@freemo The problem is that there is *no* education around vaccines these days, either medical or holistic :) I have talked to a group of senior vaccinology doctors in Poland last year and asked them when was the last countrywide vaccine information campaign - and their response was a blank stare :) So in a way, medicine is losing the war with anti-science scammers by walkover.

@kravietz ious to see how much those sorts of programs effect the vaccination rate numbers.

@freemo
The problem is that insufficient studies have been done on the interactions between adjuvants.

Have any studies on the interactions between the aduvants in one vaccine with the antigens in another vaccine given in the same shot or at the same time EVER been done? If great effort is expended to insure the right adjuvant gets delivered with the right antigen, it follows that the same amount of effort needs to be expended studying the unintended "cross-contamination" between adjuvant-adjuvant and adjuvant-antigen combos.

You know what the largest segment of new vaccine doubters is? Physicians. They're the ones who actually see the fallout from this great human guinea pig laboratory.

All of the above is from the W.H.O. in their talks on the fact that vaccines need new marketing. THEY are the ones lamenting the complete lack of studies.

@sda Its a bit of a misnomer that every combination must be tested before we can rule out harm. In statistics if there was a harmful reaction that was significant between mixing vaccines we would see it in the data from the populous who generally take many overlaping vaccines. The only way we wouldnt notice it is if the effects are so rare that it would be lost as statistical noise. If thats the case it is a non issue anyway since its so rare it effects few people.

@freemo

Well, the WHO doesn't seem to agree with you:

"... we're really only in the
beginning of the era of large datas, sets, where hopefully
you could START to uh, kind of harmonize the databases for multiple studies, uh, and there's actually, uh an initiative under way, uh, Helen, there, uh, uh, may want to comment on it to try get more national vaccine safety database linked together so could start to answer these type of questions that you just raised."[about antigen/adjuvant cross reactions]
- Dr. Robert Chen, Brighton Collaboration (at the Global Vaccine Saftety Summit Geneva 2019/12/3)

@sda @freemo sure, more studies could always be useful - but the effects of vaccines and their ingredients has been studied multiple times. It's easy for people, even smart people like physicians, to be tricked by confirmation bias, but actual studies have found negligible harm compared to the huge benefits.

@mewmew @freemo
So, you know drain cleaner A is safe. You know drain cleaner B is safe. Mix them together.

> but actual studies have found negligible harm compared to the huge benefits.

Institute of Medicine
... studies designed to examine the long-term effects of
cumulative number of vaccines or other aspects of the immunization schedule have not been conducted.

... existing research has not been designed to test the entire immunization schedule

No studies have compared the difference in health outcomes... between entirely unimmunized populations of children and fully immunized children.

@sda @freemo vaccines aren't drain cleaners. These chemical compounds don't always mix in the body and are usually not reactive in a harmful way with each other.

@mewmew @freemo

No, obviously the're not drain cleaners. That's an analogy. They DO mix in the body and react unpredictably with antigens they weren't designed for. This is stated
very clearly many times at the Global Vaccine Saftety Summit Geneva 2019/12/3

@sda @mewmew @freemo

> No studies have compared the difference in health outcomes... between entirely unimmunized populations of children and fully immunized children.

Well, we could compare child mortality rate with current children vs before the various vaccines were invented. I think we can imagine the results already.

@nerdman @mewmew @freemo

Yes, and everyone's imagination is different. The WHO is trying to devise actual science to convince people... doctors... that vaccination is better than not vaccination. They currently do not have any.

@sda @mewmew @freemo

So if your kid got bit by a rabid dog you wouldn't vaccinate them.

@nerdman @mewmew @freemo
I mean dogs get vaccinated for
rabies. People do not.

@sda @mewmew @freemo

People do. Once they get bit by unvaccinated dogs. Because otherwise they die. We don't get vaccinated preventively because it involves getting jabbed in the abdomen, I assume this is extremely painful.
@sda @mewmew @freemo

It's not an idea. It's a question. I'm just retarded and put in the incorrect punctiation sign.

@nerdman @mewmew @freemo

Sorry. I'm behind the times. Rabies vax IS available for humans at high risk... but they don't do any good AFTER your kid is bitten.

@sda @mewmew @freemo

> Treatment after exposure can prevent the disease if given within 10 days. The rabies vaccine is 100% effective if given early, and still has a chance of success if delivery is delayed.

@nerdman @mewmew @freemo

You are correct.

"Vaccination after exposure is neither a treatment nor a cure for rabies; it can only prevent the development of rabies in a person if given before the virus reaches the brain."

@nerdman @mewmew @freemo @sda

Holy shit, I wrote my response before I saw yours and we both said almost the exact same thing, lol

@dave @mewmew @freemo @sda

We're consistently citing what we know about science or the dogma we adhere to :).
@dave @mewmew @freemo @sda

I'm sorry about that because their existence makes me happy. Imagine having to have 6 kids to ensure at least 2 get to adulthood.

@nerdman @mewmew @freemo @sda Keep this toot away from the preggo fetishists or the anti-vax community is about to get larger.

@nerdman @mewmew @dave @freemo

Problem is... science is ALWAYS changing. The science of yesterday has an inconvenient way of becoming ridiculously obsolete.

@sda @mewmew @dave @freemo

Sometimes yes. Sometimes no. Einstein showed that Newton's laws of motion weren't universal.

Yet F=m*a is still king for pretty much everything humans do.

@sda @nerdman @mewmew @freemo

Ok, but the records of children dying (or being disabled for life) from diseases like Polio, Measles, etc., don't change.

We know that vaccines work. The angle you seem to be pursuing is that there may be some negative side effects that we aren't yet aware of.

@dave @sda @mewmew @freemo

To be fair I am retarded and I did get all of my shots. Perhaps the negative effect is that we're kind of not evolving our immune systems anymore but rather we're complementing them with science.

Which is all fine and dandy until the apocalypse comes and there are no more vaccines.
@nerdman @dave @freemo @sda vaccines only work if you have an immune system, the whole point is that they give you the exposure so you don't die from learning to fight the disease
@mewmew @dave @freemo @sda

Yes, but... It's like getting cars. they stop you from walking. Which is excercise. Which is good for your heart.
@nerdman @dave @freemo @sda that's not how the immune system works though. It's like getting a car and running on a treadmill - it's better for your health since you're not risking getting run over on your way to work.
@mewmew @dave @freemo @sda

Yes, but if your immune system hasn't worked out, when a new virus named Corona-chan comes around will it then have what it needs to fight back, given there's no vaccine? I just don't know.
@nerdman @dave @freemo @sda Yes, because the immune system isn't a muscle. The immune system is weakened after fighting off a disease because many immune cells die. If it doesn't have to fight off diseases as much, it remains stronger.
@mewmew @dave @freemo @sda

I'm just saying. We're stopping some elements of nature working on us. Which is good, but sometimes not. Like burning wood or oil for heating? Global warming.

You can't poke the water here and not cause ripples over there. Me personally, yay science.
@nerdman @dave @freemo @sda nature is rough and unforgiving. People don't argue we shouldn't cook food because we'd be stopping elements of nature from working on us. Our biggest advantage is our big brains and we should use them to deal with things that we have more problems with, such as disease.
@mewmew @dave @freemo @sda

I know I know. I'm just saying there's always SOME negative side to EVERYTHING, even if you have to look with an electron microscope to find it.
@nerdman @dave @freemo @sda that's fair, but we don't need to exaggerate the negative to make it look like both sides are nearly equal.
@mewmew @dave @freemo @sda

I'm not trying to. I'm just trying to find some common ground and then say, "it's not so bad bruh. Don't worry about it so much."

Kind of like I try to do with Terry and nCov.

@nerdman @mewmew @dave @freemo

I got all my shots as well. Unfortunately... or maybe fortunately, there was no measles vax before I had the mildly unpleasant bout with them. Same with mumps and chicken pox.

@sda @mewmew @dave @freemo

If I recall correctly, if you get no immunization and mumps you go sterile. Which is good if you don't want children.

@nerdman @mewmew @dave @freemo

They used to say you'd go sterile if the mumps "dropped." Apparently that was extremely rare, but severe, so talked about.

@sda @mewmew @dave @freemo

With vaccines, this appears to no longer be a problem.

Like the only problem I see with vaccines is what I'm talking to @mewmew , that we're not quite evolving naturally anymore, which is good because today we can create vaccines and cures instead if seeing how many survive the next black plague equivalent, you feel me?

@sda @nerdman @mewmew @freemo

I'm not sure how the mechanism works, but my understanding is Chicken Pox is a weird disease where you actually want to get it as a kid, because as an adult it's much more serious.

Measles, though...measles has killed around 200 million people. That you only remember it as "mildly unpleasant" doesn't really matter. It is potentially fatal.

@dave @sda @nerdman @freemo Yeah, selection bias is probably a big factor there. If he died from measles he wouldn't be making this argument.

@mewmew @dave @nerdman @freemo

Almost everyone I knew had measles. Nobody I know died from them.

@sda @mewmew @nerdman @freemo Dude, this is yet another anecdote. If you think that 200 million number is fake news, feel free to do some fact-checking.

Also, the measles vaccine was invented in the 60s. How old are you that no one you know would have been vaccinated from it?

@dave @mewmew @nerdman @freemo

In 1980, 2.6 million died from it.

Where DID that 200 million number come from?

@sda @mewmew @nerdman @freemo

"Measles came to us from cows, a slight modification of the bovine rinderpest virus. Although now regarded as a relatively benign disease, measles devastated the Native Americans, who had never been exposed to it, and, along with smallpox, was a principle reason the invading Spaniards prevailed. It has been estimated that between 1840 and 1990, measles killed about 200 million people worldwide."

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/arti

And if 2.6 million died in 1980 alone, try to guess how many have died over the last 200 years.

@dave @mewmew @nerdman @freemo

About what I figured. An irrelevant number designed to cause an emotional response.

@sda @mewmew @nerdman @freemo

"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶t̶i̶s̶t̶i̶c̶ an irrelevant number designed to cause an emotional response"

- Joseph Stalin

@dave @mewmew @nerdman @freemo

Ah, Godwin. Figured it'd show up eventually. Guess that means whatever vestige of discussion there was is now over.
<shrug>

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@dave @sda @mewmew @freemo

Stalin had a lot of epic (for an evil character) quotes. Even if a lot of them are misatributed. That one's a fave. Also love:

- Power comes out the end of a long gun
- One man, one problem. No man, no problem.
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