DR Congo measles: More than 6k dead in world's worst outbreak

Re:DR Congo measles: More than 6k dead in world's worst outb... by cmsj on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @06:26AM (#21990433)

To be very clear, I fully support vaccination, my kids are vaccinated, as am I.

Having said that, when people hear the risk of a bad reaction is 1:40000, I believe that what they think is "my kid's chances of getting this disease are lower than that, so I am making the smart choice by picking the lower risk and avoiding the vaccine risk".

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Re:DR Congo measles: More than 6k dead in world's worst outb... by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @07:59AM (#21990971)

And in some cases that's probably the rational position; even then it's still rational (and right) for the medical community to advise vaccination as they "don't care" about that one person, they care about the billions.

This dichotomy lies at the heart of this issue IMO.

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