You do know that vaccination doesn't magically prevent one from catching the bug, do you? Your immune system is just better equipped to deal with it, so that you show no or only mild clinical signs.
This is an absurd distinction. It amounts to gibberish. Your intent is to deceive. Vaccines protect us from deadly diseases. There is no "a little bit rabies". There is no mild case of tetanus. A vaccinated child does not get a little Pertussis. Your are wrong scientifically speaking. Further. A vaccinated child virtually never produces a pathogen load capable infecting others.
I don't think vaccination is the right strategy to counter that risk. A low estimate of unknown viruses in mammals is approx. 300,000.
Meaningless.
I have not found an estimate for humans, but the number of viruses that are either unknown or cause no or unknown problems must dwarf the number we currently vaccinate against.
Meaningless. We vaccinate against known threats in given populations. I have been vaccinated against rabies, yellow fever and long ago Yersinia Pestis. None of these are likely to be of interest to the general population but they were administered to counter a particular threat. That is what we do with childhood diseases. We vaccinate against them because they are known threats.
I am old enough to remember when children died of polio. I have personally seen smallpox and treated a child dying of tetanus. I lost a friend to measles and when I was a child whooping cough and diphtheria were killers. Only a complete idiot would risk these in their child or even consider allowing their unvaccinated child to kill other children who are unable to take the vaccines.
I have no patience for this argument. None whatsoever. No appeal to authority intended but those of you who have reduced this to a question of "personal choice" or political empowerment are just being stupid. Criminally irresponsible even when you vaccinate your own child because you may influence people even stupider than you are.
However, for all of them exists the possibility that they mutate either by going from animal to human or, as you say, become more contagious or dangerous, etc..
Not true and beside the point. I don't know which high school you studied epidemiology at but you need to repeat a grade.
Insert here 2000 scholarly words about how this quadruple re-assortment virus (h1N1 2009 variant) developed. All of which would be lost on you.
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see strong parallels between the debate about vaccinations and climate change. Plenty of emotion, not enough respect for the subject.
The proponents for and against are so selfish and one eyed in their views that they're hindered in making valid and credible arguments.
Bollocks. Get this in your head. There is absolutely no doubt, none, nada, zip...in the scientific community that vaccination saves millions of lives worldwide. This is not about someone's opinion. People no longer die of smallpox. Children need not die of measles, diphtheria or tetanus. Get that squarely in your wheelhouse.
I have to deal with this bullshit just about every single day. I have a stock answer. It goes like this:
"Thanks for your opinion about not vaccinating your child. You are stupid and criminally negligent. If it were up to me I would have the state take your children away from you and put them with someone smart enough to raise them. More importantly someone who will ensure that they have the best chance of making it to adulthood. Now go away and go to school. I recommend the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. When you graduate with your degree in public health come back and see me. If you still feel the way you do I will then recommend that you return to the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and get your MPH (Epidemiology). Then come back. If then you still believe that there is a case to be made for parents randomly refusing to vaccinate their children I will recommend that you return to the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and get your Doctorate in Public Health (Epidemiology) and come see me. If you still believe as before I will know without a doubt that you are just fucking with me for fun. But at least you will know how absolutely stupid you were before you went to school."