You do know that vaccination doesn't magically prevent one from catching the bug, do you? Your immune system is just better equipped to deal with it, so that you show no or only mild clinical signs.
Drlee wrote:This is nonsense. You are articulating a distinction without a difference in some cases and dead wrong in others.
Really. Do educate me how immunization works.
All those places where the vaccinated people mill about? But they have nothing to fear from the unvaccinated child, they have immunity injected into them, so why quarantine it?
And again you are ignoring that the danger is to the unvaccinated.
Stormsmith was asking for the unvaccinated child to be quarantined, so that her - vaccinated - children be safe. Since all the good and upright people and their kids are vaccinated, the unvaccinated kid is no danger to them. If that kid gets sick, it's obviously the problem of the anti-vaccination family, and not affecting the general population. So they are only a danger to themselves, not everyone else. No need to quarantine them away.
Kaiserschmarrn wrote:I don't think vaccination is the right strategy to counter that risk. A low estimate of unknown viruses in mammals is approx. 300,000. I have not found an estimate for humans, but the number of viruses that are either unknown or cause no or unknown problems must dwarf the number we currently vaccinate against. However, for all of them exists the possibility that they mutate either by going from animal to human or, as you say, become more contagious or dangerous, etc.
Mere gibberish. You make no point at all.
Her (?) point is that new viruses can come out of the huge repository that is the animal kingdom - swine flu, bird flu, anyone? Vaccination won't prevent that from happening and the hysterical demands for quarantining or forced vaccination are hilarious.
And for the record, I'm not against vaccination. I just don't think the pro-vaccination arguments in this thread are very convincing.
Checking my privilege - yep, still goodWhat would happen if the Sahara became socialist? - For ten years, nothing, then we'd run out of sand.