RE: So It Seems the Anti-Vax Crowd
February 10, 2015 at 3:57 pm
(This post was last modified: February 10, 2015 at 3:58 pm by SteelCurtain.)
(February 10, 2015 at 12:43 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: I don't like Big Pharma. I don't like that prescription-only pharmaceutical products are advertised on TV like tonka trucks and fast food. I don't like that they put a price tag on peoples lives by inflating the cost of necessary, live-sustaining prescription medications. But if the choice is between funding something I don't like or watching thousands of people unnecessarily die from preventable illnesses, I'll take the people not dying.
I just think he needs to realize that conjecture like "if you get vaccinated, you're not using your immune system as much and maybe this is why people are more sickly than ever" only gives ammunition to people who need it in order to continue to have a "personal objection" to vaccinating their children and therefore challenging herd immunity. He needs some data to back that up.
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