As I keep having to explain to people, there are different kinds of mercury. Methylmercury, which accumulates in the body, and ethylmercury, which does not. Vaccines contain the latter.
If any mercury was going to wreck you, you wouldn't be able to eat fish or have any involvement with it, as we see from the
dramatic and deadly consequences of methylmercury exposure. But as long as your exposure is limited, ethylmercury is of no concern. A vaccine would have to be almost all mercury to do any harm with the size of the dose given. Yes, even to infants.
Of course, even in the pre-reduction days it was nowhere near this quantity. The reduction was done to appease public ignorance, not out of any medical concern.
The reverse of this is true as well, though. To use the example in the documentary I linked, why should I put my child at the risk of developing a debilitating incurable disorder merely to ensure the safety of other people who are vanishingly unlikely to be affected by my decision?
A. Your child is not at risk of disorder. Even if this narcolepsy thing is real, it's predetermined by genetics and is a poor substitute for the now debunked autism claims.
B. The reason why your child is not at risk of horrid disease is because the world is vaccinated. There's a reason why this shit only became widespread
after mass disease suppression. There was once a time where getting smallpox and polio was just something people
did, and was expected. More likely than not, even.If you sit there and tell me we should allow that world to return, we've got nothing to talk about. 50,000 Americans die of influenza every year, and that number would be damn near 0 if everybody got their fucking flu shots. Imagine what a pile of 50,000 corpses looks like, every year.
Even if vaccines caused autism to the degree of the worst claims of anti-vaxxers, I would still demand everybody be vaccinated. Not hypocrisy either, I've taken the needle and thus any risk that could result from it. Vaccines are the single greatest health benefit the human race has ever acquired, rivaled only by antibiotics and for similar reasons.
C. Not to put too fine a point on it, but I'm in full alignment with Max for once. If you don't vaccinate your children, please eject yourself from society. You do not have the individual liberty to cause a pandemic, nor to get your own and others' children killed.
Everyone has a different opinion on where the line is between personal responsibility and the social contract, I'm sure. For me, I don't believe the state has a right to force vaccines upon members of the population if they're unwilling (excluding a Typhoid Mary type situation, I suppose).
The state has every right. The whole purpose of the state is to facilitate our collective organization. We pass diseases from one another without trying, so measures to inhibit disease are a power of the state.
I have no problem with oversight to prevent actual malfeasance, but that will never be the right to refuse vaccination. Even adults shouldn't have that right, much less children.
If you want to talk about the social contract; aiding and abetting the spread of disease puts you in violation in the exact same way killing people with negligence does. Doesn't matter if you meant to or not. The fact, and corpses, remain.
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