And by the way, getting treated after the fact (after stepping on a rusty nail, or after being bitten by a rabid vaxxer?), when there is an immediate heightened risk of illness is not the same as, for example, giving a Hep B shot to a newborn whose Mom is not a prostitute nor an intravenous drug user.
And then the fact remains that the people at most risk of suffering from exposure to viruses typically have other unresolved underlying conditions.
So I guess you profit off vaccine development? Thanks for outing yourself.
As with every anti-vaxxer, you express desire to wait until a condition occurs and treat it after the fact, instead of preventing it. You would prefer a child to get meningitis (with a high chance of dying or getting severe brain damage) than to vaccinate it against meningococcal disease. Vaccines prevent serious illnesses before they occur.
When I said that you had outed yourself as an anti-vaxxer, I was not saying that I had just learned that you are an anti-vaxxer. What I was saying was that you had revealed that you have the selfish, self-serving anti-science attitudes of every anti-vaxxer. You would never bother taking your child to the doctor for routine preventive care, but you'll count on everyone else taking *their* child so your child won't get sick. And I can point out the deadliness of vaccine preventable diseases all day long, but you don't care one iota about the children who die or are permanently disabled from those diseases. No, you'll still want to spout your anti-vax nonsense.
And invoking God in your anti-vaxxery? Seriously? You claimed that vaccines somehow show lack of faith in our God-given immune systems and then showed your own lack of faith by saying that you take vitamin D and zinc to "strengthen" your immune system! What, you don't have faith in your immune system to handle any challenge? And your answer to my rabies question, that you would, indeed, take the prophylaxis if you get bitten by a rabid animal also shows that you do NOT have complete faith in our natural immune system to handle all challenges.
I have to remind myself, in any discussion with an anti-vaxxer, that my main audience is not the anti-vaxxer who is impervious to any reason or evidence. It is the person who genuinely does not know, and whom I can help to educate to recognize unscientific anti-vaxxery.