You are the worst person.
You can be a vegan and whine at people, thats hurting nobody but when you tell people to not take vaccines, you’re endangering public health.
If YOU mixed mercury, aluminium phosphate, ammonium sulfate, formaldehyde and viruses and injected it into someone, you’d kill someone because you have no pharmacological experience.
If someone in a lab mixed those together, they know how they work, they have medically assessed and peer reviewed evidence and strict guidelines to follow to create a safe and effective product. Why is it legal? Because they know what they’re doing and know how to spell “phosphate” and “ammonium”.
Why don’t YOU educate yourself instead of subscribing to the notion that all scientists are evil and want to poison you are your natural, vegan lifestyle. I say this as a fucking IMMUNOLOGIST, you are single handedly responsible for the skyrocketing resurgence of deaths caused by TB, measles and the worrying prospect of smallpox returning.
Let’s break this one down and give you some education.
- Mercury is an element in the compound thiomersal which was part of many vaccines. It has been claimed with NO tangible evidence other than a multifaceted correlation that thiomersals cause autism. This has been investigated thoroughly and no causal link has been found.
- Aluminium phosphate is an aluminium salt which is used as an adjuvant in vaccines. An adjuvant is a compound which causes an immune response to be higher and stronger, so that the immune system comes into contact with the attenuated virus more, so that it can recognise the antigens of the virus and provide immunity. They are a necessary part of the vaccine if you want it to work well.
- Ammonium sulfate is used in the process of purifying the proteins in the synthesis of a vaccine. It is also found in bread and flour, so you’d better learn to enjoy rice if you want to avoid it.
- Formaldehyde is used in the treatment and purification of vaccines and stops contamination. Most of this is removed before the vaccines is shipped, although some remains.
In my personal and scientifically backed opinion, the war against disease is a hundred fold more important than the mum-led war against vaccines. Do you want your child to die a slow, painful, agonising death? If not, then shut the fuck up with your so called “facts” you got from Yahoo Answers and get your kid vaccinated.
I am going to sound derogatory, but if you don’t have formal education in at least biology, you have no role to talk about the way vaccines should be done. You have no idea of the actual function and mechanism in which they work, and you have is a vague knowledge that mercury used to make people mad, formaldehyde is used in embalming and that ammonium sulfate and aluminium phosphate sound scary.
Vaccinate your kids if you want them to live. End of. If you don’t then you clearly don’t love your kids and would prefer to see them die of completely preventable diseases.
This has been a rage filled, alcohol induced response from a scientist.
Antivaxxers who link the vaccines to autism especially piss me off. Even if it WERE true and not falsified at all—after all, Andrew Wakefield completely falsified his data for his supposed vaccines-autism study and got his medical license revoked for it—so fucking what? These people act as if autism is more of a death sentence than measles.
There is a reason infectious diseases are no longer the first cause of death among children in developed countries.
Vaccines are that reason.
The anti-vax people are literally saying they’d rather have a dead child than an autistic child.
HERD IMMUNITY
“hey I don’t want my kid to become autistic based on some horseshit”
which is fine. whatever, you’re a shitty parent.
except what you’re also saying is
“…I also don’t give a shit if my unvaccinated kid transmits deadly illnesses to other kids”
when was the last time you knew someone who died of polio?
all this, plus a lot of people can’t be vaccinated for reasons outside their control — maybe they have an autoimmune disorder, or the vaccine’s not free and they can’t afford it, maybe they’re a kid and have a shitty anti-vax parent, whatever.
these are the people who most need herd immunity; not only in that they don’t get to choose whether or not they’re vaccinated, but also in that poverty, autoimmune disorders, extreme youth, etc make infectious diseases more deadly.
if you can be vaccinated and you choose not to be, you are endangering these people. your choices affect the people around you. the choice not to act is still a choice. ultimately you have to make your own choices based on what you think is best, but you better be really fucking sure of the science behind your decision before you choose not to be vaccinated or not to vaccinate your kids.
