When Having Friends Is More Alluring Than Being Right

Re:When Having Friends Is More Alluring Than Being Right by gdhbcc on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @05:52AM (#20572914)

Humans have existed for hundreds of thousands of years with no vaccines. Let's not be needlessly fearmongering when it comes to their necessity.

In this day and age, given the quality of medical treatment available to most of the population, any outbreak of diseases can be handled in a much better way, and with less comparative casualties than ever before, regardless of the use o vaccines.

Vaccines are useful, there is no doubt about that, but they are in no way a necessity without which we cannot live.

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Re:When Having Friends Is More Alluring Than Being Right by ken on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @10:31AM (#20574690)

We also have unprecedented population density. 10,000 years ago I wouldn’t have walked within sneezing distance of 1,000 people before lunchtime.

Just because something wasn’t needed before doesn’t mean it isn’t needed now that circumstances have changed. We also existed for hundreds of thousands of years without seatbelts.

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Re:When Having Friends Is More Alluring Than Being Right by EpicEng on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @12:34PM (#20636298)

Back in the real world of today, where one infected person can infect thousands more, if prefer my child not die of polio if it can be avoided.

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Re:When Having Friends Is More Alluring Than Being Right by mcperr3 on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @10:40AM (#20574751)

So maybe just a few unnecessary deaths resulting from actions of anti-vaxxers is okay as long as it's not an extinction-level event?

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