Originally Posted by
Irving
Umm, still not comparable. Vaccines aren't vaccinating for autism, and don't contain deactivated autism. It's simply not the same. *As far as the flu, you can't say that it's 100% impossible to get the flu from a vaccine, just the same as you can't say it's 100% impossible to get a baby from sex with birth control. Are the chances low? Of course they are, definitely even lower than birth control babies.
All that said, we have this conversations every single year. In the spirit of most of our threads where we pretend to be experts, but **disclose in small print that we're not, I'm usually left with the impression that most people who are actively against getting a flu shot fall into the following categories that I've completely made up:
90% - Don't care if people get the shot one way or the other, they just don't get it because they rarely, if ever, contract influenza themselves.
88% - Would get ten flu shots a year if the Democratic Party suggested that they shouldn't.
9% - Don't get the shot because they are other people, or have themselves, gotten the shot and still caught some strain or another, so what's the point?
.09% - Believe that injecting a virus, the most prolific, mutable, adaptive, killer of our species, since the beginning of time, dead or alive, is just asking for trouble.
.01% - Aliens/government/ex-wife did it.
*Comparing vaccines to condoms is as dumb as this yearly conversation.
**I could be a doctor/barber/lawyer, you don't know me.
Now let's get a "The science is settled" meme and a picture of FlapJack in here and we can wrap this up!
EEEEETA: Nobody take my post too seriously. I shouldn't have to add a smiley to demonstrate that I'm giving everyone a good ole' ribbin'.
