Why in the hell do you keep asking this dimwitted question? Polio, diphtheria, HiB, measles... all minimized as threats b/c of vaccinations and public health. Your question would be parallel to asking if seatbelts are required for health.
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Replying to @drbrignall @kath2cats
Why do you keep trying to deflect rather than acknowledge that I was right to point out that the belief that vaccines are required for good health is false?
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Replying to @jeremyrhammond @kath2cats
Because that is an idiotic thing to say. You are flaunting the fact that your family benefits from herd immunity. I cannot fathom being that selfish.
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Replying to @drbrignall @kath2cats
It is idiotic to describe as "idiotic" my having corrected those who were of the false belief that vaccines are required for good health.
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Replying to @jeremyrhammond @kath2cats
Talking to you is about as productive as trying to put toothpaste back in the tube. You are the only one who is saying this bullshit strawman argument. Kath and I are saying that free riders are breaking our prevention programs. Risk / benefit is shifting.
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Replying to @drbrignall @kath2cats
Now you're deflecting again. Why don't you just acknowledge that I was right to correct those who were expressing their false belief that vaccines are required for good health? Why is that so hard for you?
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Replying to @jeremyrhammond @kath2cats
You may in fact be the most frustrating person I've ever met. There are people who are healthy who are unvaccinated. I'll see one at my clinic today, possibly. But when measles or polio comes to town, they are at greater risk, and as children, they didn't consent to it.
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Replying to @drbrignall @kath2cats
Actually, when measles comes to town, your infant and older adult patients will be at higher risk BECAUSE OF mass vaccination, as I've tried to educate you about, but which you refuse to learn.
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Actually, that's total nonsense. You're misapplying an idea - those who do get measles now are those, by definition, who are more at risk. However the MAJORITY of the at-risk population is safe BECAUSE OF mass vaccination
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You're mistaken. Far from "nonsense", the phenomenon I've just described is acknowledged by leading experts in the field in the scientific literature.
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Lol, as I've said before, a single sentence in a 94 paper that you are citing incorrectly is not the same as "acknowledged by leading experts in the field". You're just wrong 
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