YOu guys forget that when teh smallpox vaccine was perfected the goal was to wipe it our worldwide.
The last holdouts were some superstitious people in villages in India.
Unfortunately and fortunately for them, the last few of em were held down and forced to have the vaccine.
But, is smallpox a problem anymore? no.
also:
Vaccines have eliminated smallpox and have nearly eliminated other infections, such as polio and measles, that were once common childhood scourges in the United States. Despite this success, it is important for health care practitioners to continue to vaccinate children. Many of the diseases prevented by vaccination are still present in the United States and remain common in other parts of the world. These diseases can spread rapidly among unvaccinated children, who, because of the ease of modern travel, can be exposed even if they live in areas where a disease is not common.
No vaccine is 100% effective and 100% safe. A few vaccinated children fail to become immune, and a few develop side effects. Most often, the side effects are minor, such as pain at the injection site, an itchy rash, or a mild fever. Very rarely, there are more serious problems. Vaccines are continuously undergoing improvements to ensure safety and effectiveness. Recent improvements include the use of acellular pertussis (DTaP), which has a much lower chance of causing side effects than the previously used whole-cell pertussis (DPT) vaccine, and the use of an inactivated, injectable polio vaccine (IVP) instead of the previously used oral polio vaccine. The oral polio vaccine, which is made of a live, weakened virus, can cause polio if the weakened virus mutates, which happens once in every 2.4 million children. Although this is an extremely small chance, it led doctors in the United States to completely switch to the injectable polio vaccine. Febrile seizures (seizures that are triggered by a fever) have occurred in about 3 in 10,000 children after receiving the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine. Although the public press has reported concerns that the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine may produce autism, scientific evidence shows that this does not happen.
Here's all the vaccinations most of us have had:
Yes, there will be complications in some people. Does that mean vaccination should be eradicated?
I believe that would be absurd.
refuse your vaccinations if you want to, but be responsible as well and stay out of the public places if you choose to go that route.
It's pretty simple.
p.s Michael, feel free to live in your topsy turvy world of alternative news and black ops projects....ooooooo scary stuff. lol.
I on the other hand will live in the larger, much more inviting REAL world where the majority of us live good lives and don't fear our governments or our police or health care providers.
I gotta say, I sorta feel sorry for people that live with that state of mind where everyone is out to get them. What a strange existence that must be.
Coconuts. Bananas. Mangos. Rice. Beans. Water. It's good.
If they make getting the vaccine mandatory here in Mass. (where having health insurance is also mandatory... unless you're a LEGAL immigrant, in which case they will not subsidize your insurance if you're poor, so you're not required to buy coverage), I will get pretty pissed. Far more important to get a pneumonia shot.
