re talking to me?
Yes, one can do their own unbiased research if one looks for said research on academic and scientific sites. If one does so, one will find a plethora of evidence indicating that vaccines have caused far more good than harm.
Who said we are free of diseases? I said we are free of many of the diseases we have been vaccinating against for many years.
Again, where do you get that number from?
Again, you misquote me. I didn’t say children don’t die. I said “gone are the days when large amounts of children died before the age of 5 from preventable or curable illnesses.” According to the CDC the infant mortality rate declined greater than 90% from 1915 to 1997.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4838a2.htm
Depending on what part of the world we’re talking about, up until about the second half of the 19th century, anywhere from a quarter to one third of children died before the age of five.
http://www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-death/trends-in-death
http://www.who.int/bulletin/archives/78(10)1175.pdf
https://opentextbc.ca/preconfederation/chapter/childhood-in-a-dangerous-time/
That is why it’s important for a large amount of the population to be vaccinated; to protect the unprotected and under-protected from contracting the diseases.
I’m sorry, but I don’t think your logic makes very much sense. 80-90% Effectiveness is preferential to 0% effectiveness (from not being vaccinated), is it not? I mean, using your line of reasoning, people shouldn’t bother using condoms given that they’re only effective 98% of the time.
I think I’ve already explained why I feel it’s irresponsible not to vaccinate.
Is there anyone who hasn’t heard of booster shots?
Why do you keep talking about placebo?
I’ve already addressed your “shedding” claim.
I don’t know where you’re pulling this common sense from, but it isn’t making much sense. There’s no mental indoctrination here.
These remarks are mostly double minded and hypocritical. You bring the peanut butter up and how 1 life saved outweighs.
Can't bring peanut butter to school but can bring live virus's to school. 0 measles deaths in US past 10 years and over 100 deaths from measles vac. The list is endless. Please stop preaching one life saved outweighs. I've already pointed out the hypocrisy of using your immune deficient niece as an example yet preach mass vaccination in every other immune deficient child in third world countries. 1 life saved does not matter to you. Why not be honest and come out and say that you're fine and willing to kill and harm many for your faith of the greater good? Why not be honest and say that everyone is an expendable statistic for the greater good?
Another lie, vaccines do not stop the spread of disease. Vaccines do not stop people from being fully vaccinated and getting the disease. Live virus's are brought to school by those vaccinated and are around the immune-deficient regularly. I keep bringing up placebo for this very reason. Maybe if you believe something enough, it is true. Maybe not.
Common sense would indicate that something "alleged" 80-90% effective for a few years would not indicate that it is more effective than something 0%. You are failing to note that the human body has natural defenses or are you saying the human body is 0% naturally effective? That was never the point, the point was discussing the concept of herd immunity. Not correlating it to something completely different. Don't steer off the topic. Nice attempt though.
How long are booster shots allegedly effective for? Why do you need a booster shot in the first place? What will you do when that booster wears off?