I'm trying to think of a corollary between guns and shingles.
Once you've had chicken pox, you're immune, as long as you keep getting re-exposed to it.
By eliminating that horrific disease, that for the most part causes itchy red spots, you eliminate the natural "booster shot" effect you get from the little brat down the street getting chicken pox.
We eliminate what is, for most, a slight nuisance only to have it cause horrible consequences down the road.
This kind of thinking is predicated on the idea that through legislation we can keep everyone safe, from everything, forever.
Which is even crazier when you look at the push to require teenage Boys to get the HPV vaccine.
We can't tolerate an itchy red spot disease but we're willing to accept the percentage of girls who have serious reactions including seizures and paralysis in order to "prevent, well, maybe prevent a certain percentage of a few types of a cancer" that a small percentage of women will get.
And now they want to mandate that boys get it too, so they don't get Cervical Cancer.
I hope none of your readers need an explanation as to why that's a stupid idea.
Maybe they can google "What is a cervix"?
I know. And why would they want boys forced to get a vaccine for girls? TAM that's why. Total Addressable Market. It's complete nonsense.
Thanks for the thoughtful comment.
And, as an aside, I'd love enforced gun ownership over enforced vaccination any day.... not that I would ever advocate such a tyrannical thing.
But wait, doesn't Sweden or Norway or Switzerland (you know, the countries where ALL of the women have blond hair and blue eyes and who love to romp around in the snow wearing their teeny-tiny bikinis) require their adults to keep their fully automatic military weapons at their homes in case of an invasion by...shit, I don't remember who they're threatened by anymore.
You always hear about progressives wanting to emulate those country's other social programs, why NOT guns in every home?
It's Switzerland.
Sorry if I ramble.
It's just that I'm not used this kind of adult discourse and I get going and stuff just comes out.
Never apologize, never surrender! /grin
Anti-vaxxers are seen as the worst people on the planet. They are even called "baby killers" by Bill Gates. We all need to protect ourselves from people like Bill Gates more than we need to protect ourselves against chicken pox! Herd immunity has been debunked. Great article Tom.
Thanks Stormie, and you are right... People like Gates are really evil.
Agreed. How many chambers have to be in the cylinder of a gun before you are not playing Russian roulette?
MIGHT get a disease, or WILL cause needless injury and death, I know which one I choose, even if I didn't know that there are cheaper and safer alternatives to vaccination.
I had a discussion just yesterday about how many people die each year from something like chicken pox compared to the number of people who suffer "adverse reactions" to vaccines. That's such an innocuous sounding phrase, much better than seizures or death.
There's a coordinated advertising campaign to make people look to drugs as the solution to every ache & pain & inconvenience and it's all about making money for Big Pharma.
Agreed.
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