RE: Melanie's marvelous measles
February 9, 2015 at 6:54 am
(This post was last modified: February 9, 2015 at 6:59 am by Jacob(smooth).)
(February 9, 2015 at 6:47 am)Alex K Wrote: As a hopefully dad-to-be, this scares me as much as it angers me. We can't vaccinate babies until they've reached a certain age, and until then they are at the mercy of the herd.
Yeah, you never feel fear like you feel it as a parent for your kids. You'd crawl over broken glass to spare them harm. And then this fucking nonsense endangers them!
(February 9, 2015 at 6:48 am)pocaracas Wrote:(February 9, 2015 at 6:44 am)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: This is the thing! If it was just their kids it would be a simple matter of child abuse. But it's not, they're affecting everyone else by pissing the chance for herd immunity up the wall. You often see the analogy between vaccines and seat belts, a better one would be driving drunk, it's not just you, you endanger everyone else!Isn't vaccination supposed to help ward off the bug?
And so it does. But it's not individually 100% effective, and younglings and immunocomprimised kids won't have had it. Herd immunity works even with vaccines which are only partially effective
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Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken."
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