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SomeMichGuy · M
Easy.
1) For diseases eradicated/well-controlled by vaccinating enough people, the rise of this stupidity can constitute a breakdown in the herd immunity.
That impacts people differently, but it certainly affects:
• the very young (look at a "standard mortality table"--the first two years are dangerous years for babies/very young children; the chance of surviving to the next year goes up after this(
• the older
• anyone with a compromised immune system, such as, e.g., people who have had an organ transplant, those on chemotherapy drugs, those with conditions affecting the parts of the body most involved in this protection
• people with a genetic tendency to catch this
• people who can't be vaccinated
2) For measles...well measles is a bad gift which keeps hurting:
3) Getting infected means you have given an organism a chance to evolve.
CoViD can evolve quickly, and has; being a flu-like virus, this is apparently unremarkable, but it is dangerous.
Enough unvaccinated ppl is what made CoViD become endemic...
4) For CoViD, the worst thing is you can be an asymptomatic carrier...
1) For diseases eradicated/well-controlled by vaccinating enough people, the rise of this stupidity can constitute a breakdown in the herd immunity.
That impacts people differently, but it certainly affects:
• the very young (look at a "standard mortality table"--the first two years are dangerous years for babies/very young children; the chance of surviving to the next year goes up after this(
• the older
• anyone with a compromised immune system, such as, e.g., people who have had an organ transplant, those on chemotherapy drugs, those with conditions affecting the parts of the body most involved in this protection
• people with a genetic tendency to catch this
• people who can't be vaccinated
2) For measles...well measles is a bad gift which keeps hurting:
The measles virus can deplete previously acquired immune memory by killing cells that make antibodies, and thus weakens the immune system, which can cause deaths from other diseases.[28][29][30] Suppression of the immune system by measles lasts about two years and has been epidemiologically implicated in up to 90% of childhood deaths in third world countries, and historically may have caused rather more deaths in the United States, the UK and Denmark than were directly caused by measles.[83][84
(Emphasis added; from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles)3) Getting infected means you have given an organism a chance to evolve.
CoViD can evolve quickly, and has; being a flu-like virus, this is apparently unremarkable, but it is dangerous.
Enough unvaccinated ppl is what made CoViD become endemic...
4) For CoViD, the worst thing is you can be an asymptomatic carrier...
mksworld · 46-50, C
@SomeMichGuy We like vaccines that are effective, *proven* to be so, plus safe with well-understood risks and contra-indications. Covid vaxes are none of that. Flu vaxes are at least positively accepted without fear.
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