When I was a child they passed around a handful of mercury for us kids to hold and play with. I remember blowing the dust off asbestos brakes when working on them. We breathed leaded gas fumes. (I actually liked the smell of burning gas.) I’m 61 and still in the most robust of health. My dad, who grew up in the Pittsburg smog died at 94. My mother is 98. Our entire house was painted with LEAD paint!
Me thinks the tiny amount of mercury in a shot is not going to hurt anybody. You should hear what my dentist has to say about the nutty people who want mercury out of fillings.
We live in a world that is amazingly clean compared to the rest of history. But we have instrumentation that can detect a few molecules of toxic substances. Those molecules are all around us, naturally occurring, and sometimes in much larger does than our medicines.
In general, people have no rational basis from which to calculate the real dangers we face. Our lives are so free from real hazards that imaginary ones catch the full focus our attention.
Kids should have a choice.
Right or left shoulder...
LOL, yep two cigars a day along with bacon and eggs killed my old grandpa - at 98
I AM worried that when we allowed Kaiser to pump all of those vaccines into our kids it was a mistake, kids are 13 and 15 and both are just slow mentally.
We used to break open old thermostats to play with the mercury. It was fun stuff to play with.