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    9 months ago

    2020 - S05E11 - Your Body, My Choice!

    The US may be heading to a “dangerous vaccination tipping point,” with immunization rates falling so low that population-level immunity is now at risk, and we will likely see thousands of needless deaths this respiratory virus season, two top officials for the Food and Drug Administration warned in a recent JAMA commentary. FDA Commissioner Robert Califf and top FDA vaccine regulator Peter Marks noted the profound benefits of vaccines—which save millions of lives in the US each year—and their established safety, which is monitored both passively and actively through multiple overlapping federal safety monitoring systems. And yet, “an increasing number of people in the US are now declining vaccination for a variety of reasons, ranging from safety concerns to religious beliefs,” thanks to the rise of anti-vaccine misinformation spread on social media and elsewhere on the Internet. - TV-MA, 58 mins

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      9 months ago

      I’m assuming you started looking for a new doctor who is not a complete idiot.

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          I don’t know man, he is either full of shit or he would be talking to the CDC about these “anomalies” instead of you. He also shouldn’t be developing a conclusion based on his own personal experience since it’s not statistically relevant and if true, doesn’t account for any other commonality between the patients with “anomalies”.

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      Problem is that it puts people at risk that cannot get vaccines for legit medical reasons or don’t have access to a place where they can get vaccinated

      It can also put kids of anti-vaxxers at risk that know their parents are stupid

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        Herd immunity is vulnerable to the free rider problem. Individuals who lack immunity, including those who choose not to vaccinate, free ride off the herd immunity created by those who are immune. As the number of free riders in a population increases, outbreaks of preventable diseases become more common and more severe due to loss of herd immunity.

        The freaking science teacher at my old school didn’t understand what herd immunity is. This was before COVID when vaccine retardedness was just a growing chorus of idiocy from right wing radio. Which the science teacher listened to constantly.