If vaccines are so great and you got your kid vaccinated, why are you so concerned that other peoples kids get shots? I mean vaccines are protecting your kid, right? Right??right???
Vaccines only work through herd immunity. A vaccine allows your body to retain memory of how to fight the particular virus should you come in contact with it. However a small percent of people will not benefit from a vaccine and could become a carrier for an outbreak. Vaccines give your body a better chance of fighting the virus, but the virus can still get a foothold if you have enough exposure.
So because a) Vaccines are not a 100% cure and have never made a claim to be and b) Vaccines dont work on some people and those people depend on herd immunity... It is important that everyone gets the vaccine. Vaccines only work by mass immunity.
You can believe vaccines don't work, even though there is overwhelming proof that they do.
You cant say i got the shot so who cares if others don't. That is not how the technology works. Vaccines work by preventing a foothold in the masses.
You can believe vaccines don't work, even though there is overwhelming proof that they do.
You are using the word vaccines as though they are all the same. The safety of modern vaccines should be measured independently from the safety of the polio vaccine for instance.
Also you're not accounting for a cumulative effect. Some of the things in vaccines could be harmful in higher dosages. With the increase in the total number of vaccines being given to any one person this cumulative effect may be a more serious issue than it once was.
I 100% agree that all vaccines are not equal. Any vaccine for a disease that is not deadly AND easily transmitted by sitting next to someone should not ever be required. Chicken pox, HPV, etc are all bull shit. Polio, MMR, and a very select few others are fine. Even tetanus is not communicable in a way that immunization should be required. We are definitely requiring way too many now.
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voatHatesTheFirst ago
Never gotten a satisfactory answer to this.
If vaccines are so great and you got your kid vaccinated, why are you so concerned that other peoples kids get shots? I mean vaccines are protecting your kid, right? Right?? right???
Not relevant to this OP, but still.
Oltima ago
Vaccines only work through herd immunity. A vaccine allows your body to retain memory of how to fight the particular virus should you come in contact with it. However a small percent of people will not benefit from a vaccine and could become a carrier for an outbreak. Vaccines give your body a better chance of fighting the virus, but the virus can still get a foothold if you have enough exposure.
So because a) Vaccines are not a 100% cure and have never made a claim to be and b) Vaccines dont work on some people and those people depend on herd immunity... It is important that everyone gets the vaccine. Vaccines only work by mass immunity.
You can believe vaccines don't work, even though there is overwhelming proof that they do.
You cant say i got the shot so who cares if others don't. That is not how the technology works. Vaccines work by preventing a foothold in the masses.
elcob32 ago
You are using the word vaccines as though they are all the same. The safety of modern vaccines should be measured independently from the safety of the polio vaccine for instance.
Also you're not accounting for a cumulative effect. Some of the things in vaccines could be harmful in higher dosages. With the increase in the total number of vaccines being given to any one person this cumulative effect may be a more serious issue than it once was.
SquarebobSpongebutt ago
I 100% agree that all vaccines are not equal. Any vaccine for a disease that is not deadly AND easily transmitted by sitting next to someone should not ever be required. Chicken pox, HPV, etc are all bull shit. Polio, MMR, and a very select few others are fine. Even tetanus is not communicable in a way that immunization should be required. We are definitely requiring way too many now.