03-09-2015, 10:21 AM
(03-08-2015, 04:11 PM)J Michael Wrote:(03-08-2015, 03:24 AM)Leonhard Wrote:(03-07-2015, 08:49 PM)J Michael Wrote: Even for people who've already had measles and/or mumps and/or rubella?
No, not if they've been naturally exposed to the disease prior to the age of vaccination. Needless to say exposure parties where parents i tentionally try to get their children infected should be classified as child abuse.
Like I said, fascism comes in many guises and infects people of all faiths, even in socialist Denmark, I guess. What a pity there's no vaccine against *that*!
Quote:Or regardless of the consequences?
(03-08-2015, 03:24 AM)Leonhard Wrote: The benefits vastly outweigh the risks.
This is highly debatable, *especially* in "first world" countries where there is good sanitation and the very vast majority of children are relatively healthy and generally well-nourished.
(03-08-2015, 03:24 AM)Leonhard Wrote: Don't be ridiculous.
We've had mandatory vaccination in place in the past, part of large scale programs that managed to wipe large diseases off the face of the world.
Hmm....if you look at graphs showing the incidence of varies illnesses for which vaccines were developed you would see that many, if not all of them, were already well in decline when the vaccines were introduced. Then there's the whole phenomenon of if you "wipe out" acute illnesses you lay the foundation for deeper seated, longer lasting, more debilitating chronic diseases. That's a concept that most people blindly in love with modern western medicine are either unfamiliar with or choose to ignore. And, please don't get me wrong, modern western medicine has much to offer, but mostly or especially in the areas of emergency medicine and surgery.
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