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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Herd immunity.

If enough hippie parents don’t vaccinate, they risk the health of all our kids.


7 posted on 11/06/2017 7:52:23 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

This idiocy always comes back on us Christian parents who decide to postpone, or not vaccinate, because of faith based reasons. You mindless goons always blame us, when the problem is open borders. My guns keep us safe. Try coming to force us into vaccinate. I will give you my address you limp wristed gutless parasite.


10 posted on 11/06/2017 8:13:49 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: TigerClaws

If the vaccine is effective,please explain how an unvaccinated person puts a vaccinated person at risk.


20 posted on 11/06/2017 9:01:46 AM PST by usmom
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To: TigerClaws

My mom didn’t vaccinate, for this very reason.

Despite the pharma industry propaganda the vaccine
does not provide complete immunity.


21 posted on 11/06/2017 9:07:23 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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Herd immunity (also called herd effect, community immunity, population immunity, or social immunity) is a form of indirect protection from infectious disease that occurs when a large percentage of a population has become immune to an infection, thereby providing a measure of protection for individuals who are not immune.[1][2] In a population in which a large number of individuals are immune, chains of infection are likely to be disrupted, which stops or slows the spread of disease.[3] The greater the proportion of individuals in a community who are immune, the smaller the probability that those who are not immune will come into contact with an infectious individual.[1]

Individual immunity can be gained through recovering from a natural infection or through artificial means such as vaccination.[3] Some individuals cannot become immune due to medical reasons and in this group herd immunity is an important method of protection.[4][5] Once a certain threshold has been reached, herd immunity gradually eliminates a disease from a population.[5] This elimination, if achieved worldwide, may result in the permanent reduction in the number of infections to zero, called eradication.[6] This method was used for the eradication of smallpox in 1977 and for the regional elimination of other diseases.[7] Herd immunity does not apply to all diseases, just those that are contagious, meaning that they can be transmitted from one individual to another.[5] Tetanus, for example, is infectious but not contagious, so herd immunity does not apply.[4]

The term herd immunity was first used in 1923.[1] It was recognized as a naturally occurring phenomenon in the 1930s when it was observed that after a significant number of children had become immune to measles, the number of new infections temporarily decreased, including among susceptible children.[8] Mass vaccination to induce herd immunity has since become common and proved successful in preventing the spread of many infectious diseases.[9] Opposition to vaccination has posed a challenge to herd immunity, allowing preventable diseases to persist in or return to communities that have inadequate vaccination rates.[10][11][12]


24 posted on 11/06/2017 9:44:20 AM PST by TigerClaws
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