Posted: May 26, 2013 10:43 pm
GrahamH wrote:
Ignoring the conspiracy Bullocks, isn't it the case that 100% vaccination would likely reduce the chance of getting the target disease to less than the risks from side effects? Obviously this is no reason to stop vaccinations.
Do vaccination programs seek to balance these risks?
It's also clearly a completely different point to the supposed original one.
Someone being a leech in some modern societies, failing to get vaccinated for no real medical reason, while relying on the lack of disease due to other people being vaccinated, could potentially in some circumstances be in the best position, having no risk of any possible negative vaccine side-effects while being unlikely to catch the relevant diseases, though in reality such circumstances might be rarer than some leeches would like.
And, of course, they are relying not merely on vaccines actually working, but on there not being too many other leeches or miseducated anti-vaxxers around, since if there are too many of them, the disease might kick off and put them at risk of infection again.