Re: Vaccines HAVE to go, there can be no compromise on this issue.
- From: Mark Probert <markprobert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:41:55 -0400
D. C. Sessions wrote:
In message <tKQxg.95$v75.20@xxxxxxxx>, Mark Probert wrote:
Brian, do not fall into the "mortality trap" of the anti-vaccination
loons. The key thing is that vaccines have substantially reduced the
incidence of many diseases and, in some situations, made the infections
milder. These factors, in addition to the lowering of the already low
death rates, have also reduced the incidence of severe disability. The
loons would have you focus on the death rates and not the incidence rates.
Party pooper.
:)
When you have a set of clear steps in a causal chain, it's
much more fun to look at only the end of the chain which
supports your position -- or at least can be made to do so.
Exactly. What the anti-vac liars and Mercury Militia do is to ignore a major factor in why vaccines are so important, and focus on something that had been positively affected by societal and medical changes. Unfortunately, the disability caused by the diseases was still causing disability in spite of better sanitation and supportive care.
Example: the auto industry has made a great deal of US DOT
research that found that accident mortality is lower in SUVs
than in smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles. That reputation
for safety is one reason that the behemoths are popular in
the soccer-Mom set.
Even notice that the smaller the soccer mom, the larger the SUV?
Well, after a decade or more promoting them the DOT got to
looking a bit more at their own data and found that deaths
per passenger-mile are no lower for SUVs than any other type.
It seems that, yes, other things being equal you're better
off being in a Hummer than in the Accord the Hummer runs into.
(Of course, it doesn't help much when the other vehicle is
a semi.) However, the rate of accidents for SUVs makes up
for it -- the dang things don't avoid wrecks at all well
for various reasons.
Quite true. Having one of the larger ones, I can attest that it is not a nimble as many other cars I have driven. In fact, our van is more nimble, but I get protests from the kid in the wheelchair.
Add in the fact that quite a few of the fatalities in smaller
vehicles are due to being impaled by the ladder frame of an
out-of-control SUV and the picture changes beyond recognition.
Been there (at said accident scene for picture taking.)
All things considered, it seems best to identify the contributing
factors in a chain of events so as to address each one. Modern
treatment has dramatically reduced the deaths from typhoid and
pneumonia, and that's a good thing. However, it seems best to
reduce the need for all that goodness by not getting them in
the first place, no?
Agreed. To follow your right on topic analogy, accident (disease) avoidance is better than surviving the accident (disease).
A true revolution in 3rd world health will occur when an effective malaria vaccine is developed.
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