Frontline: The Vaccine War (58min)

"Examining the emotionally charged debate over medical risks vs. benefits and a parent's right to make choices about her child vs. a community's common good..." - via Frontline

Original page: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/vaccines/?utm_campaign=homepage&utm_medium=bigimage&utm_source=bigimage
NordlichReitersays...

OK I see it.

HEP-B is a disease that can be contracted from bodily fluids and shit; they vaccinate police and security guards. You can ask for it from your doctor, its a common vaccination. Like tetanus.

They offered it at my training I declined on the basis that no one could provide medical credentials (IE a Medical Doctor).

HEP-B is a popular vaccination.

NordlichReitersays...

Why do you vaccinate? Why use a condom? Why carry a tazer, or gun? Why walk in well lit very populated areas?

Once when I was younger I took a flu shot, and then a while later I got sick; you guessed it with the flu. I don't like the idea that "you where probably going to get sick anyway" because it is a stupid argument thrown out there with little explanation. I was already sick with flu before I had gotten the shot; but not showing symptoms. Which means that my getting sick was a coincidence but when I was younger I fell for the logical fallacy. At the time in my mind it was the vaccine that caused sickness.

Do I expect the vaccination to protect me 100%? Do I expect my house Alarm to keep me from being robbed or protect me from home invasion? No, but it can help protect me.

I deal with this stuff at work in a different sort of system. How do you protect your network from intrusion? By running a firewall, using a NIDS (Like snort), logging at the gateway, and running up to date anti-virus.

Does that save you from attack? No, which I frustratingly know. Even with all of the protections in the world it can't guarantee safety. It only lessens the likelihood of attack or infection.

The best method of security is prevention. Get Vaccinated.

http://coldflu.about.com/od/fluvaccinequestions/f/illafterflushot.htm

spoco2says...

>> ^gwiz665:

I find it interesting that pro-choice is bad here and good in abortions. Seems like an inversion of morals.


Having an abortion affects JUST the mother (and father, friends, emotionally etc.), not getting vaccinated affects the population as a whole. So it's the whole 'do whatever ever you like to yourself as long as you're not hurting others' argument. Not getting vaccinated IS hurting others.

Oh, and Jenny McCarthy is a fool.

A fool who I've seen directly influence members of my extended family who questioned whether they should get the MMR shot for their kid because they were scared it would make them Autistic.

And don't get me started on fricken homoeopathic 'vaccines'... ARGH!

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