Listen here people a science professional is about to chime in.
Vaccines, today, are considered completely harmless for most of the population. If you’re wondering what is in Vaccines, I can tell you straight up that it’s not ‘poison’ and ‘dead babies’ or whatever the hell else I’ve heard on the internet.
Vaccines are dead/weakened versions of the viruses/bactera that can potentially infect and harm you. By injecting them into your body, your white blood cells, the guard dogs of your body, learn to identify and attack them; thus, later, when you are hit with the actual disease, your body’s reaction is quicker and more effective.
In fact, your body itself naturally discards the vaccine within a number of days, with just the training of your white blood cells left behind.
For people who are not considered immunocompromised, the side effects of the vaccine are minimal. Yes, you will sometimes feel a tad ill after getting the shot or feel inflammation at the injection point. That is your BODY’S NATURAL RESPONSE to ANY sort of foreign invaders, ie the disease contained within the vaccine.
Fun fact: you don’t feel terrible when sick because of the virus/bacteria itself, but because your body is fighting back. Fever? Your body is trying to burn off the invader. Mucus? Body’s trying to trap it. Swelling at cite of injection? Your body is trying to isolate it.
So, again, your body is just doing its natural thing.
Now, for ANYONE who says “but there’s dangerous chemicals like mercury in there!” or “dead babies!” Just… No. The chemical thing comes from the fact that A FEW vaccines have a mercury-containing compound in it that helps preserve the biological component; however, this compound is no more dangerous than table salt. Table salt, or NaCl, is a benign chemical made of two highly reactive chemicals. Exposure to raw sodium (which you can see here) is not advised, and we add salt, a stabilized form of sodium, to a lot of food.
In fact, the mercury accusation began as an accusation that it was the cause of autism in babies; while raw mercury and some mercury-containing compounds that are reactive can result in birth defects, the compound used in vaccines is proven stable and has seen no adverse effects in humans.
As far as any other chemicals go, really, you are made of ALL chemicals. The same chemicals found in a viral vaccine, by and large, can also be found in an organic apple found at the farmer’s market. They’re just in different quantities, and, if your afraid of the near-dead virus, well, you should be more concerned about everything you eat, because it’s the same stuff.
The dead baby thing? I have no clue how that started that, but it probably has to do with how we get the virus and biological components. We get them mostly from using host cells, like E. coli, to breed the viruses in highly controlled and contained environments. Seriously, you need some serious certification to work with viruses.
Now, if vaccines are so harmless, then why can’t EVERYONE use them? Well, not everybody’s body reacts the same to them. This is where the small portion of our population, known as immunocompromised people, come in. For some, like babies, their immune systems aren’t at all trained to handle even basic microbes in the air, so they need to build SOME immunity before we start throwing viruses at it. For old people, their systems are tired and worn, and it takes a lot more to fight the viruses, even the weakened ones. People who are going through treatments like chemotherapy might, in part, have to suppress their immune system, because they are fighting their own body gone wrong. Then, there are bodies that react TOO strongly to the vaccine, resulting in a dangerous allergic reaction.
This, by and large, is a very small percentage of the population, and this is why vaccination is so important - it creates herd immunity. Basically, the people who can be vaccinated - which is most of us - create a wall that blocks the virus from spreading to your baby nephew, your 70-year-old grandma, your sweet teacher going through cancer treatment, and your best friend who is allergic to a component of the flu vaccine. You, and everyone around you, form the barrier to entry, the Great Wall of ‘fuck you disease.’ The virus is a bullet, and, where the immunocompromised are the citizen, you are Superman or Captain Marvel. You can get hit, you barely flinch, and the virus is stopped in its track; to your ‘civilian’ friend, though, that attack can be deadly.
Now, herd immunity is only as strong as its parts, which is why the antivax thing is so fucking stupid. A child without vaccination MIGHT be able to fight off the same virus, but the virus will have time to take root and fester, becoming transmittable, while a vaccinated person just stops the virus cold. A child who is largely healthy, though, can pass this to another unvaccinated kid, to an unvaccinated teen, and through the crowd. The more kids without vaccination, the more holes in the herd the virus can exploit. It sneaks and works its way until it finds that immunocompromised individual, and then it really digs in.
While a healthy kid may be able to fight off the virus, an already sick/immunocompromised person just can’t.
Their body is already strained, untrained, and/or simply without the means to deflect the virus. The virus uses the body as its personal paradise, eating YOUR nutrients and using YOU to reproduce, killing cells until there is not enough cells running to keep YOU running.
The virus has claimed another victim.
And there was nothing you could do about it.
By vaccinating your fucking kids.
By getting your fucking vaccinations.
I don’t care if you don’t like needles. We got a lot of things in spray form now, and, even then, suck it up buttercup. You want to kick a deadly disease in the ass? Armor up, get your body trained into shape. That vaccine gets your prepared for the worst. YOU become the hero of this story, plugging the holes in the heard where the virus stalks, stopping it in its track.
Vaccines are no more dangerous than an apple. An apple a day keeps the doctors away; your vaccines every year keep people alive and here.
A fucking scientist, BS in Biochemistry, published author on several medical papers, a PhD student who starts medical school in the fall, and an advocate for autism awareness and vaccinations
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