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Re:DR Congo measles: More than 6k dead in world's worst outb... by toddmorey on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @06:34AM (#21990477)
This doesn’t sound like a life-saving approach at all. Helps to frame it as the idea, not the person, that’s idiotic. Then work on being a better communicator who’s powerful at getting concepts across.
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Re:DR Congo measles: More than 6k dead in world's worst outb... by MiroF on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @06:39AM (#21990500)
I'm not sure - stigma can actually be quite effective at compelling action.
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Re:DR Congo measles: More than 6k dead in world's worst outb... by gdfasfklshg4 on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @07:17AM (#21990699)
Entertaining anti-vaccination as a non idiotic concept costs lives.

Maybe stupidity should be ridiculed? We've tried taking it seriously and it isn't helping.

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Re:DR Congo measles: More than 6k dead in world's worst outb... by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @07:35AM (#21990813)
Very recently UK medics noticed some highly deleterious effects of Tetra Fluenz flu vaccine and pushed back the earliest age for its use to 24 months. They not only entertained not vaccinating, they advise it.

It's irrational to not consider the question of whether taking a vaccine is right (for yourself [or dependents], and for the population).

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Re:DR Congo measles: More than 6k dead in world's worst outb... by rwmurrayVT on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @07:57AM (#21990961)
There's a big difference between a flu vaccination and MMR.
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Re:DR Congo measles: More than 6k dead in world's worst outb... by gdfasfklshg4 on Friday January 10, 2020 @09:16AM (#22011040)
Not as big as you are thinking the MMR is normally given after one year. This is because there are some know potential negative side effects when babies get it earlier.

The point is that society already evaluates these hazards/risks very effectively so that individual parents don't need to. Indeed any individual parent's risk analysis about vaccines is likely to put their children at greater risk.

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