02-02-2016, 11:55 AM
EvilOctopus: Remember the Measles outbreak in CA last year?
Yes, I remember that it was somewhat of a witch hunt. If you're talking about the Disneyland thing, 157 people got the measles. The mortality rate of measles is vanishingly low. I think deaths on Highway 130 has it beat by a long shot. And that compares a 10 mile stretch of road that we all likely use at least weekly to a national fatality rate.
I got the measles as a kid, and so did everyone of my peer group as I remember it. Which in itself means nothing much. My music teacher in middle school had polio and walked with crutches. Which means nothing much.
Using the Disneyland measles outbreak to justify mandatory vaccinations of a generic nature to help folks with a compromised immune system?
This is pretty much what I mean about how convoluted the "discourse" is at present.
HotPE: We have to make out best assessment of the risk and benefit of vaccines, and act accordingly.
I couldn't agree more! But it seems like folks on either side have already decided, regardless of logic (and perhaps "making out" is not the best approach, though I am open to the idea
). I am simply saying it is hardly settled one way or the other, at least to my mind.
Feels like the silly dolphin birth thread. Feeling silly even posting. Oh well...but no one has bit on the typhoid teaser, so I have THAT going for me.
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/...story.html
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/.../29624385/
Cheers,
Kirt
Yes, I remember that it was somewhat of a witch hunt. If you're talking about the Disneyland thing, 157 people got the measles. The mortality rate of measles is vanishingly low. I think deaths on Highway 130 has it beat by a long shot. And that compares a 10 mile stretch of road that we all likely use at least weekly to a national fatality rate.
I got the measles as a kid, and so did everyone of my peer group as I remember it. Which in itself means nothing much. My music teacher in middle school had polio and walked with crutches. Which means nothing much.
Using the Disneyland measles outbreak to justify mandatory vaccinations of a generic nature to help folks with a compromised immune system?
This is pretty much what I mean about how convoluted the "discourse" is at present.
HotPE: We have to make out best assessment of the risk and benefit of vaccines, and act accordingly.
I couldn't agree more! But it seems like folks on either side have already decided, regardless of logic (and perhaps "making out" is not the best approach, though I am open to the idea
). I am simply saying it is hardly settled one way or the other, at least to my mind.Feels like the silly dolphin birth thread. Feeling silly even posting. Oh well...but no one has bit on the typhoid teaser, so I have THAT going for me.
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/...story.html
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/.../29624385/
Cheers,
Kirt