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.
Wait until Bydum’s Illegal’s hit the US, TB, Ebola, Dengue Fever, Black Plague, NO Vaccines.
Your post #6: Thanks for injecting sanity into this emotional topic. And I agree 100%.
Actually as an exception, polio is not gone, much due to a mistake in Africa
2018: Every year, hundreds of people across Africa are still being infected with circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus, which can infect people in areas where there is only partial vaccination. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/polio-outbreaks-congo-threaten-global-eradication
2020. Every year, hundreds of people across Africa are still being infected with circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus, which can infect people in areas where there is only partial vaccination.- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/world/africa/polio-africa-eradicated.html
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.
Thank God, yet antivaccers I have heard lump all vaccines together as evil.