Poll: Opinion of Vaccination?
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While my heart goes out to you and your friends, it's important to realize that serious complications from vaccines are much more unlikely than dying from the actual diseases themselves. The H1N1 vaccine, for example, was associated with only 11 deaths in the US in 2009. The actual flu, on the other hand, killed about 10,000.Ironman126 said:
From your point of view it would certainly seem like the vaccine itself might be more dangerous, but statistically it's quite a different matter. That's why it's important people check the actual facts before crusading against something that saves many more lives than it takes.
I'll admit that I don't follow this issue too closely, so I really only have a passing knowledge of the controversy and why some people are against vaccinations. The way I see it, I know that some vaccinations aren't 100% vital, but I think most of them are. In my opinion, vaccinations overall are a good thing, and the benefits to children vastly outweigh the risks.
As far as I'm aware, there's no proper evidence that supports the idea that they cause autism and whatever else.
When do you get them anyway? At 2-years-old or something? I'm pretty sure autism can only start to become noticeable at that point or after in a lot of kids anyway.
When do you get them anyway? At 2-years-old or something? I'm pretty sure autism can only start to become noticeable at that point or after in a lot of kids anyway.
I never really realized that people didn't think that it was a good idea to give kids vaccines until I saw an episode of House where there was one such mother. I asked my mother about it(never forget that your mother knows EVERYTHING) and she explained that some people thought that vaccines were just to get money out of parents and other such nonsense.
Why does everything have to be a conspiracy theory? I mean come on...correlational doesn't prove causation and all that but after the polio vaccination, no more polio, after the small pox vaccination, no more small pox. I think that's suffecient evidence for me.
The only thing about vaccinations is that, at least here in the states, I've heard that there are LOTS of shots that your recommended to give your baby and they give the child several all the same time. I'd probably space that out a little more if I was a parent, but otherwise, vaccines are good.
Why does everything have to be a conspiracy theory? I mean come on...correlational doesn't prove causation and all that but after the polio vaccination, no more polio, after the small pox vaccination, no more small pox. I think that's suffecient evidence for me.
The only thing about vaccinations is that, at least here in the states, I've heard that there are LOTS of shots that your recommended to give your baby and they give the child several all the same time. I'd probably space that out a little more if I was a parent, but otherwise, vaccines are good.
Parents who do not get their children vaccines deserve to burn in hell.
Its pretty darn cheap and gives you a whole lot of immunites to potentially fatally diseases. A few bad reactions out of millions of injections is a very small risk that anyone should be willing to take for their own health.
Its pretty darn cheap and gives you a whole lot of immunites to potentially fatally diseases. A few bad reactions out of millions of injections is a very small risk that anyone should be willing to take for their own health.
anyone who argues against vaccination needs to be bitchslapped by his entire community. failure to vaccinate is irresponsibility taken to criminal levels.
Doctors are humans like anybody else though, and human beings have a long history of making mistakes (I personally have had my health put at risk by two different doctors being total dumbasses). If my doctor were to say something that other informed opinions (IE, other doctors) disagrees with, I'd be torn over who to listen to - especially over something as consequential as withholding medication from my children.Generic Gamer said:
it's not vaccinations that's the problem, it's being overly clean... seriously, fuck you Hygiene Hypothesis! let our children eat dirt!
Against the dangerous stuff, yes, which is the majority of childhood diseases but I wouldn't say absolutely everything gets an automatic pass.
That was an awsome link, thank you for opening my eyes to a hilarious program. Shame it presents itself as very biased though, just gives people who disagree with vacinations a reason not to agree with the points it makes that are trueBlackWaltz3 said:
O.T: As a british health profesional who currently works in the hospitals and previously before my training had a job caring for disabled children (mostly autistic children) I can agree that vacinees are important. For the diseases with a high mortality or disability rate it is extrememly important to vacinate your child, for others like flu or chicken-pox it is more important to vacinate when you are in a higher risk group. (This includes children, elderly and anyone imunocomprimised)
Look at it this way, if your child grows up with a problem that in the future is later found to be caused by a vacination they had as a child and they ask you "Why did you let me have that vacination?" you can say "Because evidence at the time suggested the dangers of not having it outweighed the risk and it was advised by health profesionals including the Department of health" (in the UK)
If your child grows up and gets polio and becomes crippled for life and asks you "Why didnt you let me have that vacination?" you will say "Because the man on the internet said it might have a 1 in 10000 risk of causing you harm"? Even though your risk of dying if you contract polio is 1 in 50 at a minimum? *
Which response has the most reason behind it?
*http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/polio.pdf
Im not vaccinated, and i live in Canada, where it's a free service. I see very little point in getting vaccinated as im a perfectly healthy individual without it. my other friends who have been vaccinated get sick all the time while i remain healthy, i even made out with a girl who had strep throat and i was perfectly fine the next day. I DID NOT CONTRACT IT maybe they should just make vaccines out of my blood O.O
Thanks.Maxman3002 said:
The Show is called Penn and teller's Bullsh*t and they have made a point from episode that they are very biased, but also that they're honest. It's a good show and well worth checking out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Penn_%26_Teller:_Bullshit!_episodes
