| 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. |
The mercury content used in vaccines are only trace amounts.
Most vaccines don't even use mercury.
Of the vaccines that use mercury, they use ethylmercury which is insoluble in water, easily expelled from the body and not linked to neurological damage. You are thinking of methylmercury which is soluble in water, extremely difficult for the body to expel and is highly toxic. In a single can of tuna you can find 400x the amount of methylmercury than the trace amounts of ethylmercury used in vaccines. Anti-vaccine folks have yet to rationally explain how a vaccine can damage a person due to the mercury content when tuna, something known to contain hundreds of times more, does not.
Furthermore, vaccines provide inactivated viruses for your immune system to practice on. That is why you develop immunity.
And finally, your closing statement is completely illogical. Why would it ever be a bad thing to be immune to a virus? Even though there are more viruses out there, your risk of infection and infecting others is significantly decreased; the least effective of the scheduled vaccines providing immunity to 95.7% of those who have received it.
