RE: Vaccination exemption in CA, personal down, medical up
December 21, 2017 at 7:56 pm
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2017 at 7:57 pm by bennyboy.)
(December 20, 2017 at 6:07 pm)Patrick33 Wrote: Joining late.
The statistics don't lie in this instance - they just don't. Thousands upon thousands of cases of polio (and other diseases) reduced through vaccinations to very few. How can that be argued against? There may be the odd case where there MAY be side affects, but, sad though that is, it is statistically negligible. I think it should be law to vaccinate your child.
My dad was involved in a car accident when I was little. He wasn't wearing a seat belt and as the car flipped he was thrown into the passenger seat whereupon the roof on the driver's side caved in. He survived - yet had he been wearing a seat belt he would have died. True story. But, that doesn't suddenly mean that I (or he) suddenly think that no one should wear seat belts and that they are potentially dangerous contraptions. It is rightly against the law not to wear seat belts in many countries. For me - this analogy works and the stats are probably similar.
This is 100% what it is. People who don't get the importance of numbers will multiply an individual anecdote like "He was thrown clear and it saved his life," so there will be like 1 million videos of this on Youtube. People who DO get it will make a little statistical explanation that will get 100 views, or maybe 100k if it's V-sauce or something.
It then appears that the issue is more balanced than it really is: "Half the people I know think vax autism is likely true, and half don't. Must be a matter of opinion, or an unresolved issue." They are completely incapable of finding the information that matters, and they won't listen to anyone who can guide them to it.
