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To: Secret Agent Man
It is obvious you really don't know very much about the larger picture. If vaccines "don't work all that well," what became of smallpox? Polio? Diptheria?

How about rabies vaccine? Get rabies and take it, you live. Don't take it, you die. Then there's tetanus. How many cases of that have you heard about lately?

Obviously vaccines as active agents will have a certain risk, tiny but greater than zero. So much is true for any medicine or treatment whatsover. If you want to avoid 100% of that risk fine, just give up on all of medicine whatsoever, and good luck to you.

It's fine to bloviate opinions from the fringe but I worry some fairly naive person may read your rants, not have the background to see it for what it is, and maybe make a very bad decision as a result. Maybe that possibility doesn't bother you though.

71 posted on 02/15/2012 2:52:53 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard

Where did I say that all vaccines are worthless? I didn’t.

Where did I say all vaccines are equally risky? I didn’t.

Polio and smallpox infections were already decreasing steadily before the vaccines, you can check that out in the data. Polio infections went up after the first vaccines because the vaccines themselves gave kids polio. Batches of the polio vaccine gave polio to the kids. In the first couple years polio went UP because of one of the vaccines. Read your history.

As for rabies, it is not given to everyone as part of the standard vaccination schedule. It’s only to people under specific circumstances. Thus a rabies vaccine is not given as part of a “herd immunity” strategy, it’s given because a particular person is exposed to a particular potential virus.

I have no problem with people who decide to take vaccines. I also have no problem if they have determined a vaccine, one or several or all of them, to be too risky for themselves to take. Why do you have a problem with people who don’t decide the way you do? None of the vaccines are without risk? Who are you to say one person’s assessment of risk to themselves has to be yours?

And how happy are you that government gives itself and pharma companies immunity from prosecution if under “emergencies” there are severe injuries or deaths from vaccines whipped up quickly, or for experimental vaccines, forced upon or voluntarily taken by people? You can check the federal emergency plans for biohazard problems and just about every state’s plans and there are no repercussions at all to the governments or the drug companies for such things.


85 posted on 02/15/2012 3:11:15 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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