| Rath said: @Happy. So she doesn't get the flu? Also it prevents her from spreading the flu to people who are more at risk from it. The risks of an severe adverse reaction to a vaccine are astronomically low and despite flu being of a low health risk to a healthy 20 year old, it is still far more dangerous than the vaccine itself. |
The risks of an severe adverse reaction to a vaccine are astronomically low as are the risks of serious complications to your health for a healthy person from the seasonal flu; consider that 0.01% of the population die from the flu in a year, and the vast majority of those people are in a high risk group (putting death from the flu at similar odds to winning the lottery for a healthy person). The risks associated with over-vaccination may not be all that low, and there is a growing portion of the medical community who are concerned that a lot of "unexplained" illnesses may be related to excessive vaccination; the unknown that people are really starting to wonder about is What are the cumulative effects of vaccination on the human body, and whether dozens of comparatively minor reaction to a vaccine can combine to make more serious conditions. To use an analogy, people use car-covers to protect the paint of their car from the elements and it works very well if you only put it on or take it off irregularly; if use irresponsibly, over time the rubbing of the car-cover on the paint does far more damage to the paint then the elements ever would.
Now, this isn't to say that vaccination is bad, but promotion of vaccination in low risk groups where the complications of an illness will be minor is moronic.
