No, the other question is who gets to decide which risk to take?
Many here say it's the government. Maybe the governments should have people at casinos dictating which bet to place calculating the odds.
Many people no longer grasp the concept of INDIVIDUAL risk taking, that it's MY risk to decide, not the government's or the collective hive mentality.
All that's fine, but what you're not admitting here is your decision to take a risk also puts a great many more at risk who didn't get to weigh in on your decision. Let's assume your own child will survive the disease because of good health, diet, and access to medical care. The problem is he or she can go to McD, infect a child, who infects a father, who visits his wife in the ICU getting chemo and whose immunity is severely compromised.
Those risks are tiny today, but only because the vast majority of people over decades have been responsible, and contribute to the public health in the big picture, by getting vaccinated. And the anti-vaxers rely on those individual who were responsible and got vaccinated to protect themselves and THEIR loved ones from these totally preventable and nearly eradicated diseases. It's really very selfish.
Just as a personal example, I take a drug that is intended to and does suppress my immune system. The side effects are I am more susceptible for diseases of all kinds, including those I've been vaccinated against. I had to get tested for some of these before the first dose because my current immune system bolstered by vaccinations protected me. The drug upsets that balance. Anyway, some kid with measles poses a risk to me, and more significantly
THROUGH ME to my elderly mother in law who simply would not survive a serious illness at this point in her life.
Most vaccinations are a disease they are injecting into the person. No tests are done on the person before this. No information of where or how it is was made. Just 50 needles with diseases, some with many blended together, for which those of the collective hive mentality declare the big pharma has successfully assured the government it's safe - and thus only a lunatic would dare question it.
Interesting you call those who rely on all the scientific evidence as having a "collective hive mentality." What the science tells us in crystal clear terms is the risk of the diseases overwhelms the real but miniscule risk of vaccination. We don't have to guess what vaccination has accomplished - nearly eradicated diseases that used to seriously sicken and kill
And all the experts swore Iraq had WMDs too. To everyone. To the whole world. And MOST people believed them. It's not like government and corporations ever lie to anyone. :roll:
That's a fair point, but how long did it take for the truth about WMDs to come out? And the truth did quickly emerge even given the (we'll assume) large incentives for government to keep those truths hidden. What you're suggesting is essentially a conspiracy theory participated in by nearly all the world's health professionals and all the world's most influential healthcare organizations. The reason they all support vaccinations is on a risk/reward basis there probably isn't an easier no brainer in all of science - vaccinate a population and public health will DRAMATICALLY improve, nearly overnight. The living examples are
every population that has been vaccinated and measures of public health before and after.