10-25-2009, 10:34 PM
Ammo wrote:
[quote=freeradical]
[quote=kanesa]
The only problem I have with people who do not want to get the vaccination is if you do get H1N1, you are endangering other people and their families. You could be infected and standing in line at the grocery store, you sneeze and expose the pregnant checkout woman. Or you expose a co-worker who also babysits his grandchildren after work.
Exactly. This is why we have mandatory vaccination programs for children entering school. If everyone were to get this vaccine, there would be 308 people with reactions if the one out of a million rate is accurate. But if everyone were vaccinated, we could save as many as 30-35,000 lives as year. This is a PUBLIC health issue.
I believe this is called herd immunity. As more people get vaccinated, fewer people will die of the illness.
You want to vaccinate everybody against every illness?
What would you do about the roughly 20% of the population who experience side-effects from vaccines and the 5% or so who end up hospitalized or dying from vaccine-reactions?
Or, to put it another way:
Would you vaccinate your infant daughter against HPV knowing that the vaccine only protects against 4 kinds of HPV, that there are over 40 common HPVs that would still be able -- and fairly likely -- to infect her, that the immunity is not likely to last beyond 5 years and that the vaccine has a 6% chance of presenting a life-threatening adverse reaction?
You really want to roll those dice?