Back to the vaccination topic:
All of the following numbers are made up, but the principles apply.
Here is the theory as to why you not getting a vaccination is dangerous for me. If we have a hypothetical vaccine X that is 80% effective and if everyone is administered the vaccine we population who will prevent an epidemic of disease X. If only 3/4 of the population take the vaccine we will have a population that is 60% immune. This means there are probably are enough people who can become infected to create an epidemic. So 15% of people who took the vaccine but it didn't work on get screwed by the people not taking the vaccine.
Of course people who are anti-vaccine are more likely to associate with people who are also anti-vaccine. So in reality the threshold for a epidemic is much lower.
Assuming the Autism/vaccine thing is truth (which I don't believe)-what percentage of children are you willing to let die (whooping cough etc.) to prevent a small percent of Autism?
In my opinion the costs of not vaccinating are much higher the potential costs of vaccinating.
All of the following numbers are made up, but the principles apply.
Here is the theory as to why you not getting a vaccination is dangerous for me. If we have a hypothetical vaccine X that is 80% effective and if everyone is administered the vaccine we population who will prevent an epidemic of disease X. If only 3/4 of the population take the vaccine we will have a population that is 60% immune. This means there are probably are enough people who can become infected to create an epidemic. So 15% of people who took the vaccine but it didn't work on get screwed by the people not taking the vaccine.
Of course people who are anti-vaccine are more likely to associate with people who are also anti-vaccine. So in reality the threshold for a epidemic is much lower.
Assuming the Autism/vaccine thing is truth (which I don't believe)-what percentage of children are you willing to let die (whooping cough etc.) to prevent a small percent of Autism?
In my opinion the costs of not vaccinating are much higher the potential costs of vaccinating.