CL, I wish more people thought like you do. I think we fundamentally disagree on a lot of things but I could say the same thing--that people need to MYOB.
I think vaccination is a very complicated issue because it affects the population as a whole. The anti-vax movement is based on patently false rhetoric, and that is backed up with verifiable, repeatable evidence to the contrary, that's the frustrating part. We can't mind our business because what our neighbor does has a direct and potentially profound effect on us.
Poliomyelitis was *this* close to being eradicated and wiped off the face of the map in India back in the late 90s, and this sort of false information caused a rebound of the virus. People were claiming that Big Government wanted to inject everyone with a substance that made you sterile, so people quit getting the vaccine. If anyone cares to see a brief summary of what happened, it's an interesting story.
https://www.slideshare.net/COREGroup1/me...nda-biswas
I think vaccination is a very complicated issue because it affects the population as a whole. The anti-vax movement is based on patently false rhetoric, and that is backed up with verifiable, repeatable evidence to the contrary, that's the frustrating part. We can't mind our business because what our neighbor does has a direct and potentially profound effect on us.
Poliomyelitis was *this* close to being eradicated and wiped off the face of the map in India back in the late 90s, and this sort of false information caused a rebound of the virus. People were claiming that Big Government wanted to inject everyone with a substance that made you sterile, so people quit getting the vaccine. If anyone cares to see a brief summary of what happened, it's an interesting story.
https://www.slideshare.net/COREGroup1/me...nda-biswas
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