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our family doctor fully supports this as a smart choice I expect he knows less about it than you do. To you, he says this is a smart choice. To the people who
by EliRivers 10y ago
our family doctor fully supports this as a smart choice
I expect he knows less about it than you do. To you, he says this is a smart choice. To the people who just get them all at once, he says that's the smart choice. As a general rule of thumb, doctors don't actually know the current status of vaccination knowledge; especially "family doctors". So long as you're just taking them, he'll tell you whatever you need to hear.
Anyway, lets look at this: "so, an intelligent person would try to space out, don't you agree?"
Let's imagine a situation where there is, in any given week, a 90% chance of catching each of five lethal diseases. There is a vaccine available for each; taking them all at once presents a 1% chance of death. So in this case, spacing out the vaccines is a stupid thing to do. Where this is going is that without more context and information and actually looking at the numbers, the statement "so, an intelligent person would try to space out" is at best meaningless feelgood nonsense and at worst dangerous.
If we gather the actual numbers, we find that the risk from these toxins of which you speak is vanishingly small (considerably less than, for example, driving somewhere) and thus spacing out the vaccines is not something an intelligent person would do. You probably put the child at higher risk of death from the extra trips to the doctor; do you drive there, or cross roads to get there?
Additionally, unspecified "toxins" are not necessarily cumulative. It's quite possible that they have no effect on each other, and no effect on the ability of the host to deal with them. Is that the case here? Do you know? Are you practising evidence-based decision making? This is your child's life, so you owe it to them to do it properly.