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So a question to everyone in favour of mandatory vaccinations: Are you happy with RFK Jr mandating you inject yourself with whatever he says?
I'm in favour of vaccines. I think everyone who can get them, should get them.
However, we can't overlook the fact that many governments have overlooked human safety and rights in favour of political plays. If injecting bleach into people to cure autism gets votes, what makes you assume that that won't fall under the same mandatory vaccine rules?
And even if you do trust the government to act properly, not everyone is able to receive vaccines. Sure you can be exempt from them if you show proof, but can the government bureaucracy fairly, accurately and quickly roll out a program for that?
Oh I don't think that fucking idiot should be able to hold any type of office, I'm just curious how all these viruses and vaccines work. Because I thought that you can still pass on viruses even if your community is 100% vaccinated.
A 100% vaccinated population would cause the virus to go extinct. This is likely even at very high rates of vaccination. Viruses have to reproduce at massive levels to infect someone. Many will die just trying to escape the body and a vaccinated peoples immune system will make that very tough. If any do escape many will die in the environment before reaching somone to infect inside them enough to start replicating. A vaccinated person will already have antibodies and the virus will be snuffed out before it can replicate much and leave the body. 100% vaccination is essentially impossible. All medical interventions are stressful on a body and there will always be some people that cannot have certain interventions as it will do more harm than good or the risk is to high vs the risk of the disease. Elderly, babies, immunocompromised, etc. They rely on herd immunity which is an vaccination level so high it causes the extinction event of the disease. For smallpox it was something like 80% but measeles was like 95% but measeles is know as an insanely contagious disease.