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Until you can control who you spread the disease to, vaccines are not a personal choice.
That's a little dramatic. Of course they are... Look at all the vaccines that they push, its not just measle or mumps. Big pharma is big business.
It would help if you aimed your cynicism at an actual abuse. Nobody has gotten rich off a vaccine yet. Sales are ONE per customer, usually sold in highly discounted large batches to governments or NGOs. The money in Big Pharm is products that people buy and buy and buy. Like Viagra or pain relievers. The problem with vaccines is getting any big enough phai thrmaceutical company to work on one. Most do the numbers and are highly uninterested.
Polio was obvious, everyone in my generation knew kids in our classes wearing braces. Or worse. Measles, and the other serious childhood diseases affected everyone. Only ignorant young people diss protection from them.
We finally have a decent vaccine for the worst of the HPVs and idiots everywhere claim they promote immorality. When did cervical cancer become moral?
Vaccines, infectious disease outbreak isolation, sewer systems and effectively clean public water supplies have lengthened the human life span, not medical interventions in individual trauma, infection and critical diseases. Preventing disease is the proper and efficient response, treatment is too expensive and often too little, too late. Bill Gates well understands this and seems to be trying to get the monkey of highly questionable fortune building off his back by financing the most serious effort yet to develop a vaccine for malaria, probably the biggest health issue currently in the third world.
I said it was a personal choice... good shit. I didn't say Im anti vaccine but as each year goes by more and more vaccines are recommended. Vaccines and medications are big business. They make more off people by "aiding symptoms" than they ever would in actually finding or releasing a cure. If people want to pump themselves full of the newest vaccine out there... great! Before putting Gates on a pedestal Id recommend reading and understanding all of what hes hoping to accomplish.
If you think that just because you're vaccinated you're safe from said disease, you're wrong. Albeit they lower your risk but its not a cure all. I don't care who you are... before someone injects you I'd suggest learning about it... side effects, frequency needed, etc. I think theres a difference between immunizing for polio and HPV, as an example. In my mind, one is very important and the other is not... for me personally.
And if someone refuses a vaccine for HPV, what right do you or the government have to cram it down their throat anyway? Its about personal choice... what I find a little ironic is a group based on personal choice and lifestyle being so not for personal choice. Lol.
Before I get slammed Ill reiterate again for the hearing impaired... I'm not anti vaccine but I am selective. Do I feel in order to enroll into public school children should be vaccinated, sure. If a parent chooses to not immunize, thats on them as their child is taking the greatest risk. They're little germ carriers! But to permit a government requiring vaccines is an incredibly scary thought to me and thats not control I'm interested in losing.
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