Funny how antivaccine activists dismiss the possibility of death due to measles (~1 in 1,000) as being of little or no consequence; yet, a one in a million chance of severe reactions to a vaccine is completely unacceptable to them.
Hmmm I agree with where you are coming from, but that’s a false argument. Everyone has to be exposed to the vaccine risk, but not everyone is exposed to measles... need to multiply to 1/1000 by the probability of being exposed to measles... and if everyone *else* is vaccinated...
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And the probability of being exposed to measles increases non-linearly as the proportion of those vaccinated goes down. We need herd immunity to protect those who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons.
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Of course... but if *everyone else* vaccinated their kids, and the vaccine is 100% effective then (and only then) it is less risk to not vaccinate your one kid (as long as everyone else keeps vaccinating)... the problem with that selfish attitude is...
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So your argument is that everyone else needs to be vaccinated to protect you if you’re not. That’s actually the pro-vax argument, to vaccinate as many people as possible to protect those few people who can’t have the vaccine.
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Tsk tsk. I am (generally) in favour of vaccines... I am currently cautious w.r.t. the flu vaccine specifically, and I am therefore against mandatory annual flu vaccinations as a condition of employment (currently being considered by my wife’s employer)
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That is not a false argument and you are clearly not qualified. Stop spreading dangerous misinformation. Shut down your account. We docs are sick of it.
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