{"id":6533,"date":"2015-02-03T22:22:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T03:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6533"},"modified":"2015-02-03T22:22:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T03:22:23","slug":"so-vaccinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6533","title":{"rendered":"So. Vaccinations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some ground rules should be established in these conversations. Everyone should agree:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vaccines greatly decrease the chance of contracting the disease which they target.<\/li>\n<li>If a significant proportion of the population is vaccinated, then epidemics are unlikely.<\/li>\n<li>This &#8220;significant&#8221; number does not have to 100% to be effective. Flu shot vaccination rates hover around 50% for the last few years according to the CDC, and no epidemics have occurred.<\/li>\n<li>Vaccines are not 100% risk free, although globally speaking the benefit outweighs the risk. This, of course, does not help either the person getting sick or having an allergic or auto-immune reaction.<\/li>\n<li>All currently required childhood vaccines are for horrible illnesses. Measles for example <em>&#8220;Most patients with uncomplicated measles will recover with rest and supportive treatment.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>(from the wiki). Like chicken pox, in childhood in the 50&#8217;s and earlier .. almost all kids got the Measles. Oddly enough people survived.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My question is, if you think measles vaccinations should be mandatory, why don&#8217;t you think flu shots should be mandatory?<\/p>\n<p>If you think free riders are a problem and deserve active censure, should childless middle age adults (or older) be similarly censured?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some ground rules should be established in these conversations. Everyone should agree: Vaccines greatly decrease the chance of contracting the disease which they target. If a significant proportion of the population is vaccinated, then epidemics are unlikely. This &#8220;significant&#8221; number does not have to 100% to be effective. Flu shot vaccination rates hover around 50% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consider-the-following","category-ethics-morality","category-marko"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}