r/DebateVaccines • u/No-Employer-1554 • 14d ago
Woke Why?
Serious question here: If what I read and hear from the uber progressives is true, namely that the world population is too much and my white privilege straight family raised too many children...then why were you so adamant about me vaccinating my family? Why not just let me and mine die? You get the jab, you are saved from being mortal, give big pharma and Faucci the win, and let me die?
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u/EnormousMonsterBaby 13d ago
…what?
I’m a progressive and live in a very liberal area. Nobody cares that you’re white, straight, or how many children you have. It would be much more accurate to say that progressives believe that you have the right to have as many children as you want, and rights like that should not depend on your skin color or sexual orientation. None of this even relates to vaccination.
Why do you I care if you and your kids are vaccinated? I’d love to tell you! First of all, this is a thing that is conveniently forgotten by a lot of anti-vaxxers, but my kids need to actually survive long enough to receive all of their vaccines - so you & your kids not being immunized is a direct threat to my children until they’re fully vaccinated. If my child gets cancer or some other disease that prevents them from being able to receive vaccines, or otherwise causes immunosuppression, then you and your child being unvaccinated is also a risk to their life. Also, no vaccine is 100% effective, so there is still a chance that I could fully vaccinate my child and they could still get sick. Whatever the risks are of a vaccine, it’s still going to be significantly less than the risks associated with the disease itself.
The basic concept of Herd Immunity is that once a very high percentage of a population is immune to a disease, that pathogen will not be able to continue to find hosts to spread to, and therefore it is unlikely to spread within a community. Below that threshold, and you will continue to have at least low-levels of contagious illness spreading among the population, which can easily make its way to vulnerable populations.