Somewhereelse
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By briefly going through the first few pages, certainly stunned, I am...
Just had a second thought.
Perhaps treatment for certain infectious diseases should be mandatory - which indeed it is in some places. (If you got off a plane in Asia with a fever a few years ago, you were placed in mandatory quarantine).
I think refusal to take certain vaccines should require the signing of a waiver which acknowledges liability and perhaps mandatory treatment/quarantine.
I'm speaking from the perspective of someone who's well-versed in bacteriology and virology.
1. Read about all the diseases that have vaccines. All of them. And ask yourself if you would want to risk catching that sort of infection and spreading it.
2. Read about the Influenza epidemic of 1918 and think about the role herd immunity could have played.
3. Reread @Bird 's post
4. Alzheimers and other prion-related diseases tend to increase in frequency with AGE. As cells and proteins get older, their regulatory abilities decline, leading to cancers,Alzheimer's,CJD,etc.
5. I don't like mandates, but the public needs to be educated on vaccines, the pros and cons, and not choose to not vaccinate due to the ignorance of a celebrity.
If I get a bad disease that's transmittable, I really don't mind the idea of just staying home and either dying or not than putting God only knows what into me from some shoddy manufacturing. I don't even get the flu, so I'll be damned before I get a flu shot... if the flu kills me when I'm 80, then so be it. The Serengeti, Amazon or Siberia are the only places to get away from crazy shit everywhere anymore, and even there you'll have to worry about some wackos going crazy on you.
Well that's the interesting thing about diseases. With many diseases, you are infections, and will likely infect someone else, before you yourself experience any symptoms. Therefore, you would not know if you are infectious to know to lock yourself in your house. Then, you would infect other people as well, when you could have gotten a vaccine to prevent that situation. Your argument for the flu shot I can understand (not quite as dangerous, and you might be the lucky kind that is stronger against the flu virus naturally), but is it reasonable to apply the same logic to something like whooping cough which could infect, and kill, a small child? Or perhaps meningococcal meningitis which could result in yours and another persons death?
Time to move I guess.
Time to move I guess.
Well, if you would rather choose a life of seclusion away from technology and advanced society rather than take the extremely small risk associated with vaccines, then that is your choice. Respectfully, I would not make the former decision.
But the amount of mercury you are actually getting isn't a major threat. You would have such a problem with drinking water because you drink like 8 (I think cups or pints, I can't remember) per day (or should). That amount of mercury will build up. But a shot is what, 10 milliliters? Therefore the amount of mercury, while substantial in that specific amount of liquid, is still insignificant in what your body is able to tolerate overall. You probably wouldn't want to eat a ton of raw fish when you got one of these shots, and of course some people are more susceptible to others, but in reality the threat is minimal
I'm speaking from the perspective of someone who's well-versed in bacteriology and virology.
1. Read about all the diseases that have vaccines. All of them. And ask yourself if you would want to risk catching that sort of infection and spreading it.
2. Read about the Influenza epidemic of 1918 and think about the role herd immunity could have played.
3. Reread @Bird 's post
4. Alzheimers and other prion-related diseases tend to increase in frequency with AGE. As cells and proteins get older, their regulatory abilities decline, leading to cancers,Alzheimer's,CJD,etc.
5. I don't like mandates, but the public needs to be educated on vaccines, the pros and cons, and not choose to not vaccinate due to the ignorance of a celebrity.
I'm sorry, but this is silly. Vaccines are not social control. They keep us healthy as a general public and as a singular individual.
Thimerosol has been removed from vaccines in the U.S. since 2003, accept in influenza vaccines and a few others, which has thimerosol present in a concentration that is far less than the daily toxicity level, which is based on methyl mercury toxicity levels and not the ethylmercury that thimerosol metabolizes into. So even if the summation of thimerosol dosages given to infants before 2003 exceeded the maximum daily allowance of methylmercury for up to the 18 days that ethylmercury circulates throughout the body, and there was a risk of autism at such dosages(in which causation has not been demonstrated), there is certainly little to no risk in the U.S. today. So the smoking gun of the anti-vaccine campaign is really of no concern. The CDC recommended the removal of thimerosol to appease people those who tried to make an emotional appeal, based on pseudoscience, to the general public, causing many in the public to forgo getting vaccinations, which raised public health concerns.
Here is some additional information for those interested in thimerosol in vaccinations
http://www.immunizationinfo.org/issues/thimerosal-mercury/mercury-vaccines
WRONG!!
The flu vaccine contains thimerosal
Also think about it for a moment......
The CDC and FDA who are the people you are supposed to trust were feeding you thimerosal STRAIGHT INTO YOUR BLOODSTREAM until a PUBLIC OUTCRY STOPPED THEM
Do you understand? The only thing that has lessened the poisoning that the authorities were knowingly and willfully carrying out was an outcry from the public
Do you understand? Public=right, lying authorities=wrong
Yes, I know. Thimerosol is in the flu vaccine. I said so myself above. Wasn't it you who argued that it was the large number of vaccines that infants received, which contained thimerosol, that caused autism. It was because the total thimerosol injected far exceeded the daily threshold for toxicity? A flu shot is far below that threshold. So now you're saying that any dosage of thimerosol whatsoever causes autism. This is not supported by any evidence. So which is it? High dose or low dose?Let me ask you this: If all of the elements you suspect of causing autism were removed, would you be just as opposed to vaccinations? It seems no amount of evidence demonstrating no link is of no use to you.