Stefl1504 said:
Rath said:
Metallicube said:
Good for kids and old people/ those with weak immune systems? Yes. Good for anyone else? No. Better to let your immune system work itself and do its own thing. It's like George Carlin says, your immune system needs germs to practice on.
And I don't know about you, but I don't exactly trust getting shot with high concentrations of mercury into my bloodstream. Those who create the vaccines will always be one step behind anyway, since there will always be new viruses out there that are immune to it.
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Yes, letting your immune system practice on measles, mumps, rubella, smallpox, polio, tetanus etc. would be a great thing /sarcasm
It's true that exposure to germs strengthens your immune system, however exposure to deadly diseases kills/cripples people. Also the vaccines haven't fallen behind - smallpox is now only in labs, polio is nearly gone too and measles, mumps and rubella have all been drastically reduced.
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@ bolded, smallpox still being existent in labs is actually pretty dangerous, if it ever got loose it would be one hell of a catastrophy... but it is a good biological weapon nowadays :D - the human of today sadly never encountered the smallpox, so we do not have anything that can harm the illness... its like being a native american first encountering european diseases... well probably not that bad since the smallpox isn't gone that long... well to the point... they should just kill them all (the smallpox ;P)! KILL IT WITH FIRE!
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It's still dangerous, true, but think of the lives that have been saved by it's eradication. As recently as 1967, 2 million p[eople wer dying of it every year, and that was even WITH widespread vaccination in many countries. It's been 35 years since the world's last case of smallpox, so even wihout factoring in population growth or anything since then, that's 70 million lives saved.
