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Deal of Death: Vaccinations

Opinion on vaccinations

  • Are vaccinations worth the risks to individuals? Overall good?

    Votes: 22 73.3%
  • Are vaccinations too risky since some people are hurt? Bad?

    Votes: 1 3.3%
  • Vaccinations should be an individual decision, without state mandate.

    Votes: 7 23.3%

  • Total voters
    30
Errr - this applies to PREMMIES you know the wee little ones born early who are monitored in any event and will stop breathing if you stand too bloody close!!

So what? If a vaccines shows danger to people then it shows danger to people... there are a number of reasons why this study could be important.
 
THIS is the "classic" presentation of Tetanus


Holy crap!! You should have told me that your dick would fall off sooner... I'm getting the vaccine today!
 
So what? If a vaccines shows danger to people then it shows danger to people... there are a number of reasons why this study could be important.

No not "people" with fully formed immune systems and respiratory drives but Premature babies that do not have fully formed, basically anything - so the results of this study, which you are attempting to show "proves" vaccines are more dangerous than the diseases they replace, is not applicable even to neonatal population let alone child or adult populations
 
bowerbird, thank you for the education on tetanus. You might think I'm an uneducated, backward person, but I am fully educated on tetanus and what it does. You think I would be making this choice without having investigated the diseases? I am fully aware of the risk. You don't need to educate me on germ theory. I have read the history all the way back to Louis Pasteur. It was part of my readings that helped me to form the decision to not get a vaccine. He was competing with other schools of thought at the time, but his school received the most endorsement. If you look into some of the other theories, they place equal emphasis on normal physiology and supporting it. Even when sick, you can support the physiology instead of attacking the virus or bacteria directly, by strengthening the body.

That goes for the rest of you in this thread. Please stop giving me heaps of research about vaccines and how they're good. I've read stuff like that a million times over, from the most negative (like staunch anti-vaccine nuts) to the most supportive. I'm not in some camp here. I have just done a bunch of reading and have decided it's not for me.

I may not be the health care worker you WANT but I am the one you NEED. That is because, like the vast majority of those in my field, I will give the patient what they need rather than what they want.

If I am cognizant, even if I am putting myself at grave risk, I can refuse treatment. The only time you get to decide for me is when I am so out to lunch from trauma that I can't even conceptualize what is happening around me.

I call BS on your authoritarian attitude. I respect that you work in a health care environment and do a lot of work, but nobody made you God. If I'm really being a fool and my life is taken, then I can accept that. I made the wilful choice to put myself at risk.

But please understand, I do not perceive this as a severe risk. I simply don't. The germ world is not menacing to me as it is to you. I see it as just a part of our natural environment. I acknowledge you have medical training and this gives you more expertise, but did you ever stop to consider that maybe your training has made you exaggerate the risks? Most people in the outside world never encounter disease the way you do in the hospital.

Maybe for you... this is urgent, because you've seen some intense situations. My life is surrounded by health and our realities are not the same.

Example - you probably would have wanted to remain in ignorance of the realities of many of these diseases - but what you NEEDED was knowledge about them

As I did above, I will debunk your theory on my ignorance right here. I am well-read on it. Like I said in a previous post, my main beef here is the notion of forced vaccinations and criminalizing refusal. We keep getting dragged back into the debate on should you/shouldn't you get a vaccine. For me that issue has been settled for a long time. My issue here right now started with Kandahar, and the implications of some who followed... which is that 1) everyone should be forcibly vaccinated against their will and beliefs, and 2) it should be criminal neglect to not vaccinate your children.

Which side of that do you fall on, bowerbird?
 

Dude, do what you want, all I am saying is that you need to accept the consequences of your decision, and keep in mind the fact that you are endangering the lives of others.
 
Incorrect. What I have been debating are people saying that vaccines should be 100% mandatory and that anybody that doesn't agree is a fear based moron endangering all of society.

I said that no one said they were 100% safe. Which no one did. Also, Kandahar says that vaccines should be mandatory for those who aren't allergic precisely because some people are allergic, and others getting vaccines will protect them better.
 
If it is left to the individual there will be more suffering and even death because the more people opt out the more risk there will be of serious outbreaks.

I remember standing in line for Polio shots in the 50s and later at school getting shots for various things and later for the Swine flu that was being called an epidemic in the making, and it turned out that only a few soldiers got the flu and only one I believe died, and more people died from the vaccine.
 
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Children are given 6 injections prior to forming a "fully developed immune system"... so, no... you are wrong.Diphtheria / Tetanus / Whooping Cough / Polio / Hepatitis B / Haemophilus influenzae type b 1 injection (INFANRIX®- hexa)Pneumococcal - 1 injection (Synflorix®)*I am also not saying that vaccines are more dangerous for a society than the disease. At this point I have to assume that you are either a liar, that you have serious reading issues or that you are attempting to purposefully misrepresent my argument. With any of the three though, I have to seriously question what type of ER nurse you are.Seriously... it is getting a tad ridiculous.
 

I said that no one said they were 100% safe. Which no one did. Also, Kandahar says that vaccines should be mandatory for those who aren't allergic precisely because some people are allergic, and others getting vaccines will protect them better.

Yes, I realize that since I have been in this debate for the entire thread of over 400 posts. I never said that anybody said that vaccines were 100% safe and my statement stands correct. I was challenging the bold portion of your statement and not the obvious part.

That is NOT what they have "only stated". I have been debating are people saying that vaccines should be 100% mandatory and that anybody that doesn't agree is a fear based moron endangering all of society.
 


Read the title of your thread. Read your initial post. :roll:

You ARE a fear-based you-know-what endangering all of society, by peddling this bull**** about autism that has no scientific basis. It only serves to make society less safe...and the most vulnerable of all are those who CANNOT be vaccinated against diseases, who essentially rely on herd immunity. You should be ashamed of yourself for deliberately making those with vaccine allergies more likely to get sick, by discouraging others from getting vaccinated.
 
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Parents smoke around their kids give them a list of health concerns that can lead to death

Yep but there is no easy way for the government to stop that. If there was, then I'd probably support it.

Ban smoking outright. Why are you not making a statement like that anyway?

Because the benefits to society of such a ban do not outweigh the costs (take a look at the war on drugs or Prohibition). The same cannot be said for mandatory vaccinations, where the cost is TINY and the benefits are large.

The issue is mandatory. Until you can justify the discrepancies regarding lack of 100% control over smoking then you do not have a valid argument against making vaccinations 100% mandatory.

Sure I do. It's a lot easier to make vaccines mandatory than it is to ban smoking. Besides, the issue is SECONDHAND smoke rather than smoking persay, and many states have indeed taken steps toward limiting this as much as they can.

Not 100% like you are suggesting...

The idea is that you add up the benefits to society of outlawing something destructive (e.g. not vaccinating your kids, smoking in public places, drinking and driving, throwing bricks off the overpass at oncoming traffic, etc). Then you add up all the costs to society of outlawing it. Depending on the relative sizes of the two columns, you could either ban it outright, restrict the behavior, or just ignore it.

So for example, mandatory vaccination is pretty easy to do, and imposes few additional costs on society. Banning smoking in one's own home is not, and imposes lots of costs on society.
 
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No. I don't know what. Would you be so kind as to actually say it? Thank you... :lol:

Whom have I discouraged from getting vaccinate again?
How does my asking a question make society less safe again?
How does posting some facts make society less safe again?

What I am ashamed of is that you bleeping bleeped a bleeping BLEEP!!! Whew! Glad I got that out... :lol:

Dude, PLEASE don't say that I should be ashamed of my actions. OH THE HORROR!
I had no idea that my words here on a debate internet site would DIRECTLY LEAD TO THE DEATH OR SICKNESS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE!!!

AAHHHH!!!

In the end, you have yet to answer why some children should die or face severe adverse reactions like brain damage or seizures that might have been perfectly fine so that others might live or not face non-life threatening symptoms from a disease that might have died from the disease. We do not operate our lives under, "what is best for society" as I have pointed out with smoking and health care costs and just how we live our lives. You ignore all that and stick to your silly insults instead. Good for you buddy...

Your first post summed up your mentality on this issue. A mentality that is hostile, oppressive, insulting and shallow. Stop posting here then, it will improve the thread dramatically.

 
Yep but there is no easy way for the government to stop that. If there was, then I'd probably support it.

And then you go and post something reasonable...

... arresting parents who are found to have smoked around children would dramatically reduce the issue.

Because the benefits to society of such a ban do not outweigh the costs (take a look at the war on drugs or Prohibition). The same cannot be said for mandatory vaccinations, where the cost is TINY and the benefits are large.

Stopping vs. Promoting. Stopping is always harder... so? We are talking about what is best for society and not about the costs. We are spending more on the war on terror than pretty much anything else in history due to a relatively small threat. 3,000 people died. Well, 50,000 die a year from smoking and nothing is done? Billions are spent on health care raising rates for all of us and nothing is done?

Sure I do. It's a lot easier to make vaccines mandatory than it is to ban smoking. Besides, the issue is SECONDHAND smoke rather than smoking persay, and many states have indeed taken steps toward limiting this as much as they can.

You are avoiding the issue. We are talking about what is best for society... not about what is easier.


And when it comes to mandatory vaccinations... I am arguing about what is best for the individual. As long as innocent children die as a result of vaccines then I will argue to my last breath that they should not be mandatory.
 
Whom have I discouraged from getting vaccinate again?

When you create a thread called "Deal of death" and you immediately launch into a tirade about how vaccines cause all sorts of horrible things (which isn't even accurate), you are discouraging people from getting vaccinations.

How does my asking a question make society less safe again?

Because your "question" is actually a statement, and a false one at that. Like if I went around asking if wearing seatbelts might cause AIDS, demanded further study into the issue, and sought to spread these lies among the general public in order to get people to stop wearing their seatbelts.

How does posting some facts make society less safe again?

Because your "facts" are actually not true.

I had no idea that my words here on a debate internet site would DIRECTLY LEAD TO THE DEATH OR SICKNESS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE!!!


Well, now you do. Too bad people don't think of the consequences of their actions before they run their mouth.

In the end, you have yet to answer why some children should die or face severe adverse reactions like brain damage or seizures that might have been perfectly fine

If you know ahead of time that a child is likely to face an allergic reaction to a vaccine, that is a special case and I already mentioned that they should be exempted.
If you have no particular reason to believe that a specific child is likely to face an allergic reaction to a vaccine, then they are far more likely to get the disease than the allergic reaction, so you go with the odds and vaccinate them.


Actually we do. Those silly examples you pointed out just crystallized my point that the government DOES often limit your ability to harm other people for the sake of your own selfishness.
 
And then you go and post something reasonable...

... arresting parents who are found to have smoked around children would dramatically reduce the issue.

But the costs would not outweigh the benefits.

Stopping vs. Promoting. Stopping is always harder... so? We are talking about what is best for society and not about the costs.

Umm who do you think is going to pick up the tab for the cost of arresting parents for smoking, convicting them, incarcerating them, and supporting their kids...not to mention all the crime that would result from the ensuing black market for tobacco? Can a similar argument be made for mandatory vaccinations? No. You cannot separate "what is best for society" from the costs, since the costs are a key determining FACTOR in what is best for society.

We are spending more on the war on terror than pretty much anything else in history due to a relatively small threat. 3,000 people died.

And that is stupid too.

Well, 50,000 die a year from smoking and nothing is done?

I would say that the government is doing quite a bit to discourage smoking. Minors can't do it, adults can't buy tobacco for minors, tobacco marketing is heavily restricted, in many states you can't smoke in some or all public places, etc. Could more be done to prevent secondhand smoke that would be helpful for society? Arguably. But many states are nearing the point of diminishing returns, where it's no longer cost-effective to pass even more restrictive laws.

You are avoiding the issue. We are talking about what is best for society... not about what is easier.

Again, those issues are not separable. If it's simple to do, then it imposes fewer costs on society that could offset the benefits.

And when it comes to mandatory vaccinations... I am arguing about what is best for the individual. As long as innocent children die as a result of vaccines then I will argue to my last breath that they should not be mandatory.

What you are arguing is neither best for society NOR the individual. At the individual level, the person will almost ALWAYS be better off with the vaccine than without it, unless there is preexisting reason to believe that they will suffer a serious allergic reaction.
 
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What I said is completely correct. Vaccines are not 100% safe. Choosing to not get vaccines is not 100% safe either. This has been the entire point of all of my posts in this thread.

That is NOT what they have "only stated". I have been debating are people saying that vaccines should be 100% mandatory and that anybody that doesn't agree is a fear based moron endangering all of society.

No, they have said some people are allergic. They cannot get vaccines or they will get sick. They rely on the herd immunity of others. It is because of this that they say others should be I'm not saying that this necessitates forcing everyone else to be vaccinated.
 

First off - your reply reminds me of the old adage that "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" which most people take as a reason for complete ignorance. It is not, it is a warning that partial knowledge of a field is dangerous and can and will lead to misinformation and mistakes. You have stated you are not a health professional and I would gather by your replies that you have garnered a lot of information from anti-vaccine disinformation sites. I am simply laying out the further knowledge from what I consider to be better and more valid sources

And that brings me to the second point - I at least am not spending my time on this for YOU.

All of these threads are linked by google. Type in Tetanus and vaccination and somewhere, it might be on page four of google, you will hit THIS thread and other people will read it. I cannot do anything about the claptrap and disinformation out there in these dangerous and self-serving anti-vaccine sites (even the blogs will remove posts that go contrary to their posited ideas) but I CAN spread as much truth as I am able, wherever I can.



I come down on the side of "it is better to have fire alarms than end up with 90% burns." Using your reasoning - Why should I ever fit fire alarms to anything? After all I have BEEN in a fire (actually it was the nurses quarters that caught on fire and there was no alarm system) and we all got out safely so why should I ever waste time and money putting in alarms?

And I do challenge that you "know" about these diseases. Until you have nursed someone with Tetanus you have no idea how horrible the disease is. NO amount of reading on the internet will prepare you for having to stand next to a patient and watch them spasm uncontrollably while you try and crank up the paralysing agents. Standing there watching the BP swing from dangerously low to stroke out any second high and not being able to do a bloody thing about it (autonomic nervous system involvement - it is the main cause of death in Tetanus cases) Unless you have heard the "whoop" of Pertussis thinking "thank god this patient is an adult" and knowing the death rate in children then you do NOT "know all about the diseases". Much of this has to be experienced to be believed
 
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When you create a thread called "Deal of death" and you immediately launch into a tirade about how vaccines cause all sorts of horrible things (which isn't even accurate), you are discouraging people from getting vaccinations.

I clearly stated more than once that the title was meant as an "Attention Grabber"...

Perhaps you could show the tirade... I seemed to have missed it. It is evident that the tirade was done by you. All you are doing is projecting...

...and vaccines do cause brain damage and death. Nothing inaccurate about that. Sorry you don't like the truth. Not my issue nor my concern.

Also:- Between 1992 and 1998, the proportion of infants placed to sleep on their stomachs declined from about 70 percent to about 17 percent.
- Between 1992 and 1998, the SIDS rate declined by about 40 percent, from 1.2 per 1,000 live births to 0.72 per 1,000 live births.
CDC - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Vaccines - Vaccine Safety

The percentages do not parallel. There is a 13% gap that has to logically be attributed to something...


The first three words of my OP were... "good or bad?" That is NOTHING like a statement.

The CDC lists adverse reactions up to and including death... that is not an issue to take lightly.
Well, to open and inquisitive people not wanting to see children die anyway...

Because your "facts" are actually not true.

"Any vaccine can cause side effects. "

Severe Problems (Very Rare)
  • Serious allergic reaction (less than 1 out of a million doses)
  • Several other severe problems have been known to occur after a child gets MMR vaccine. But this happens so rarely, experts cannot be sure whether they are caused by the vaccine or not. These include:
    • Deafness
    • Long-term seizures, coma, or lowered consciousness
    • Permanent brain damage
Vaccines: Vac-Gen/Side Effects

Well, now you do. Too bad people don't think of the consequences of their actions before they run their mouth.

Like you... I bet you aren't such a dick when talking face to face.


The issue is that it is an unknown variable. Kid takes vaccine. Kid gets brain damage. Now we know. No more vaccines... Ooops, too late.

Nice logic... :roll:

Actually we do. Those silly examples you pointed out just crystallized my point that the government DOES often limit your ability to harm other people for the sake of your own selfishness.

Nope. The government does not stop smoking. 50,000 die a year of second hand smoke. More die from lung cancer. Health rates are in the billions.
Nope. The government does not stop drinking. I forgot how many die as a result of drunk driving. People lose limbs or are in comas for this as well.

I am certainly glad to know that you think that the hundreds of thousands of people that die or are affected each year because of these issues is something that you think is silly. Says a lot about you buddy...

But the costs would not outweigh the benefits.

Maybe... maybe not.

Umm who do you think is going to pick up the tab for the cost of arresting parents for smoking, convicting them, incarcerating them, and supporting their kids...not to mention all the crime that would result from the ensuing black market for tobacco? Can a similar argument be made for mandatory vaccinations? No. You cannot separate "what is best for society" from the costs, since the costs are a key determining FACTOR in what is best for society.

If the costs of health care go down and less people die as a result... then in the short term the costs are recouped and society wins. Easy...

I would say that the government is doing quite a bit to discourage smoking. Minors can't do it, adults can't buy tobacco for minors, tobacco marketing is heavily restricted, in many states you can't smoke in some or all public places, etc. Could more be done to prevent secondhand smoke that would be helpful for society? Arguably. But many states are nearing the point of diminishing returns, where it's no longer cost-effective to pass even more restrictive laws.

You literally have no idea how many minors smoke... do you? :roll:

What you are arguing is neither best for society NOR the individual. At the individual level, the person will almost ALWAYS be better off with the vaccine than without it, unless there is preexisting reason to believe that they will suffer a serious allergic reaction.

When the individual gets brain damage or dies as a result of a vaccine... that is known as, "not being best for the individual".
 
What I said is completely correct. Vaccines are not 100% safe. Choosing to not get vaccines is not 100% safe either. This has been the entire point of all of my posts in this thread.

I didn't say that you were incorrect in making this statement... did I? Do you have something new to add because tangent is next to pointless.


They have also said that vaccines should be mandatory and that anybody that doesn't agree is a fear based moron endangering all of society. They have ALSO said what you have said... but the primary messages have been what I stated, that they should be mandatory and that if you are a fear based moron endangering all of society.

Look man, why are you even bringing this up? Your entire point is nothing but nit-picking over... pretty much nothing important at all.
 
And I do challenge that you "know" about these diseases. Until you have nursed someone with Tetanus you have no idea how horrible the disease is. NO amount of reading on the internet will prepare you for

That type of reasoning only works to a point. As a parent I can tell a non-parent that they don't really "know" what it is like to be a parent. The non-parent knows what it is like though. They can read a book or watch a movie and understand that sleepless nights and vomiting and colic can be very tough and tiring. They can understand what it is like very well. Just because a person has not been through everything does not mean that they know nothing and cannot have a valid opinion. Some people are more empathetic than others. Some people imagine better than others.

You have been in a fire. Are you going to tell me what it is really like to deal with fire though? Probably not, but you can have an opinion. The issue comes when people with no experience want to tell others with experience that they know more than they do. We are not saying that we know more than you... just that we know enough to know how crappy said disease can be and make a knowledgable decision regarding it. I don't have to be shot with a gun in order to know how bad that would be. i don't need to have held the hand of a person with tetnus to know how bad that would be either...
 
I didn't say that you were incorrect in making this statement... did I? Do you have something new to add because tangent is next to pointless.

You have contradicted my statements several times. People have been pointing out the safety of vaccines to you. I don't think that they should be forced or that only stupid people are against them, but to be quite frank, I think the evidence that you're brought up against vaccines is well... bull****.


And they never said that everyone should have to get vaccines. People with allergies or a significant chance of bodily harm from a vaccine would not have to take it. That is what they said. I don't agree with it, but no one calls for every last person getting a vaccine, which is what you claimed.

Look man, why are you even bringing this up? Your entire point is nothing but nit-picking over... pretty much nothing important at all.

You and Temporal have made a pretty vigorous case against vaccines. Even if I'm not supporting legally mandated vaccinations, that does not take away from my view that the misinformation peddled by people like Jenny McCarthy has led to a lot of unnecessary suffering and death. We are seeing more measles, whooping cough, and other preventable diseases. I see this as wrong and in need of being combated.
 
Dude, do what you want, all I am saying is that you need to accept the consequences of your decision, and keep in mind the fact that you are endangering the lives of others.

Every action has consequences. That's karma.

I don't agree that people are predestined to get sick because of me. It's a possibility, sure, but you can't predict the future.
 

Sorry are you suggesting that there is a prevention for SIDS and the medical field does not want to enact it? Have you EVER had to resuscitate a baby? Do you realise that when a SIDS baby is brought into ED, even if it is blue and in rigor mortis we will resuscitate it!! Not for the poor dead baby but to give the parents the comfort that we tried

No-one can go through that an NOT look for ways to reduce the rate of SIDS, and believe me if there were a link we would be desperately trying to find solutions.

You decide there is a 13% gap and just slide vaccines in there - on what basis? That 13% could be caused a range of factors from congenital abnormality through to toxic fumes from cleaning agents

As to your contention that we should not vaccinate because we cannot ensure that there will never be an adverse outcome from vaccination - well that is a specious and spurious argument - by that criteria you should never take ANY medications including vitamin tablets and you should definitely never get into a car!!
 

Your assumption would be incorrect but my guess is that you don't care and will keep thinking what you think about me.

It's perfectly possible that someone has read up on this from many different angles and come down with an opinion that is different than yours.

Also, I don't have to be a health professional to know my own body. In fact, I know way more about it than you do. I've lived with it for more than 30 years now. I know what works and what doesn't; and what is likely to work and what isn't. I do not believe a vaccine is necessary as part of my healthy lifestyle. This is my educated decision. Take it or leave, IDC.


I only read peer reviewed sources or sources that are through trusted institutions. People like you can't seem to stand that there is counter-information out there to the hubris of your practice. You act like your medicine is foolproof when it's not. No medicine is without side effects, and sometimes they are not known until years later. The government was spraying children daily with 100% deet in the 50's because it was deemed safe by doctors, and now we wouldn't dream of doing that.

I do not think that your field is so infallible that I should hand over all my power and personal responsibility to you. Even if you think you are doing something good, it may not be in my best interest to do it. Why is this so difficult for you to accept?

I encourage google searchers to come to this page. I'm representing a perfectly valid side of this argument.

I come down on the side of "it is better to have fire alarms than end up with 90% burns."

You're dodging the question.

Are you in favor of forced, mandatory vaccination? It's a yes or no question.


No matter how our experiences differ, you do not have the right to force me to get vaccinated against my will.

Bolded and underlined for emphasis, since it seems to continually fall on deaf ears. Are you even aware of the limits of your powers and privileges as a nurse? You act like you're in control of public health when you're just one human being on planet earth with one view. I can just see the hubris coming off your posts. You think because you went to med school that you get to make the call? I don't ****ing think so.
 

You ARE aware are you not that when a poster descends into ad hominems they have effectively lost the argument.

So, you claim to have peer reviewed papers from trusted sources on vaccination - then it is time to put up the evidence. To be fair to you I will narrow the field and use Tetanus or the tdap vaccine or a vaccine of your choice.

Come on, convince me, and this time without the Ad homs, that I am wrong and you are right
 
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