(03-10-2019, 03:41 AM)Louisabell Wrote:(03-09-2019, 04:13 AM)Relaxo Wrote: https://gizmodo.com/it-took-two-months-a...37421?IR=T
Now, I don't think pushing an agenda based on a case report of one person is useful at all (on both sides) because in a population so large, these events are so statistically insignificant that it shouldn't factor into anyones decision making. That is the problem with basing conclusions on anecdotal information. We need to move beyond this way of thinking, and the pro-vax side doesn't help by continuing to foster that type of thinking.
"these events are so statistically insignificant that it shouldn't factor into anyones decision making"
("the events" being - a bad reaction to a vaccination - the reaction of the body to getting ill from the disease)
This is a "false equivalency".
Why? Because the disparity in the risks are 'rare vs common'.
Additionally:
an unvaccinated child getting tetanus from one of the ways tetanus is transmitted is statistically 'normal' (that's what being in a physical body is a lot about - susceptibility to varying degrees to disease); so there's no "insignificance" to contracting tetanus if you choose not to have a tetanus vaccination... it's fairly 'par for the course'.
Therefore, an article describing an actual event that occurred isn't fear-mongering... but descriptive statement of cause and effect... if it's fear producing that's because contracting a life threatening illness is frightening
particularly watching a child suffering from a preventable illness - it's stressful through terrifying to completely heartbreaking
Many people having children nowadays have no living memory in their families of a time when whole communities would be decimated from disease.
I'm pro caution, pro checks & scrutiny, pro vaccination and anti 'big pharma'
negative attitudes to vaccination are formed by the first world 'bubble'