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Post #303,845
by boxley
2/8/09 4:01:54 PM
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New what protection of the larger population?
we have people coming over the border will all kinds of grungy communicable diseases and we dont seem to give a crap about that.
Post #303,848
by pwhysall
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2/8/09 4:17:53 PM
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New Vaccination isn't pointless...
...and the sums to prove it have been done, by finer minds than ours.
Post #303,852
by a6l6e6x
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2/8/09 4:36:04 PM
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New You shoulda seen "American Experience" on PBS last night.
It was about polio, "March of Dimes", Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin, etc culminating in the late in the 1950's. After testing on monkeys, Salk tested kids in orphanages and mental/handicapped institutions. Things like informed consent was an unknown concept.

When the dead virus vaccine was deployed, a California manufacturer screwed up and shipped vaccine with a live virus. They caused polio and even deaths. That resulted in a hiatus in the US immunization program.

Perhaps you had to have been there, but the polio scare was number two to only the Red scare in the 1950's.
Alex
Post #303,853
by Andrew Grygus
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2/8/09 4:44:57 PM
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New I was there . . .
. . and the propaganda was intense. Pictures of rows of iron lung machines and kids in leg braces everywhere. Contribution cans in the shape of iron lungs littered public places everywhere.
Post #303,858
by malraux
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2/8/09 5:32:06 PM
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New That's my wife's main objection
Most of these things aren't tested, or at least aren't tested with children in mind, before being sprung on the populace. No argument about the efficacy; it's the ever-changing formulation that causes concern.
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #303,859
by boxley
2/8/09 5:35:17 PM
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New I was there, grew up with kids on sticks
polio and small pox is different than measles, mumps diptheria and pertussis are worse
thanx,
bill
Post #303,856
by mhuber
2/8/09 5:26:24 PM
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New Still helps
Probably even more than without them.

If there are no incoming viruses, not much for the vaccine to fight.

     Data faked in famous Lancet anti-vaccination study? - (Another Scott) - (11) - Feb. 8, 2009, 09:33:23 AM EST
         Ah, the MMR-Autism Scare - (pwhysall) - (1) - Feb. 8, 2009, 10:08:22 AM EST
             Thanks. - (Another Scott) - Feb. 8, 2009, 10:51:56 AM EST
         dunno about mmr but anecdotal - (boxley) - (8) - Feb. 8, 2009, 11:49:21 AM EST
             That's not the controversey - (mhuber) - (7) - Feb. 8, 2009, 03:26:43 PM EST
                 what protection of the larger population? - (boxley) - (6) - Feb. 8, 2009, 04:01:54 PM EST
                     Vaccination isn't pointless... - (pwhysall) - Feb. 8, 2009, 04:17:53 PM EST
                     You shoulda seen "American Experience" on PBS last night. - (a6l6e6x) - (3) - Feb. 8, 2009, 04:36:04 PM EST
                         I was there . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Feb. 8, 2009, 04:44:57 PM EST
                         That's my wife's main objection - (malraux) - Feb. 8, 2009, 05:32:06 PM EST
                         I was there, grew up with kids on sticks - (boxley) - Feb. 8, 2009, 05:35:17 PM EST
                     Still helps - (mhuber) - Feb. 8, 2009, 05:26:24 PM EST

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