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In reply to the discussion: Hey, America, vaccinate your damn kids! [View all]dawg day
(7,947 posts)32. Well, if you did investigate, you'd learn that pre-vaccination,
thousands of children die or were very damaged by measles every year.
And many many millions missed weeks of school, and also ended up with scars.
It's better now.
(And, btw, I never got vaccinations -- too old-- and ended up with auto-immune diseases. Just saying. These diseases ARE vaccinations-- that is, if you get the measles, you got lifelong immunity from the measles. The diseases themselves have an effect on the immune system.)
Critical thinking includes deciding that the recommendations of experts are more likely to be right than the recommendation of Jenny McCarthy.
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But they read it one the internet! There is no convincing a woo believer. I have given up.
GulfCoast66
Dec 2018
#48
Public health science should be required in middle school and high school, complete with graphic...
Hekate
Dec 2018
#49
Had there been a flu vaccine, I might have known my grandfather who died in 1918.
GoneOffShore
Jan 2019
#52