Posted on 07/02/2015 7:49:16 PM PDT by Alter Kaker
SEATTLE (AP) A Washington woman died from measles in the spring the first measles death in the U.S. since 2003 and the first in the state since 1990, health officials said Thursday.
The woman lacked some of the measles' common symptoms, such as a rash, so the infection was not discovered until an autopsy, Washington State Department of Health spokesman Donn Moyer said.
This is the 11th case of measles in Washington and the sixth in Clallam County this year, Moyer said.
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You’re talking theory versus what would happen in practice, and I think we all know that if vaccines were made mandatory that whoever had the most lobby money would be on or off the list of mandatory vaccines.
I’m afraid you are striving for perfection in an imperfect world. Knowing what we do about the dangers of these diseases and the almost complete safety of vaccines, the risk/benefit ratio is clearly in favor of vaccination.
As Thomas Sowell said, there are no solutions, only tradeoffs.
And why shouldn’t we strive for perfection? You may be content with being mediocre. It is not for anyone to choose the trade-off for someone else.
If it weren’t a matter of the health of innocents, I wouldn’t care. It seems we will have to agree to disagree.
Freegards.
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