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years later House is still as relevant as he ever was
I wasn’t vaccinated and never got sick so
And I swam and didn’t drown.
Anecdotes aren’t evidence. The reason YOU specifically didn’t get sick is because of something called Mass Immunity.
That means that since everyone ELSE is vaccinated (you’re welcome), there’s nowhere for the virus to establish a hold.
That mass immunity is the only thing that keeps people who CANNOT vaccinate—like the immunocompromised—from catching it.The second that people stop vaccinating, that immunity disappears and the disease resurges, as is clear from the fact that the US is currently experiencing an epidemic of a disease that was projected to become extinct in our lifetimes.
Get immunized. There’s no reason not to.
Considering that there’s a whole host of people in my age range who weren’t vaccinated enough (even I was missing the second dose of MMR until recently) getting the measles and the mumps I think it’s ridiculous that we’re arguing over a life and death situation. Literally, do you want to live or die?
Also, even if you weren’t vaccinated and never got sick—at least not visibly—that doesn’t preclude the possibility that you picked up a virus and passed it on without knowing it.
Maybe you had…oh, let’s say measles. But you had no symptoms. Or maybe you had a fever, or sore eyes, or a harsh dry cough, but that was it. But nothing that said anything was seriously wrong. And in the meantime, you went about your business. Maybe you waited for a bus with an old man, or shared an aisle at the store with a pregnant woman and her wailing one-year-old, or attended a party with your friends.
And the disease you didn’t know you had? That passed on to the people you met, or to people that they met. The disease you didn’t know you had was passed to a friend at that party, and she passed it to her mother and father, they passed it to their workmates, and now two offices are sick with your measles. The old man you saw at the bus stop? He got pneumonia as a result of the measles you passed to him. The pregnant woman from the store? She miscarried. Her baby, who was too young to be vaccinated? She developed encephalitis and died.
You’re not the only one who’s being protected by your vaccination. You’re protecting everyone else as well. That’s the fucking POINT of vaccination.
In fact, asymptomatic people are the most dangerous of plague vectors. They’re invisible.
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Anonymous asked: Vaccines have been proven numerous times in court to cause mercury poisoning and autism. N u m e r o u s. Google it.
yo i fucking study health science for a living so you’re about to get some science on your ignorant ass
- Vaccines cause mercury poisoning? what you’re referring to is called the Thiomersal Controversy and has been extensively discussed in sceintific circles. Thiomersal was an organomercury compound that has since been phased out of production of vaccines for small children because of baseless public fear. Thiomersal originally made its way into vaccines in the early 1930s and has performed well in practice and posed toxicity so low as to be considered negligible. Mercury, like all chemical compounds, acts differently upon being bonded with differing elements. The notoriety that mercury has in today’s society stems from the mercury poisonings that resulted from children playing the element in mercury thermometers, but what many do not know is that is a different form of mercury than was used in vaccines. Ethylmercury is found in vaccines and has been proven by testing to be significantly less toxic than methylmercury (in fact in one study, five daily doses of ethylmercury in lab rats for 190 days produced no significant changes in the rats). So unfortunately, you’re wrong on the mercury poisoning front. (source, source, source)
- Vaccines cause autism? This is honestly the one that gets me most riled up. First, here are a million and half scientific articles that are easily at your disposal that show that there is really no scientific basis between the correlation of children having autism and children being vaccinated. And second, autism is not some horrible, life-shattering disease that needs cured. First of all, there is a whole spectrum of autism and autism-related disorders, so making generalizations about it really is impossible. However, people with autism are amazing and wonderful and though it may take some time to adjust to interacting with people with autism in a social setting, they are no less of a person just because you don’t know how to treat them like one. I can’t speak on this without getting emotional and angry, so I’m just going to leave you with this. Why is it do you think that you believe your child having autism is worse than them dying from a completely preventable disease?
- HERD IMMUNITY IS AMAZING AND SOMETHING WE AS A POPULATION NEED SO VACCINATE YOUR DAMN CHILDREN (link). Honestly, it’s so important that it’s one of the first things that health science majors learn about and any person who has ever spent time in the health sciences fields will bring it up almost immediately in discussions about vaccines.
So to sum all of this information up, you are an ignorant person who cares more about promoting your fear-mongering agenda than actually protecting your children.
