California's rich, white unvaccinated kindergartners

The Lonious Monk

whatevathehell wrote: »

The Lonious Monk wrote: »

This is yet another reason why people need to know their history...the accurate history. If they did, they'd know that disease has ? humanity up in the past way more than war or natural disasters have. Contrary to popular belief, the Native Americans aren't on the brink of extinction because the Europeans just came over and whooped their ? . They were put in that position because contact with Europeans introduced diseases that devastated their population. That in turn weakened them enough to be routed by the Europeans. People don't seem to realize that it wasn't that uncommon for damn near whole towns and cities to be wiped out by some of the very diseases that we get vaccinated against.

We no longer even worry about diseases like Smallpox, Plague, Polio, and Tuberculosis largely because vaccinations have beaten them back so much that they aren't even a concern really. But they didn't disappear, those diseases are still floating around out there. People who don't get vaccinations are putting themselves at risk of contracting those diseases. They are also putting others at risk such as those who aren't yet able or cannot get the vaccinations for some reason. And like someone else says, if you have a large number of people who aren't vaccinated that pick up the disease, then you are risking that the disease can gain a foothold, mutate, and then put the entire population at risk regardless of vaccination. Why would you risk that over unsubstantiated paranoia?

Why the hell did europeans really have so many diseases other didnt. Was it due to all the intercontinental traveling they did.....or what?

You know what yiu dint wa t to vaccinste your child.fine...they need to be segregated from others though..give them their own ? school.

The problem isn't that Europeans had so many diseases. The problem is that the Native Americans were basically a group segregated from the majority of the rest of the world. So they didn't have any immunity to these diseases. None of those diseases I named were really isolated to Europe.

Stiff

The Lonious Monk wrote: »

This is yet another reason why people need to know their history...the accurate history. If they did, they'd know that disease has ? humanity up in the past way more than war or natural disasters have. Contrary to popular belief, the Native Americans aren't on the brink of extinction because the Europeans just came over and whooped their ? . They were put in that position because contact with Europeans introduced diseases that devastated their population. That in turn weakened them enough to be routed by the Europeans. People don't seem to realize that it wasn't that uncommon for damn near whole towns and cities to be wiped out by some of the very diseases that we get vaccinated against.

We no longer even worry about diseases like Smallpox, Plague, Polio, and Tuberculosis largely because vaccinations have beaten them back so much that they aren't even a concern really. But they didn't disappear, those diseases are still floating around out there. People who don't get vaccinations are putting themselves at risk of contracting those diseases. They are also putting others at risk such as those who aren't yet able or cannot get the vaccinations for some reason. And like someone else says, if you have a large number of people who aren't vaccinated that pick up the disease, then you are risking that the disease can gain a foothold, mutate, and then put the entire population at risk regardless of vaccination. Why would you risk that over unsubstantiated paranoia?

Good points but the paranoia comes from the lost faith in the medical community. People in general just don't believe that the medical industry has people's best interests at heart so it leads them to not trust them even when it would behoove them to.