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Dangerous for pregnant women IIRC. And can cause complications later in life, afaik. Either he shakes it off, feeling confirmed in his pov. Or he suffers miser

Dangerous for pregnant women IIRC. And can cause complications later in life, afaik. Either he shakes it off, feeling confirmed in his pov. Or he suffers miserably. Both are no outcomes I wish.

ahoka 8y ago
Apparently - like other herpes viruses - the virus remains inactive after recovery and can resurface at older age. I had chickenplox as a child, ouch. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingles https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingles
cm2187 8y ago
I am not an anti-vaccer, but that doesn't mean I should attack them disingenuously. I don't think that they claim that they do not need those vaccines because they cannot catch the underlying disease. I understand that they claim that some vaccines are causing more harm than the disease they are attempting to prevent. Now I don't think they are right, I believe the harm caused by those vaccines is orders of magnitude less than the absence of vaccine, and I believe parents should be comfortable taking the small risk than their kid may have a bad reaction to the vaccine over the much greater risk of complications from the underlying disease. But I think claiming that an anti-vax caught a disease proves that he is wrong is disingenous. In fact according to wikipedia [1] the vaccine is 70% to 90% effective, so he may himsef have been vaccinated for all I know. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varicella_vaccine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varicella_vaccine
manicdee 8y ago
He’s not an anti-vaxxer. He’s protesting the policy of not allowing children into school if they haven’t had a chickenpox vaccination. There are different medical opinions on this: IMHO since a private chicken pox vaccination costs upwards of £100 in the UK, I can understand the public health system bias towards not supporting mandatory vaccinations. One could view a policy of mandatory chickenpox vaccination as a corruption of government by the drug companies.

Dangerous for pregnant women IIRC. And can cause complications later in life, afaik. Either he shakes it off, feeling confirmed in his pov. Or he suffers miserably. Both are no outcomes I wish.

ahoka 8y ago

Apparently - like other herpes viruses - the virus remains inactive after recovery and can resurface at older age. I had chickenplox as a child, ouch. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingles https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingles

cm2187 8y ago

I am not an anti-vaccer, but that doesn't mean I should attack them disingenuously. I don't think that they claim that they do not need those vaccines because they cannot catch the underlying disease. I understand that they claim that some vaccines are causing more harm than the disease they are attempting to prevent. Now I don't think they are right, I believe the harm caused by those vaccines is orders of magnitude less than the absence of vaccine, and I believe parents should be comfortable taking the small risk than their kid may have a bad reaction to the vaccine over the much greater risk of complications from the underlying disease. But I think claiming that an anti-vax caught a disease proves that he is wrong is disingenous. In fact according to wikipedia [1] the vaccine is 70% to 90% effective, so he may himsef have been vaccinated for all I know. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varicella_vaccine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varicella_vaccine

manicdee 8y ago

He’s not an anti-vaxxer. He’s protesting the policy of not allowing children into school if they haven’t had a chickenpox vaccination. There are different medical opinions on this: IMHO since a private chicken pox vaccination costs upwards of £100 in the UK, I can understand the public health system bias towards not supporting mandatory vaccinations. One could view a policy of mandatory chickenpox vaccination as a corruption of government by the drug companies.