Thanks for posting this. As a health care professional with considerable knowledge on the subject I can say that this is what P&N is all about.
Remember those days when a doctor gave you a shot of penicillin?
I got strep a lot as a kid and yes i remember those shots in the ass. holy jesus did they hurt! once i saw the nurse pull out the metal syringe and the bottle of penicillin out of the fridge i know it was going to be a bad day.
Black babies get double
I got one of those in boot camp and then we had to go running afterwards. That was not a fun day.
The number of antigens is practically irrelevant. On a daily basis, a child's immune system will be challenged by far more antigens in the environment than the number received through vaccination.They do, each vaccine is usually trivalent or more. And they give 2-3 vaccines at a time. By the time a baby is 3 they've been exposed to a good 100 antigens. The vaccine schedule is fairly aggressive. It wasn't always that way. I personally had the older and later schedule and I turned out fine. The conspiracy nuts probably had the earlier and closer together schedule :awe:.
Yes I agree it depends how many times they elicit an immune response and run the risk of developing autoimmunity, like 6 vaccines by 2 months old.
/grabs chair and popcorn
Waiting for anarchist420 and Texashiker to post in thread
They don't know... thats kinda the point.
Between the lack of friendly bacteria to modulate the immune system (sterile food, antibacterial soap, sterile everything, no more truly fermented/cultured foods such as sauerkraut and yogurt made the old fashioned way, etc) AND everyone having all these antibodies to every possible pathogen ever IMO increases the risk in those genetically susceptible. There are so many autoimmune disorders that lots of people are going to be susceptible to one variety or another if exposed to enough pathogens.
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My personal non-scientific opinion, for over 200,000 years people are with dirty hands, drank creek and river water, ate barely cooked meat, ate forged rooted with dirt on them,,,,.
Then in the past 100 years we have running water, septic, (the romans had that also), antibacterial soap, and vaccines.
We no longer allow our kids to get exposed to pathogens.
Last weekend my grandkids were playing in a creek that runs close to my house. They were drinking the water straight out of the creek. They might get the squirts, but I feel that kind of exposure is good for them.
the part you forgot about those first 200,000 years, is that ave. life expectancy never crested ~45 (and for the first 95% of that time, was about 35). Infant/mother mortality was at an alarming 30%.
the last 100 years, though...I mean. facts.
Because life expectancy is an average people were't living to 45 they either died as an infant or lived to regular age until they were too slow and a tiger ate them.
The fastest way to boost life expectancy is a lower infant mortality rate. I think antibiotics and C-sections etc. are more responsible for that than vaccines. Vaccines are useful don't get me wrong. Polio and MMR are bad news.
Because life expectancy is an average people were't living to 45 they either died as an infant or lived to regular age until they were too slow and a tiger ate them.
The fastest way to boost life expectancy is a lower infant mortality rate. I think antibiotics and C-sections etc. are more responsible for that than vaccines. Vaccines are useful don't get me wrong. Polio and MMR are bad news.
Way, way out there.
Aaaah! They DO exist!
My sister-in-law worked for a time at a Michael Dunn Center. The vast majority of people there had developed extremely high fevers immediately after vaccination and suffered severe and lasting nervous system trauma, to the point of being forever unable to live outside of an institution. While extremely sad, this does not bother me regarding vaccines, for I know that if a very large number of people do absolutely nothing, some small number of them will develop horrible, debilitating illnesses for no apparent reason. This is life.
