73 sats \ 7 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 30 Mar \ parent \ on: Childhood Vaccine Schedule Thoughts and Questions health
This! As a parent these ARE the facts and I agree you can do research, but many vaccines have and will saves children’s lives.
Why lump them all together though? Not every disease is very risky or even likely to be encountered, but every vaccine has known risks.
It seems like there's both an aggregation error and a myopic focus of the harms on one side of the ledger, while ignoring the harms on the other.
Where's the assessment of tradeoffs? Risk-benefit analysis?
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What do you mean by lump them all together? As far as I know there is always a “vaccine holiday” in between.
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I mean conceptually. Saying that vaccines save kids lives is a blanket statement that puts all vaccines in the same category category.
For instance, small-pox and chicken-pox are very different. Just because the small-pox vaccine has saved an incredible number of lives, does not mean anything about the value of the chicken-pox vaccine.
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What is the difference from getting a small load from a vaccine than a load from another kid, e.g., at a chickenpox party? If we talk about chickenpox vaccine specifically. Btw., chickenpox vaccine is optional and given much later, at least where I live.
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The differences are however the risks of the vaccine compare to the risks of chicken pox. I'm not an expert on that, but I am confident that the difference between those two things is smaller for chicken pox than it is for small pox.
Some vaccines are great, some are marginal, some are harmful for certain people. My point is that making blanket statements about how great vaccines are omits all nuance on the topic.
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This is it: some are harmful for certain people. And I would emphasize the word certain here.
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Yup exactly it’s a big bundle!
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