You are in denial about how serious measles is:
CDC - Measles: Vaccination
As far as the vaccine goes, any medicine carries with it the risk of death. You cannot argue that it is just measles vaccine because any foreign substance you put in your body can cause a deadly reaction.
Measles can be prevented by the combination MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine. In the decade before the measles vaccination program began, an estimated 3–4 million people in the United States were infected each year, of whom 400–500 died, 48,000 were hospitalized, and another 1,000 developed chronic disability from measles encephalitis.
Yes, and the effects are also different between the two. My response is related to having the government forcing a course of action on people to prevent either one. Would HIV have spread as rapidly if people with HIV were isolated? I'm wasn't advocating for that, but you have to admit that it was discussed as a course of action.
You mean just like the risks the vaccine itself presents?
I could ask the same of you.
Moderate Problems
Seizure (jerking or staring) caused by fever (about 1 out of 3,000 doses) - Are you suggesting that someone having a seizure is not a serious problem?
Temporary pain and stiffness in the joints, mostly in teenage or adult women (up to 1 out of 4)
Temporary low platelet count, which can cause a bleeding disorder (about 1 out of 30,000 doses) - Are you suggesting that having a bleeding disorder is not a serious problem?
Severe Problems (Very Rare)
Serious allergic reaction (less than 1 out of a million doses)
Several other severe problems have been reported after a child gets MMR vaccine, including:
Deafness
Long-term seizures, coma, or lowered consciousness
Permanent brain damage
What exactly is a serious problem to you then? Does it square with the very rare complications that occur when someone contracts measles (which is also a rarity)?
If you want HIV then screw anyone bareback as often and as frequently as possible. If don't want the virus, wear a condom and not sleep with every John (or Jane) you encounter. HIV is completely preventable. Measles on the other hand is not except through vaccination.
As I already wrote and you ignored....those are 'individual' risks (not contagious).
Non-vaccination carries societal risks as well as individual.
Yes of course it squares. The side-effects are so rare that they are virtually unheard of while the benefit of vaccination greatly outweighs that minuscule risk. In order to ensure uniform application of vaccines and therefore to retain herd immunity there should not be exceptions save for medical cause. Picking and choosing which vaccines people are and aren't allowed to opt out of is a bad path to tread. Nor are these harmless diseases. For example the rubella epidemics of the early 1960's were brutal resulting in a little over 2,000 deaths in the space of a year.
Maintain herd immunity. Vaccinate or don't go to school. Even then I'm in favor of suspending welfare and other benefits to people who choose not to vaccinate.
Maybe nowadays that is true, but back in the day with blood donations, etc. It was a serious risk back then and many people that caught HIV, weren't choosing to go "bareback" as you claim.
500 (choosing the higher number) died out of 3 million (choosing the lower number). That equals 0.0167% chance of death.
48,000 hospitalized out of 3 million. That equals 1.6% chance of developing severe complications.
No, I'm not scare. Try harder.
Again, the communicability was quite different. If you are in a room with someone with measles (and you are not immunized) about 90% will end up with measles - with NO direct contact. In the same situation with a person with AIDS - sharing room, nothing else, no one will get AIDS.
I have absolutely no issue with the government taking appropriate reasonable action to prevent the spread of the disease. But you must understand that at the time, nobody knew they were infected until they showed some very drastic signs. The government intervention at the time was understanding of the disease and education to the population as things are known.
The lack of significant government intervention brought us a crossover into the blood supply as well - creating new risk groups and spread.
I am entirely for appropriate government intervention. Sometimes that would include quarantine. But way back when the AIDS crisis began - would not have helped at all. People didn't know they were sick until they were on the dying path.
Yes of course it squares. The side-effects are so rare that they are virtually unheard of while the benefit of vaccination greatly outweighs that minuscule risk. In order to ensure uniform application of vaccines and therefore to retain herd immunity there should not be exceptions save for medical cause. Picking and choosing which vaccines people are and aren't allowed to opt out of is a bad path to tread. Nor are these harmless diseases. For example the rubella epidemics of the early 1960's were brutal resulting in a little over 2,000 deaths in the space of a year.
Maintain herd immunity. Vaccinate or don't go to school. Even then I'm in favor of suspending welfare and other benefits to people who choose not to vaccinate.
Maybe nowadays that is true, but back in the day with blood donations, etc. It was a serious risk back then and many people that caught HIV, weren't choosing to go "bareback" as you claim.
You keep saying it's unheard of, but what numbers can you provide to support that stance? I posted numbers, frequency of both complications (which is many) of vaccines and the likelihood of contracting measles in the first place.
How about you support your stance with some hard data instead of repeating the same meme so we can actually review why you have that viewpoint.
Your point is only valid if everyone that's not vaccinated contracts measles. That doesn't happen as contracting measles is rare in today's time.
So basically some want to force a risk of a higher magnitude on the vast majority of people for the sake of a few.
The numbers don't pan out in favor of forcing vaccines on the extreme few that don't want it.
I didnt say anything about force.
I was giving you the facts on how vaccination and epidemics work.
Since the more that dont get vaccinated open up lots more protected people to get infected, your first sentence doesnt really make sense. That grows exponentially. These days we usually catch and control the outbreaks thru the media....people then go out and do get vaccinated or take precautions...close daycares, dont go to playdays, etc.
But like I said, the more people a disease goes thru, the more chances it will change and become more dangerous.
Also, vaccination is not a miracle cure. None are 100% effective. The vaccinated can get sick.
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