Giving credibility to anti-vaccine nonsense
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Updated: November 18, 2009 3:33 PM
I can’t believe all the local papers have carried the same infuriating nonsense about the alleged dangers of getting the swine flu vaccine.
Here’s a classic example how just because there are two sides to an issue that it follows the anti-vaccine people have just as much right to their opinions as those in the medical profession are. Hogwash!
Do the research online and find that all their concerns have been totally debunked as just so much misinformation and the stuff of yet more conspiracy theories.
As we used to say in Accounting 101: garbage in, garbage out.
There are far more serious dangers to our health than the swine flu vaccine, which has been shown to be perfectly safe – such as not getting the vaccine and dying.
Hasn’t that already happened to far too many young people to show getting the vaccine is far safer then not getting it and risk dying? People aren’t dying from getting the vaccine, you idiots, they’re dying from not getting it.
Yet, here we have the local papers giving space, and thereby some amount of credibility, to such baseless spreading of the seeds of doubt over the safety of this vaccine.
Just because there are two sides to a question, it doesn’t always follow that they are both right.
It’s only a question of when, not if, the human race is going to get culled in a pandemic like with the Spanish flu.
If not the swine flu, then it’ll be another new virus lurking around the corner.
When that happens I imagine these writers will still be saying vaccines are not safe, as the body count goes up.
And while I’m biting the hand of the editors that have often printed my own letters, I just hope no one took what these letter writers said too seriously, as that would be the ultimate tragedy of editors not knowing when the “other” side of an argument has nothing to substantiate it as in the case of those against the vaccine.
Robert T. Rock
