Re: (TV) Is Bono Evil?

[Phil Obbard <pobbard@yahoo.com>]

--- Joe Thornton <joe.thornton@gmx.net> wrote:
> I'm privileged to know many 
> children who have never been vaccinated. There is nothing wrong
> with them. 
> They get all the well-known childhood diseases, recover quickly,
> and get on 
> with their lives -- as nearly all healthy children have done
> throughout human history.

Really? You're privileged to know children with polio and typhoid
fever?

I have no doubt some vaccines have side effects - welcome to medicine
- and that some aren't properly communicate to the public. But if the
rule is "as nearly all healthy children have done throughout human
history", a brief glance at falling mortality rates due to disease
over the last century leads one to believe that the risks of
vaccinating a population are miniscule (maybe 1/1000, or less) when
compared with the loss of herd immunity for any community.

--Phil, who was vaccinated for chickenpox last year!
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