Ok, wow. I step away for a couple of days and the thread explodes, mostly due to one certain derper within our midst. Not naming names here, but if you come in spouting this 'vaccines are bad' garbage, you might find the guilty party when you look in your mirror.
Yes, rates for several different diseases and conditions and disorders have gone up as vaccine dependence has gone up. This is NOT because of the vaccine, but because of better diagnosis of those conditions. Kids are just as likely to be autistic or have ADHD in the middle of some African refuge camp as they are here, but since they lack good medical resources, their psych condition isn't going to be diagnosed and they aren't going to get a vaccine. So I can see where the correlation comes from, but it's hardly something we should emulate.
Might also benefit you to pay attention to what happens to groups of people who collectively reject vaccines. Surprise surprise, they get sick. Just ask Kenneth Copeland about this one: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy...cines.html
Here's the other scary thing: if youre vaccinated but everyone else around you isn't, you might want to move. Herd immunity works against you and if everyone else around you is sick with a germ that you had a vaccine for, well, even the best immune system isn't going to be able to keep up with that many pathogens coming at them all at once.
Yes, rates for several different diseases and conditions and disorders have gone up as vaccine dependence has gone up. This is NOT because of the vaccine, but because of better diagnosis of those conditions. Kids are just as likely to be autistic or have ADHD in the middle of some African refuge camp as they are here, but since they lack good medical resources, their psych condition isn't going to be diagnosed and they aren't going to get a vaccine. So I can see where the correlation comes from, but it's hardly something we should emulate.
Might also benefit you to pay attention to what happens to groups of people who collectively reject vaccines. Surprise surprise, they get sick. Just ask Kenneth Copeland about this one: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy...cines.html
Here's the other scary thing: if youre vaccinated but everyone else around you isn't, you might want to move. Herd immunity works against you and if everyone else around you is sick with a germ that you had a vaccine for, well, even the best immune system isn't going to be able to keep up with that many pathogens coming at them all at once.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama