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Life is so easy for us these days that we have idiots who doubt the efficacy of childhood immunization.
The husband of a long time family friend went on at length about how he "never gets immunized for anything" because of some crack-pot theory that immunization causes health problems.
This whole line is so off the tracks that you have to begin tangentially opposed to the crack-pot theory and explain medicine from the very beginning.
Fact is that the biggest threat to your health is being alive. As soon as you're born you start dying, as they say. It's just we've had it so well for so long that we forget there are preventable diseases all around us.
I wonder if he'll doubt the efficacy of the interferon he'll need when he gets hepatitis from a nasty restaurant in his hip Toronto suburb? Or spread the endemic flu to the immuno-compromised or elderly people who will likely die as a result?
The best way to keep everyone healthy is risk mitigation. For a group of people who are likely to spend money on products and services that are ethical and fair trade it's sort of mind blowing that they don't understand the concept of their health is an important part of dealing with communicable disease.
But yes, it's all about you. Immunization causes like allergies and stuff, man! I've got some bee pollen you can take instead...
Let them eat vegan cake.
I find it shocking how similarly righteous and ignorant both the religious fundamentalists and the affected hip bohemian urban organic types can be. And even worse yet, lament the lost faith in progress our sad strange future has provided for a lot of people.
The husband of a long time family friend went on at length about how he "never gets immunized for anything" because of some crack-pot theory that immunization causes health problems.
This whole line is so off the tracks that you have to begin tangentially opposed to the crack-pot theory and explain medicine from the very beginning.
Fact is that the biggest threat to your health is being alive. As soon as you're born you start dying, as they say. It's just we've had it so well for so long that we forget there are preventable diseases all around us.
I wonder if he'll doubt the efficacy of the interferon he'll need when he gets hepatitis from a nasty restaurant in his hip Toronto suburb? Or spread the endemic flu to the immuno-compromised or elderly people who will likely die as a result?
The best way to keep everyone healthy is risk mitigation. For a group of people who are likely to spend money on products and services that are ethical and fair trade it's sort of mind blowing that they don't understand the concept of their health is an important part of dealing with communicable disease.
But yes, it's all about you. Immunization causes like allergies and stuff, man! I've got some bee pollen you can take instead...
Let them eat vegan cake.
I find it shocking how similarly righteous and ignorant both the religious fundamentalists and the affected hip bohemian urban organic types can be. And even worse yet, lament the lost faith in progress our sad strange future has provided for a lot of people.
