Recent content by ex_tenebros

Why? It "unfairly discriminates" against those who choose to use public water supplies. It improperly favors bottled water users. Your whole gripe here is that the vaccination policy is "discriminatory." It should apply to everyone, you say, or it should apply to no one. You simply ignore...

Interesting principle. Let's run with it and see where it goes. Henceforward in New Jersey, every person from the age of 6 months on must take a driver's test. It's not fair to apply this mandate only to those who wish to get a driver's license from the state. Either every single person...

I really don't get this "only 50%" complaint. It's just screwy from the get-go. Let's say that a particular vaccine is "only 50% effective." That means that it prevents half of the infections that would have happened without it in the vaccinated population. Or to put it another way, of you...

From the OP: This is confirmed here. So, you were saying? Part of your problem in this discussion is that the facts of science are the same whether or not one has children. You have made many assertions on this thread that show that either you don't understand basic virology, immunology, or...

What's your point? The millions I was referring to are right here in the US of A. First off, children 6-23 months old don't attend the New Jersey public school system. So this statement is irrelevant to the discussion. However, vaccinating children that age does make sense as a public health...

Hundreds of thousands do. In fact millions do. And I do. The more people get it, the more protection those who don't get it have. That's why this is a public health issue.

No one forces parents in New Jersey to send their children to public schools either. It seems very comparable to me.

For public health reasons beyond the immediate health of the child? Yes. How do you feel about fluoridated water?

You misunderstand. First, "those who are not vaccinated" includes children who legally should be but are not. Second, the mandatory vaccination applies only to those whose parents wish to use public facilities. It was never intended to apply to everyone, or even to all children. The state...

An expert virologist's "best guess" is more reliable than a parent's untrained personal preferences. And as another poster pointed out, parents are "forced" to immunize their children only if they want to use public school facilities.

This would be important if every strain was equally contagious and equally virulent. But they are not. In fact many strains don't readily infect humans at all. It's deceptive to claim that it "stops less than 2% of strains" if those strains cause the great majority of dangerous infections in...

Vaccines work against any disease that you don't want to catch. That depends on the strain, and doesn't take account of opportunistic secondary infections. But "not dying" still leaves a lot of room for getting very, very sick, and costing the public and employers a whole lot of money. Not...

OOC, why not? Isn't it only that one person who's affected by not wearing a seat belt? It seems like the public health aspects of an epidemic are wider and more important that that, at least to me.