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> Anti-vaxxers think that vaccines are harmful (or useless). Vaccines are harmful; it's just that the positive effects vastly shadow the negative effects in th

• atemerev 9y ago
  You are technically correct (everything is harmful, and vaccine application is probably associated with some amount of micromorts — but so is, say, getting up from the bed). However, vaccines are very safe (safer than many everyday activities), and negate much more micromorts. Thus, I believe that your technically correct appeal doesn't contribute anything useful to this particular discussion.
  • saiya-jin 9y ago
    In same vein of logic, neither does yours. People who have these comments in discussions with hundreds of posts must have either bad day or some deeper issues. Had a colleague, he took a rabies shot (X-th in his life) and got 1:3,000,000 strong reaction from which he directly died. Feel free to explain to his small kid some micromorts crap. FYI it didn't change my opinion on vaccines, fiancee is a doctor and keeps me updated on usual stuff (tetanus, tick-transmitted stuff, hep a+b and some odd stuff if required for vacations). But it makes you think how rare those reactions really are.