Let’s be real, who needs vaccines? The World Health Organisation states that “Each year, vaccination averts an estimated 2-3 million deaths from diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough) and measles.” However Sarah from “Vaccines don’t save lifes” (yes that’s the correct spelling for the website) states that you shouldn’t vaccinate your child as pharmaceutical companies can’t be trusted. The question now is, should we mandate them? Or let the parents decide? For everyone who is unsure about the ratio between vaccine supporters and critics, here’s a vision representation:
However sadly, you can’t simply say the minority is wrong, which we tend to have a bad habit of doing. Every year people will die from vaccine preventable diseases, …show more content…
The actual vaccine is a concoction of the pathogen and other ingredients, such as stabilisers and preservatives to form a vaccine dose. As Sarah so kindly pointed out, a lot of trust is put into pharmaceutical companies who have been known to cross ethical boundaries in the search of profit. However this reason is quite ridiculous considering the years of testing vaccines need to pass the high standards of the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) which is regulatory body for therapeutic goods in Australia. However that said they are always exceptions with the vaccine injury court in America having to pay 2.6 billion dollars in compensation for vaccine injuries with the court claiming incidences of vaccine injury. This figure could be significantly more as it is likely incidents go unreported throughout the globe. I’m not some mum with a blog claiming vaccines are linked to autism, however I feel you’re an idiot if you don’t acknowledge the possibility that what you’re injecting into your Childs arm could cause some serious reactions, including …show more content…
What about herd immunity? This idea of course states that “the more people are immune to an infectious agent, the less likely an immune-compromised individual is to come in contact with it.” (The people’s chemist. 2014.). I’m sure anyone who has even googled vaccines will have come across this idea. Despite common belief, recent studies have shown less than 40% of the population need to have been vaccinated for everyone the reek the benefits of herd immunity. So, to all those who get shamed into vaccinating their children, you aren’t selfish for not vaccinating your child. You aren’t putting other children in danger and your child should not be discriminated against by not being fully vaccinated, which does occur especially in places such as kindergartens. This argument is commonly used to shut down sceptics of vaccines, although as long as we educate the population I’m certain more than 40% of the population will vaccinate, maintaining our precious herd immunity.
Vaccines are expensive, in the 2015-2016 budget Australia said they spent 1.3 billion in the development of new vaccines and other medicines. That is a huge amount of money that is funded by taxpayer money. To mandate vaccines it would cost a ridiculous amount of money. The cost of enforcing vaccines as well as the difficulty it would provide to enforce, leads people such as the anti-vaccine group “Hear the Refusers” to the conclusion that it is not worth the effort and
However sadly, you can’t simply say the minority is wrong, which we tend to have a bad habit of doing. Every year people will die from vaccine preventable diseases, …show more content…
The actual vaccine is a concoction of the pathogen and other ingredients, such as stabilisers and preservatives to form a vaccine dose. As Sarah so kindly pointed out, a lot of trust is put into pharmaceutical companies who have been known to cross ethical boundaries in the search of profit. However this reason is quite ridiculous considering the years of testing vaccines need to pass the high standards of the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) which is regulatory body for therapeutic goods in Australia. However that said they are always exceptions with the vaccine injury court in America having to pay 2.6 billion dollars in compensation for vaccine injuries with the court claiming incidences of vaccine injury. This figure could be significantly more as it is likely incidents go unreported throughout the globe. I’m not some mum with a blog claiming vaccines are linked to autism, however I feel you’re an idiot if you don’t acknowledge the possibility that what you’re injecting into your Childs arm could cause some serious reactions, including …show more content…
What about herd immunity? This idea of course states that “the more people are immune to an infectious agent, the less likely an immune-compromised individual is to come in contact with it.” (The people’s chemist. 2014.). I’m sure anyone who has even googled vaccines will have come across this idea. Despite common belief, recent studies have shown less than 40% of the population need to have been vaccinated for everyone the reek the benefits of herd immunity. So, to all those who get shamed into vaccinating their children, you aren’t selfish for not vaccinating your child. You aren’t putting other children in danger and your child should not be discriminated against by not being fully vaccinated, which does occur especially in places such as kindergartens. This argument is commonly used to shut down sceptics of vaccines, although as long as we educate the population I’m certain more than 40% of the population will vaccinate, maintaining our precious herd immunity.
Vaccines are expensive, in the 2015-2016 budget Australia said they spent 1.3 billion in the development of new vaccines and other medicines. That is a huge amount of money that is funded by taxpayer money. To mandate vaccines it would cost a ridiculous amount of money. The cost of enforcing vaccines as well as the difficulty it would provide to enforce, leads people such as the anti-vaccine group “Hear the Refusers” to the conclusion that it is not worth the effort and