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Originally Posted by Libertine
We aren't talking about "mights" and "ifs". We are talking about hard evidence.
Some vaccinations have (extremely uncommon) adverse side effects, and the reason they're still being used is that for any random individual, the risk removed by vaccination is far greater than the risk introduced by vaccination.
Vaccinations and antibiotics are the two main reasons life expectancy in the western world has risen dramatically over the past 100 years.
Know what killed more people than Hitler, Stalin and Mao combined in the 20th century? Smallpox. Several hundreds of millions of deaths in the 20th century alone. Know what eradicated it? That's right - vaccination.
Not taking vaccinations is like smoking to avoid the risks of obesity. A decidedly daft health strategy.
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It's not uncommon. When your kids have them, the Doctors going to tell you to keep an eye on them. They may react, and give you a list of shit to watch out for.
It's that common...
The problem is... More than plenty of Americans have never taken them, and they don't have small pox or any other problems. And plenty of illegal immigrants, prob all what, 40-50 million of them, that could bring all types of problems here, mix them with each other and other non vaccinated people... but oddly enough, it doesn't happen.
Everyone knows we need some vaccines.. that isn't the argument. I still say it's a persons choice over force though, which it is currently in our Country.
And antibiotics, for to long were given out like candy pills.. it has gotten much better. Really no argument about that. To many antibiotics and your screwing yourself. Oh yeah, and antibacterial soap is washing germs off, not an actual antibiotic. Best antibody you can have is your own germs.