Giliell
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ImprobableJoe said:... shot with vaccines, right?
Probably :lol:
Some people won't get a joke if it's doing a lapdance in front of them...
Like the eradication of smallpox and more or less polio thanx to vaccines?The only reason could be because you can say that I am compromising "herd immunity." I would simply ask for some SCIENCE behind it. You know...something a REASONED person would do.
The fact that measles, common in my childhood which isn't that far back, are now almost absent and where outbreaks usually happen due to people not being vaccinated?
The fact that mortality in old age homes and hospitals during the flue season drops significantly if the staff are vaccinated?
Herd immunity means that disseases have less chances of spreading through the population.
Not everybody CAN be vaccinated (yes, there are medical reasons why people shouldn't be vaccinated) and not everybody will build up resistence (so-called non-responders). Some disseases are most dangerous to babies and infants before they reached the age at which they can be vaccinated, measles are a good example. Those people, who shouldn't be vaccinated or who cannot be yet vaccinated, are also those who'll suffer most from the dissease itself. The only way to protect those who are most vulnerable is to prevent the dissease from reaching them at all. And the best way to do that is to build up a good herd-immunity.
I strongly recommend the Atheist Experience on that topic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-UtZrZzxTU
I especially recommend part three at about 5:40 when she talks about the results of the Hep A vaccination in Texas.
Your general rejection of modern medicine doesn't seem to be based on science and reason, for example your rejection of antibiotics as such. Although I agree that that antibiotics are over-used and therefore gradually deprived of their effectiveness, a lot of us are owing our lives to them. If you've ever been down with streptococcus B, seen your legs swelling to treetrunks, spilling puss over your bedsheets where you're lying down with a fever and then being up and about again within two days after being administered antibiotics, you might think differently.
Of course it might also be a faith healing of any god randomly handing out miracles...
And as I said, you can reject any vaccine you want as an adult. You can go bungee-jumping, too, or drive stock-car races. I don#t mind how you kill yourself. But if your rejection of modern medicine is endangering children, society has to step in.