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Immunizations/Vaccinations

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How do you stand on immunizations/vaccinations?

  • For.

    Votes: 50 84.7%

  • Against.

    Votes: 3 5.1%

  • Indifferent/Other.

    Votes: 6 10.2%
  • Total voters
    59
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muffler dragon;1114160; said:
I am of the mindset that the human body CAN and DOES poses a greater defense to diseases than synthetics. This is a difference in perspective; not a lack of such.
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I didn't think the polio vaccine was synthetic. I'm no biologist, but I thought it was just a weakend form of the virus. Therefore, it's just giving the human body a cheat sheet to build antibodies from. Am I wrong here?
 
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BUCKYLE;1114163; said:
I didn't think the polio vaccine was synthetic. I'm no biologist, but I thought it was just a weakend form of the virus. Therefore, it's just giving the human body a cheat sheet to build antibodies from. Am I wrong here?
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It appears (at least in the Wiki page, I don't have time for a more through search) that the vaccine is attenuated virus and/or dead virus (depending on which one they use)....

Polio vaccine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
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BUCKYLE;1114155; said:
The "risks" incurred by the rest of the vaccinated populace make the risks against vaccination even remotely acceptable to you. If no one else vaccinated their children, the risk of actually contracting polio would outweigh the risk of the vaccination.

Everyone else risks their child contracting polio from the vaccine so that you can feel comfortable not doing it. That's kind of fucked up.
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Agreed 100%.

Also, as someone who's grandfather was robbed of his ability to walk before he was 20, I can say my kids will definitely be getting the polio vaccine.
 
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I would vaccinate my kids. I think it's too risky not to. Hell, I vaccinate my dog for Lyme disease because I'm too paranoid that he'll get it. My cats don't get vaccinated because they never leave the house. My kids would definitely get vaccinated, unless I decided to lock them in the house and never let them out. :)
 
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shetuck;1114498; said:
I'm just wondering why the notion of "herd immunity" hasn't come here yet, or is that implied/oversimplistic and the debate gone far beyond it?
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MaxBuck;1114152; said:
This position reminds me a lot of family members (who were themselves chemists) who lectured me as a child that fluoridation was a Communist plot that would have dire health effects on our populace. Their beliefs were both dangerous and stupid.
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And this memory of yours has nothing to do with me nor my position on topics. :wink:
 
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