weird that “vaccines cause autism” is automatically considered an antivax position where my “equally in favor of herd immunity and herd sperglordship” squad at
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past a certain point infections starting from recently vaccinated spreading to immunocompromised become a noticable chunk of cases, which is interesting.
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herd immunity is either saying that vaccination shelters the unvaccinated(for whatever reason) or admitting that vaccination isn't quite as effective as claimed, else you wouldn't care if they guy next to you is vaccinated.
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argument I've seen is that vaccination is really only 90% effective (or w/e), so you're still at risk from contagion definitely true that vaccination is less effective than natural immunity; I got chicken pox when I was 3, no booster shots needed ever
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basically this is the sophisticated version of the standard case, but it's not good to have people think too much. let's say it was safer to get pox at age 6+ than to be vaccinated at age 2. this would create a prisoner's dilemma situation.
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infections are generally less manageable even at individual level. We could imagine some disease for which it is, due to conspicuous coevolutionary coincidence, not true, but we can also imagine a flying talking tank that wants to marry me.
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i assume there is an implicit argument here about which we should prefer to imagine on the basis of which is hotter
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yes, imaginary scenarios that involve sexy Bolos are a priori better use of neurotransmitters
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