I’ve always been a bit wary about vaccines. Sure I know that they are developed to stop some really horrible diseases and keep everyone safe but still, they are something to be concerned about as we have seen over the last few days. Read this article about a schoolgirl dying after she received her HPV vaccine jab. She isn’t alone, many others have been crippled or are suffering other symptoms.
You see the problem with these vaccines is they actually introduce an inert form of the virus into our systems. Simply put many people suffer from that and it can trigger a bad reaction. Clearly the intent is for this reaction to cause less deaths and other symptoms than the actual disease itself. Overall then society gains as it theoretically saves a few lives on paper.
The problem is though that in reality not everyone gets the virus naturally. So deaths from the virus are actually nowhere near the figures calculated. However because people go and deliberately get a vaccine, to prevent the virus, they then roll the dice which are not the same as the calculations they are expecting.
For example if you had a virus that killed or injured 5% of the population it infected. Lets say the vaccine killed or injured 1% of those injected. Lets then say that it here are 5 million people at risk.
So the virus could kill or injure 250,000 people.
The vaccine could kill or injure 50,000 people.
A clear saving and well worth the £5 per shot of the vaccine. The figure that would be quoted is the 250,000 deaths or injuries.
However, when you consider that most of the population would not get this virus at all. Either they stay in their little communities and with modern communications many people work from home and travel only short distances or those out and about minimise contact and take precautions such as washing hands, Vitamin C etc. or are careful with their partners. Once we are down to 1,000,000 people getting the virus then the odds are the same. However, a million people is a lot of people. Maybe in the population centres where contact is inevitable and the environments are offices and shops. Leading to the idea that any vaccine should be targeted at high risk groups but not everyone.
Decisions, decisions. Deliberately roll the dice now or wait and see if the dice is rolled later. Personally, I would argue against compulsory vaccination for anyone with a calculation of the risk of acquiring the virus naturally in each area against the failure rate of the vaccine itself. However, I suspect that many would choose to roll the dice later merely because it is in our nature to put things off. Such is life.
What I would like to see though is a test with every vaccine. Something we can try on a sample of our blood or something we can grow from our stem cells that will accuratelygive us the outcome of the vaccine. A guinea pig made up of your own body cells. I’d keep mine in the fridge. At least then you wouldn’t die or be injured and you would know you need to take precautions like many diabetics or similar do now because of your bodies lack of defences.
On the other hand our government is wanting to inject everyone with the swine flu virus. Should we just inject everyone with everything and wipe out those with any genetic malfunctions? It will make us stronger as a species. That sounds familiar though. I should look it up as wasn’t it something another socialist party wanted to do. It’ll come to me in a minute.
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. — Douglas Adams (1952 – 2001)
Decisions on life and death
I’ve always been a bit wary about vaccines. Sure I know that they are developed to stop some really horrible diseases and keep everyone safe but still, they are something to be concerned about as we have seen over the last few days. Read this article about a schoolgirl dying after she received her HPV vaccine jab. She isn’t alone, many others have been crippled or are suffering other symptoms.
You see the problem with these vaccines is they actually introduce an inert form of the virus into our systems. Simply put many people suffer from that and it can trigger a bad reaction. Clearly the intent is for this reaction to cause less deaths and other symptoms than the actual disease itself. Overall then society gains as it theoretically saves a few lives on paper.
The problem is though that in reality not everyone gets the virus naturally. So deaths from the virus are actually nowhere near the figures calculated. However because people go and deliberately get a vaccine, to prevent the virus, they then roll the dice which are not the same as the calculations they are expecting.
For example if you had a virus that killed or injured 5% of the population it infected. Lets say the vaccine killed or injured 1% of those injected. Lets then say that it here are 5 million people at risk.
So the virus could kill or injure 250,000 people.
The vaccine could kill or injure 50,000 people.
A clear saving and well worth the £5 per shot of the vaccine. The figure that would be quoted is the 250,000 deaths or injuries.
However, when you consider that most of the population would not get this virus at all. Either they stay in their little communities and with modern communications many people work from home and travel only short distances or those out and about minimise contact and take precautions such as washing hands, Vitamin C etc. or are careful with their partners. Once we are down to 1,000,000 people getting the virus then the odds are the same. However, a million people is a lot of people. Maybe in the population centres where contact is inevitable and the environments are offices and shops. Leading to the idea that any vaccine should be targeted at high risk groups but not everyone.
Decisions, decisions. Deliberately roll the dice now or wait and see if the dice is rolled later. Personally, I would argue against compulsory vaccination for anyone with a calculation of the risk of acquiring the virus naturally in each area against the failure rate of the vaccine itself. However, I suspect that many would choose to roll the dice later merely because it is in our nature to put things off. Such is life.
What I would like to see though is a test with every vaccine. Something we can try on a sample of our blood or something we can grow from our stem cells that will accuratelygive us the outcome of the vaccine. A guinea pig made up of your own body cells. I’d keep mine in the fridge. At least then you wouldn’t die or be injured and you would know you need to take precautions like many diabetics or similar do now because of your bodies lack of defences.
On the other hand our government is wanting to inject everyone with the swine flu virus. Should we just inject everyone with everything and wipe out those with any genetic malfunctions? It will make us stronger as a species. That sounds familiar though. I should look it up as wasn’t it something another socialist party wanted to do. It’ll come to me in a minute.