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Mississippi has a population of 3 million people. West Viriginia has a population of just under 2 million people.
California has a population of 38 million people. Florida and NY have populations of around 18 million people each.
HOWEVER, it is because Mississippi and West Virginia mandate childhood vaccinations w/o exemptions is why they have lower rates of contagious diseases???? They have fewer PEOPLE to catch these diseases. That statement is absurd from Suzy Q. ROFL CITIES in those other 3 states have far more people, and TOURISTS, than the entire population of those 2 states combined.
Flunked logic.
Irrelevant of population those states have not had measles cases in decades while measles cases have been popping up much everywhere else. States that are equal in size but with less effective vaccination policies have had worse and in some cases, significantly worse outcomes. Neither state is an island or has some great degree of isolation that would greatly deter infection, they simply have smart, effective vaccine policy. In Mississippi, with 99.7% of incoming kindergartners being fully vaccinated, there's no reason to think that infection by any number of vaccine-preventable diseases would be a problem.
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A 1999 study analyzed data on children collected from the CDC’s Measles Surveillance System between 1985 and 1992. The study evaluated differences in the relative risk of contracting measles among vaccinators and exemptors. Compared to people who were vaccinated, exemptors were were 35 times more likely on average to contract measles. Their data also showed that if the proportion of exemptors increased, so would the number of measles cases among the whole population.
The bottomline is simple, get kids vaccinated as a condition of attending school, get rid of all exemptions but for medical reasons and these diseases go away.
Your illogical ranting and lack of common sense aside, the data is pretty clear that the vaccine mandates in Mississippi and West Virginia haven't been just effective, but remarkably so. They are truly a model for the rest of the country to follow, at least when it comes to rational and scientifically backed data and not being ruled by weird conspiracy theories.
Irrelevant of population those states have not had measles cases in decades while measles cases have been popping up much everywhere else. States that are equal in size but with less effective vaccination policies have had worse and in some cases, significantly worse outcomes. Neither state is an island or has some great degree of isolation that would greatly deter infection, they simply have smart, effective vaccine policy. In Mississippi, with 99.7% of incoming kindergartners being fully vaccinated, there's no reason to think that infection by any number of vaccine-preventable diseases would be a problem.
The bottomline is simple, get kids vaccinated as a condition of attending school, get rid of all exemptions but for medical reasons and these diseases go away.
Your illogical ranting and lack of common sense aside, the data is pretty clear that the vaccine mandates in Mississippi and West Virginia haven't been just effective, but remarkably so. They are truly a model for the rest of the country to follow, at least when it comes to rational and scientifically backed data and not being ruled by weird conspiracy theories.
I just want to add this. Irrespective of vaccination, disease will spread more rapidly where there are more hosts. Areas with high population densities like New York and California are going to be more prone to VPD than sparsely populated states like Wyoming or Idaho are. Nothing magical there. As the overall population of the USA and the world increase, infectious disease will become more of an issue.
It doesn't make Mississippi or West Virginia's vaccination law irrelevant. Its simply those states have different demographic characteristics than the area from Washington, D.C. north to Boston has along the eastern seaboard.
In short, a good law is a good law, regardless of where it is implemented.
The immunity from the whole cell pertussis vaccine lasts longer than that from the acellular vaccine. Yes, adults need boosters. That is why there is an effort to get adults to take the Tdap. Most who have not done so are not anti-vaccine, they are just unaware of the need for the vaccine. Meanwhile, the emphasis on vaccinating pregnant women and family contacts of infants is one way to protect that vulnerable population. It is stupid for a pregnant woman to refuse the Tdap and the stupidity is compounded if the mother exposes her child to unvaccinated family members.
Lower prices for HPV vaccine have been negotiated in poorer countries, making them cost effective there.
HPV has not been proven as a cause of cancer. Can you prove it is?
You either can't or won't read the very clear posts answering this. Please keep up if you can, or get someone to help you. Repeating things over and over is why this thread is intolerably long.
Can only speak for my own family, but if my daughter doesn't want to be injected during her pregnancy, as an adult woman, that is her business. No laws against that, are there?
If your daughter doesn't want to be injected during pregnancy, then let's hope she steers clear from unvaccinated children who may be harboring measles or rubella. Or she might not have a pregnancy to worry about. As far as I know, there aren't any laws at all against trying for a miscarriage, but an abortion would be safer.
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FYI, both my daughter, who is a stay at home Mom, and her husband are both certified teachers. They most certainly could homeschool their own children. They have considered that. However, that will NEVER prevent their children from staying out of society. THAT is what you so conveniently ignore with all your smug mandating this and mandating that.
Why answer? We've explained this one over and over and over and over, but just like the science and biology we've shown you, you obviously aren't getting it.
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Thinking back now, about 7 years ago I got this cold and my cough took a couple of months to go away, literally. Never went to a doctor. Maybe I HAD whooping cough? No idea. It was pretty bad for a while. I myself might have had it and passed it on. No, cannot be my DPT from the 50's made me immune? Only CHILDREN get that.
If you aren't sure you had whooping cough, then you didn't have it. Something as serious as whooping cough in an adult would send you to the ER. Unless you were trying to commit suicide. Yeah, but thanks anyway for being selfish and inconsiderate by going out in public to get everyone else sick. Real big of you.
"The problem isn’t confined to the groovier bastions of Marin County and San Francisco, either; Silicon Valley is part of it too (see “The Sickeningly Low Vaccination Rates at Silicon Valley Day Cares” and its follow-up in Wired this year). The very geeks we as a culture lionize for their analytical gifts now stand at the vanguard of a plainly irrational movement that threatens to jeopardize public health."
They're both violations of the internal sovereignty of a person.
Leftist bleating by corporate establishment media. What's new.
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