People who come up with these anti-vaccine rants generally cannot do math.
Let’s see, here’s a disease (to use some hypothetical numbers) that I have a 1 in 3 chance of catching and a 1 in 10 chance of dying if I get it.
In the other hand is a vaccine that provides 99% immunity, but with a 1 in 10,000 chance of suffering a major side effect.
If I don’t take the vaccine, I have a 1 in 33 chance of dying.
If I do get vaccinated, I have the aforementioned 1 in 10,000 chance of being severely negatively affected, with some significantly smaller chance of death.
Let’s see, which bet should I take? The 1 in 33 chance, or the 1 in 10,000 chance?
Keep these people away from Vegas.
That’s not to say that the comparative risks are always thoroughly known in advance. The swine flu, to date, doesn’t seem to be much of a muchness.
A reasoned post by a voice of sanity. Very well said and explained.
The correlation between winter-season illnesses, such as influenza and rhinoviruses, and a lack of Vitamin D-3 is becoming more prevalently known in medical fields.
My family has been taking 2000 I.U. of vitamin D-3 each day for the past 8 months. I’ve been taking it for a year-and-a-half. So far so good. In the past I’ve received flu shots and contracted the flu anyway. This is the first time in years that I haven’t had the flu and been free of rhinoviruses, too.
The vitamin D treatment seems to be working for us and there are no side effects we’ve noticed.
Thanks for the math lesson. You’re absolutely right.
As for me, I tried to get the shot and was denied. Not in a high risk group.
On the contrary, send them all to Vegas! I have some investments there that rely on gamblers taking it in the shorts. I need these kinds of people!
C'mon folks, split those 10s! Call with your pair of 8s! Ride it all on a rolled 3!
Let’s see........it’s none of your business. How about that? Take the vaccine if it makes you feel ‘safer’ or ‘more immune’ but don’t disparage people because of healthy suspicions. So self righteous, so smart....go for it.
It's alot worse than your statements suggest. That ingrained ignorance affects all aspects of their lives, as well as everyone else's.
The are totally lacking or seriously deficient in all the sciences.
They believe climate should be constant with no extremes, bluebirds and flowers year-round.They are unable to grasp that the only planet with a constant climate is a dead planet.
The functional idiots all vote.
They elect other idiots like themselves.
Over and over.
Individual human being are each unique; responding to illnesses and vaccines, allergies and cancinogens differently. There is no medication treatment or therapy that wiil affect them all the same; or even predictably.
Those people may, if hammered enough times, realize that. What they may never accept is the rational judgement that because 0.50% of the genetic deficients react badly to a vaccine, the other 99.50% of humanity should not be denied its benefits.
Remember Star Wars? It was 'only' 80% effective, so everyone loses...
You better stay away from Vegas if you are going to use hypothetical numbers when gambling.