DC Tom

Point of note: scientific data is ALWAYS manipulated. It has to be, to sort "signal" from "noise." The question shouldn't be "Is this data manipulated?" but "Is this data PROPERLY manipulated?"

Yes. You idiot.

No, epidemics are the widespread transmission of disease.

Again, misunderstanding vaccines as preventing disease, when they prevent epidemics.

Well, that's interesting. As though they had forewarning.

Ever notice that all the dumb arguments you've had, all have one thing in common? You. That's unconstitutional. Violation of the equal protection clause. Where's my right to terminate a pregnancy protected?

No, because - again - the purpose of vaccines is not to protect people, it's to prevent epidemics. I'd rather reintroduce large predators into their historical ranges. Saber-toothed tigers in downtown LA, for example. Same effect, but much better television.

It's California. It'll go to fund soda delivery via high-speed rail.

Smallpox. Effectiveness: 100%. Reward: The disease no longer exists. Risk: 1.5 in one million chance of potentially fatal reaction. Now have that conversation about risk vs. reward.

I have never told anyone that. I have told people that "I'm not autistic...I would be by your standards, but your standards are stupid, and mine are better. And since I'm a genius, if you disagree with me the problem is yours, not mine." More seriously, I'm almost certain that, by today's standards, I would have been diagnosed as being on the spectrum back when I was 4. But the diagnostic criteria have broadened considerably in that time, basically from "Rain Man" to "weird guy in junior high who collected stamps and never talked to anyone."

But most of the time I'm too smart for your own good, because you're an idiot. "Fewer" vs. "less" is the fallacy of rate vs. amount.

12 pages in a month, versus...nothing, in a couple hours. Your complaint boils down to "Time exists, and I don't like it!" He has a mental illness. PTSD, from being oppressed all his life.

Like I said: "Smollett's going be lynched all over again." Liberal stupidity is nothing if not predictable.

It is, because not all vaccines are made the same way. Saying "vaccines" cause anaphylaxis, when it's only certain components of certain vaccines, is a stupid and dangerous fallacy of over-generalization. Precision matters.

Do people like their coffee aged 20 years?

I even explained it, you asshat. You have to REMOVE THEM FROM OFFICE first. That's why the qualification of "sitting" is there. It's not a difficult concept.

An allergic reaction to what? An attenuated virus? A live virus? Or the gelatin used as a stabilizer? You sensitive to any brands of cosmetics at all? All vaccines carry a risk of allergic reaction...because of how they're made. It's why there's always epinephrine nearby (whether you see it or not) whenever you get a shot.

Pretty convinced that if Chucklehead is worried about it, then it's not a problem.

This sign brought to you by the CEO of Home Depot. I'm sure AOC gives a ***** what he thinks.

Flu shots make me miserable - yes, they make you sick, because as I say above they provoke an immune response, and many of the symptoms of "being sick" are actually symptoms of the immune response to an infection. So I'm always sick for a few days afterwards. But I don't complain. Because I've had the flu. And getting sick from the vaccination is absolutely nothing like actually having the flu. I'd rather have a mild fever and runny nose for two days than feel like hot death for a solid month. Same thing with a tetanus booster. I get one every eight years (because of my wood shop). That will put me flat on my back - literally - for 24 hours. But it beats the ***** out of tetanus. Which is also why anti-vaxxers are true morons: pathetic risk management. "But the MMR vaccine means my little snowflake has a one in 70 chance of developing autism!" Well...okay, but NOT getting the vaccine means your little snowflake has a 1 in 30 chance of never getting autism because they're DEAD. Do the math.

Still mostly bull####. Allergic reactions are usually due to the vaccine media, not the vaccine (similar to how snake antivenin will save most, but kill some allergic to the horse-based serum), "don't work" usually means "not enough time to develop antibodies" or "too much time passed since the vaccination," "bring on the disease" usually means "causes an immune reaction like it's supposed to." (One of my favorite arguments to have with nurses: if all the symptoms of being "sick" with a virus are immunological responses, then doesn't the vaccine indeed make you sick by triggering that same immune response? Nurses hate me.) Actual reported cases of serious side effects are usually 1 in 20,000 or greater, depending on the vaccine (flu is about 1 in 250,000, DTaP about one in 15,000.) Mild side effects are almost certainly overreported because they're so often self-reported through VAERS by idiots who don't understand correlation isn't causation (or who don't understand that "soreness at the site of the injection" isn't a side-effect, it's a feature of having a frickin' needle stuck in your arm, you morons.) I'd be perfectly fine with people opting out of vaccinations, on the principle of "If you're going to be that stupid, you've earned the right to suffer." But I also understand that purpose of vaccines isn't to prevent illness, it's to prevent epidemics by attenuating transmission, so that sort of attitude would in fact be more dangerously anti-vaccine than your average anti-vaxxer.

It's not really. A lot of the "other crap that gets bundled with vaccines" has been taken out of vaccines because of the complaints of the anti-vaxxers.

They are now...

I can think of some people who would embraces 2 and 4.