Flu is not the biggest danger ...... It's the vaccine

mentalfloss

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Gee, I wonder why there are no reported deaths from measles in the last ten years lol

Edit: Thanks SLM for showing that the claim isn't even true.
 

Sal

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that article is untrue because it is misleading

snopes.com: ZERO U.S. Measles Deaths in 10 Years, but Over 100 Measles Vaccine Deaths Reported?



What the article failed to address was the reason why measles killed so few Americans in the period cited. The glaring omission had a very specific root cause, namely measles elimination: In 2000, the United States declared that measles was eliminated from this country. The United States was able to eliminate measles because it has a highly effective measles vaccine, a strong vaccination program that achieves high vaccine coverage in children and a strong public health system for detecting and responding to measles cases and outbreaks.

Measles elimination is defined as the absence of continuous disease transmission for 12 months or more in a specific geographic area. Measles is no longer endemic (constantly present) in the United States.
It stands to (very simple) reason a timespan beginning in 2004 (four years after measles elimination) and ending just before the late 2014 outbreak would see few (albeit not zero) deaths from measles, because the viral infection had been largely eliminated from the United States during the period specifically selected to illustrate the purported innocuous nature of measles.
Read more at snopes.com: ZERO U.S. Measles Deaths in 10 Years, but Over 100 Measles Vaccine Deaths Reported?


oops didn't read down far enough before I went on my search...sorry
 

SLM

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oops didn't read down far enough before I went on my search...sorry


Doesn't matter, it's not as though I expect any sort of reply or rebuttal.

I've said it before, but I'll say it again, everyone is entitled to their own opinions. They are not, however, entitled to their own facts.

 

Stretch

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The anti-vaccination people don't want to stop people from vaccinating their children if thats what they wish, they just want to have the choice, whereas, the pro-vaccination people want to take that choice away, how fair is that??
Also, if your/their child is vaccinated, what is to fear from an unvaccinated child, or don't you/they believe the vaccines work?

The Vaccine Autism Cover-up: How One Doctor’s Career was Destroyed for Telling the Truth
 
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Dexter Sinister

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The Vaccine Autism Cover-up? What are you, stupid? That was completely discredited a long time ago and the journal that published the original Wakefield study retracted and repudiated it, there's no connection at all between vaccines and autism. Your judgment seriously needs investigation, you're spreading ideas that are provably false and dangerous.
 

Cliffy

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Nothing is black and white Dex. Almost ever parent I know who has an autistic child says the child was normal until they were given a vaccine. I don't know one way or the other, but I get really antsy when Big Pharma and/or the government want to force everybody to do anything. I look at H1N1, Avian flu and a bunch others that never amounted to anything and the fact the Big Pharma made billions off those scares and I think I have a good reason to be suspicious.
 

Dexter Sinister

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I just can't be kind about this. There is NO connection between vaccines and autism, it's just a coincidence of timing: symptoms of autism often appear at around the same age as certain vaccinations are recommended, but there's no demonstrable causal reationship. Vaccination is one of the most successful public health measures of all time, plagues of smallpox, measles, polio, pertussis, rubella, diptheria, tuberculosis, are things of the past, and there are still people living who remember what scourges they were. My grandparents' generation was the first in history that could reasonably assume all its children would survive to adulthood, and vaccines are a large part of the reason. The anti-vaxxers are ignorant, stupid, and dangerous.
 

Stretch

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Dex, I have a really beautiful waterfront property for-sale, cheap...................................at low tide
 

Stretch

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your choice mate, I'm sorry you feel that way ;-)

my days are spent working with people with disabilities, awesome, amazing people, I see what "medication"
does, daily...... you?
 
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Cannuck

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m.youtube.com/watch?v=QgpfNScEd3M

That one's for Taxslave and all the other homeopathic/naturopathic religious people.