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Opie_taylor
16y ago
Maybe he just wants to sterilize them with the vaccines? Wow - that was an incredibly dumb thing for him to say, given some of the third world's beliefs about vaccination.
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Opie_taylor
16y ago
The interesting thing is that no one has discussed whether saving people who would die from a disease is good for the herd. By vaccinating everyone, we are holding back the evolution of our species, which in the long term, may end up being
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Opie_taylor
16y ago
Actually, DDT was more helpful in eradicating malaria. Then it was banned - possibly by junk science, but I think the jury is still out on that.
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Opie_taylor
16y ago
Your argument implies that the people that don't vaccinate their children are consciously inimical to their health, when the fact is that the parents are trying to do whats best for their children. Heck, sixty years ago, the majority did no
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Opie_taylor
16y ago
And we all know what assume does.
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Opie_taylor
16y ago
If vaccination really works, then it's only the unvaccinated that will be affected.
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Opie_taylor
16y ago
That would depend on your chances of contracting the disease. If there were 0% chance of you contracting the disease, then there would be a disincentive to take the vaccine- it would actually raise your chances of dying.
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16y ago
Charge a $5 tax per trade on stocks held less than 24hours. That would slow the volatility of the stock market quite a bit. We should probably have a speculation tax on commodities too, to quieten the wild swings in prices we sometimes se
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Opie_taylor
16y ago
One word: Apple It's feasible.