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>Immunization though, is a matter of public health, and my patience for precious fools on a mission is precisely 0 when it could hurt people I care about. Aren
by papadog 8y ago
>Immunization though, is a matter of public health, and my patience for precious fools on a mission is precisely 0 when it could hurt people I care about.
Aren't the people you care about vaccinated?
- creato 8y agoVaccines aren't 100% effective. Google herd immunity.
- ar0 8y ago> Aren't the people you care about vaccinated? It is not that easy. Some people cannot be vaccinated, for example measles vaccination isn't licensed for babies younger than 6 months AFAIK. So they will still be at risk from others who could have gotten vaccinated but didn't.
- papadog 8y agoThat's a bit of an edge case.
- rincebrain 8y agoA major benefit of herd immunity is to help with the edge cases - people who cannot, or should not, be vaccinated, but would be in danger from these infections should they be exposed.
- amanaplanacanal 8y agoVaccinations are not 100% effective, and some people cannot be vaccinated.
- papadog 8y agoThe threat of disease isn't news, yet the constant propaganda against anti-vaxers is. People got exposed to measles in the past and the vast majority were fine. You can only get measles once and the odds of dying of measles is akin to the annual odds of choking to death.
- rincebrain 8y agoThe threat of disease is news when we've reduced the risk of it occurring so much that a great many people have never actually seen a case of it, so effectively 0 risk has suddenly become nonzero for anyone who does not have immunity.