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Nirvana
08-02-09, 05:25 PM
hppp://www.immunisation.nhs.uk/About_Immunisation/Science/The_life_cycle_of_a_vaccination_programme (http://www.immunisation.nhs.uk/About_Immunisation/Science/The_life_cycle_of_a_vaccination_programme)

The life cycle of a vaccination programme

How an immunisation programme works:


When no immunisations are being given against a disease, the number of people catching it is high. People's attention is focused on the disease and its effects.
When an immunisation programme against it begins, the number of people catching the disease goes down. Some of those people may experience side effects from the vaccine, though these are usually mild.
As more and more people are immunised, the threat of the disease becomes much less, and the disease effectively disappears.
Attention turns naturally from worry about the disease to concern about possible side effects of the vaccine.
People start to question if the immunisation is necessary and whether the vaccine is safe.
Some people stop being immunised.
Now that fewer people are being immunised, the disease starts to spread again. People are reminded of how bad the disease is and turn to immunisation to avoid it.
As more and more of the population get immunised, hopefully the disease disappears altogether and the immunisation programme can be discontinued.
So they want us to believe that we are a bunch of ungrateful people who have no concern for others and we stop vaccinating because there are 'possibly' a few side effects! :eyeroll:
Yeah we are so dumb to not see how wonderful and great these vaccines are. That I have not succumbed to their pressures makes me an ignorant fool! :giggle::LMAO::LMAO::LMAO:

Momtezuma Tuatara
08-02-09, 08:07 PM
so why did number 8 not come after number 3? After all, they said the disease effectively disappears...

MinorityView
09-02-09, 01:02 AM
It is a big world MT. Obviously, the vaccine works (with the exception of mumps, pertussis and a few others) but cases come in from places like Albania and Mauritania (does this country still exist?) and then the disease comes back and people will realize how devastating it is (but who ever worried about Hep B in babies?) and start vaxing again.

My sentences are getting more parenthetical by the day. Bad habit, sorry!

Time for another bizarre historical factoid. When I was reading Herodotus at university, the professor explained his tendency towards run on sentences by pointing out that the footnote had not yet been invented. Anything he wanted to say had to go into the text. Plus, there were no erasers, he wrote with lamp black on papyrus, which was expensive, so he wrote what he wrote and that was that. Given those limitations he wrote damn well.

Nirvana
09-02-09, 09:28 PM
MV, when you say some vaccines work, you mean temporarily right? For few months or years?