2011-02-03, 09:18 PM
Anonymous Moose Wrote:So in otherwords, some freedoms are good excuses for not taking the vaccine, and other freedoms are not. Someone that rejects the vaccine for religious purposes is a prefectly fine guy, but I who refuse to take a vaccine because I do not want toxic materials injected into me is a moron that is putting society at risk.
Double standards and hypocrisy amaze me.
Who said it is okay? It's not okay, and basic statistics show us that not taking a vaccine because it's against your religion (or you don't believe in the vaccine) will result in a lot of cases where people get the virus/sickness you vaccinate against.
Here, look at this image:
Yemen, Indonesia and Sudan, countries which had been declared polio-free since before 2000, each reported hundreds of cases - probably imported from Nigeria. On May 5, 2005, news reports broke that a new case of polio was diagnosed in Java, Indonesia and the virus strain was suspected to be the same as the one that has caused outbreaks in Nigeria. New public fears over vaccine safety, which were unfounded, impeded vaccination efforts in Indonesia. In summer 2005 the WHO, UNICEF and the Indonesian government made new efforts to lay the fears to rest, recruiting celebrities and religious leaders in a publicity campaign to promote vaccination.
In the United States on September 29, 2005 the Minnesota Department of Health identified the first occurrence of vaccine derived polio virus (VDPV) transmission in the United States since OPV vaccinations were discontinued in 2000. The poliovirus type 1 infection occurred in an unvaccinated, immunocompromised infant girl aged 7 months (the index patient) in an Amish community whose members predominantly were unvaccinated for polio.

