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Correction: they hurt us all.
by jfb 14y ago
Correction: they hurt us all.
- JoeAltmaier 14y agoIndirectly I suppose. How does my sick neighbor directly hurt me?
- jfb 14y agoBy decreasing herd immunity, they're raising the chance that a given disease will become endemic, and that others, particularly the young or immunosuppressed, will catch said disease.
- amalcon 14y agoVaccines aren't 100% reliable, so your sick neighbor has a (small) chance of infecting you.
- zacharycohn 14y agoTwo obvious and immediate ways. 1) From the article: "That means far more students are coming in contact with peers who are unvaccinated—a serious risk, since vaccines are not 100 percent effective." 2) Increasing taxes to deal with the huge extra onslaught of people getting sick.
- JoeAltmaier 14y agoScare tactics. Vaccinations are nearly 100% effective.
- jfb 14y agoVaccines also decay in efficacy. When was your last pertussis booster?
- zacharycohn 14y ago"Nearly." So lets say they're 99% effective. 100 people = 1 person. 1000 people = 10 people. 8.2 million people (the population of NYC) = 82,000 people. That's a non trivial number, and that's just for one city.
- kscaldef 14y agoTFA: "Herd immunity occurs when a few unvaccinated children are protected by the fact that almost everyone around is vaccinated and therefore cannot infect them. It's important for those for whom vaccines have not worked, those who have immune problems, or those who cannot be vaccinated due to specific health risks"
- sliverstorm 14y agoAdditionally, vaccines are not 100% effective- think of them as conferring greatly improved resistance, rather than total immunity. Herd immunity helps add that last few %.
- rdtsc 14y agoPretty simple. You take your newborn baby to a doctor's office. Another older child is there as well who has not been vaccinated and is sick. He gets your newborn baby sick.