So you are if you fall short. Except overshooting has the added benefit that the whole dilemma for a particular disease stops existing from here on out, forever.
A wide range of vaccination levels would work to wipe out the disease forever, not only 100%. What we are waiting on is places like Africa to catch up, not the US getting from 90-100 or whatever.
And as I have agreed several times already, making sure that we don't dip into endemic disease rates is indeed an important, separate consideration that must also be constantly observed, in
addition to any consideration about short term risk/benefit balancing.
But neither of those two considerations requires or implies a full 100% vaccination rate necessarily.
To put it in terms of propaganda: Even if a 100% vaccination rate is not the optimum (which is GavJ's point), we should still advocate a vaccination rate of 100% (which is, as far as I can see, the cause of everybody's discomfort with GavJ's post) to convince dumb people to vaccinate and get closer to the actual optimum.
Not necessarily. What if the optimum is something like 45%? It is very unlikely to be for measles in particular, but every disease would have different points, andfor some it might be plausible that it is much lower than current levels.
I would agree that practically, if the ideal is 85-90 or so, you could just advertise 100. But that's not always necessarily the case or therefore the best strategy.
It's also possible to simply provide different levels of advertising. Have a pithy suggestion that says it is for people who dont have time to get into it, and then lengthier explanations for those who want them. *shrug* Just straight up lying to your citizens is not a very defensible position in almost any situation...
lease do note: the choice should be informed in the least.
I respect an informed choice too, but an actually informed choice is unfortunately impossible here, because the
information you need for your
informed choice is nonexistent.
Sorry if that's uncomfortable or annoying, but it's the way it is. Not everything in the world is capable of fully informed choices.
Could I ask why the tone of being against vaccination? o_O
I'm not against vaccination, go for it (I would probably partially or even fully vaccinate my own children too, I'm not sure). What I'm against is people being assholes to other people who choose not to vaccinate, when neither of them actually know they are any more right than the other.