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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

vaccines should be like circumcision, let people decide for themselves at age 18

[–]neomarxist_bullshit 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

Shouldn't children get vaccinated against dangerous stuff like polio? I got a bunch of vaccines as a kid and I don't think I'm any worse because of it.

[–]thefirststone 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Children in the US aren't routinely vaccinated against polio or smallpox any more, because it doesn't appear, because of the success of the vaccine, according to all indications. Other places show the same success, like India a few years ago.

But maybe polio wasn't quite the danger we all thought it was. For example, FDR probably had Guilliain-Barre Syndrome, the same disease that still cripples victims of vaccines and viruses today.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

We still vax for polio here.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

polio was spread thru feces, if we have a better sewage treatment system, teach people to clean their toilet and shut the lid, there'd be a lot less illnesses.

[–]chadwickofwv 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No, those vaccines aren't safe either. The only reason this is not broadly known is that the extreme majority has gotten them so there is no obvious control group.

[–]neomarxist_bullshit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah but we see what happens when one doesn't get vaccinated and then gets some horrible disease. We have to ask what is worse - the possible side effects or the illness.