The measles vaccine is my case in point that there are problems with vaccines.
I fit the time frame but have no idea whether I got the bad one or the good one. I dont recall getting the measles but have to assume I got the bad one.
So I got the MMR shot..and still have ringing in both my ears that may or may not be due to the shot. Started about 3 days after the shot.
Thanks for posting this. This kind of stuff should be presented in high school science classes. I think it was in my day.
In before the “we should vaccinate everyone for every little thing” crowd.
Vaccines are imperfect and it’s worth having a discussion about the risks and benefits involved, but it’s important to be honest in such discussions. We have virtually wiped out most significant childhood diseases in my lifetime with vaccines.
Smallpox: gone. Polio: gone. Measles: gone. Pertussis (Whooping Cough): gone. Mumps: gone. Rubella: gone. Diphtheria: gone. Tetanus: gone. Varicella (chickenpox): gone.
Millions of lives saved. Millions saved from lifelong disability and/or disfigurement. About 1 in a million have a noteworthy reaction to a vaccine and most of those self-resolve in days or weeks. Sadly, some do suffer ill effects. But do you take a 0.00001% chance of a bad outcome to avoid a .5% chance of a bad outcome? Nearly everyone will gladly take those odds. And even now, we continue to improve vaccine safety. Just in the past couple years, flu shots that no longer carry a risk of chicken egg allergies became available.
Lots of problems with swine flu vaccine. I was in the Navy at the time, so it wasn’t optional for me.
Kidney cells were used for cultures and blood serum was used for media, both harvested from local primates and used in production. In South Africa, monkey tissue was used to amplify the Sabin oral polio vaccine.
(Which they have NOT accomplished with COVID)
They have only "sequenced" the virus, which is NOT sufficient to produce a true vaccine.