you’re still wrong. and dangerously so.
let me tell you a story. have you heard of swine flu? you know, that thing that shut down schools and caused mass panic? yeah, that swine flu. do you know why it’s so dangerous? because some people’s immune systems went into overdrive trying to get it out.
there’s something called a cytokine cascade where basically your body freaks out, and gets so stuck freaking out that you die.
it’s not that swine flu is any worse than normal flu. quite the opposite, in fact. it’s because it’s weaker than normal flu that makes it more likely to trigger a reaction like these cytokine cascades, especially in people who are young, fit, and healthy. people think this is why the spanish flu epidemic of 1918 was so bad. you know, the flu epidemic that KILLED MORE PEOPLE THAN THE WAR IT JUST FOLLOWED. that one.
THERE IS NOTHING UNNATURAL ABOUT VACCINES. VACCINES ACTUALLY RELY ON NATURAL PROCESSES.
they are about as unnatural as, oh, wearing a shirt. you have to get used to wearing a shirt, but it means that you get protection from the cold, the wet, and even from sunburn.
what vaccines do is work with our immune system. they bank on natural reactions. what a vaccine does is show our immune system a dead version of whatever we are vaccinating against. imagine your immune system as a police force. without training, they may not fire their guns correctly; they might get panicked and crash their cars and shoot innocent bystanders. a vaccine is like someone who comes in and shows them how to shoot a particular target. it introduces things slowly to your immune system so that when your immune system sees it “for real”, it IS able to fight it off naturally - without freaking out too much and killing you, OR letting the bad guy get a foothold in your body.
we did not bring these new diseases into the world. most of them are deeply ancient.
vaccination is something we’ve been doing naturally for a long time, too. remember when you had chicken pox? you probably had it when you were little, right? and that’s a good thing, because when you’re so young, it’s a lot easier on the body than it is when you are older. if you end up with chicken pox at say age 21 instead of age 2, you will very likely end up in the hospital. in essence you were ‘vaccinating’ yourself by getting the chicken pox when you were younger. you were showing your body’s policemen what to shoot for, and what to not panic too bad about as they fight.
if you read about the history of vaccination, you’ll see how it grew out of an observation that milkmaids who grew up around cows - and had a light case of something called cow pox - grew up then to not come down with a very severe case of cow pox later. it’s like my example with chicken pox earlier. because they had a little, easy case of cow pox when they were little, their immune systems knew how to deal with it if cow pox wanted to infect them again later. and since their immune systems were trained to deal with it, they were able to be healthy.
again, these diseases aren’t something we’ve invented. why do you think it’s MILKMAIDS who were at risk for getting COW pox when they were little? if you answered “because they worked around cows” - ding ding ding, you are correct!
finally, let me point out the most important thing.
THIS ISN’T A PERSONAL CHOICE.
IT IS INSTEAD SOMETHING WE MUST DO TO HELP PROTECT OTHERS.
this is why vaccines are an essential and non-optional part of society. if you want to drive a car, you need a license, right? otherwise you are putting other people on that road at risk because you don’t know what you are doing. the vaccines we regularly get are sort of like that, but for interacting with others.
there are people out there whose immune systems don’t work properly. this means they are much, much more at risk from things our immune systems have no trouble with.
if your immune system, say, doesn’t know how to deal with whooping cough because it’s never been trained by the vaccine, you have a better chance of not kicking it out immediately. your immune system has to take the time to learn about it before killing it since it didn’t have any earlier instruction. this can lead to you getting sick, but even if you don’t, it definitely leads to you passing it along to others.
whooping cough, by the way, is making a comeback, and it’s no joke. babies die from it. even adults who get through it ‘just fine’ find themselves coughing for most of a year afterwards. not polite little coughs, either. the kind of coughs where breaking one of your own ribs is an incredibly common side effect.
whooping cough is the “kindest” of all the things we vaccinate against.
WE DON’T VACCINATE AGAINST THINGS PEOPLE HANDLE NORMALLY.
WE VACCINATE AGAINST THINGS THAT KILL.
WE VACCINATE AGAINST THINGS THAT CRIPPLE.
WE VACCINATE AGAINST THINGS THAT MAIM.
WE VACCINATE AGAINST THE WORST OF THE WORST.
BOTH BECAUSE WE DON’T WANT TO GET SICK OURSELVES, AND BECAUSE WE DON’T WANT TO BE THE ONE PASSING IT ON TO OTHERS.
i hope that clears some things up.
please do some reading about the effects on the world of things like the flu epidemic of 1918, or about how bad polio was before a vaccine was developed, or about how whooping cough is increasingly killing babies because some people refuse to get themselves vaccinated.
please remember that when the polio vaccine came out, people cried because it meant they would no longer have to worry about their child getting sick and spending their entire lives in an iron lung.
please remember that people are pushing to eradicate polio by vaccine from the entire world because it is that bad, and so are other things we vaccinate against.
if at the end of that you want to tell me to my face that vaccines are still “unnatural” - if at the end of that you still want to advocate the senseless deaths of millions - if at the end of that you still are completely fine with contributing to such mass anguish and agony -
if you want to say that at the end of this, you should take a good look at yourself in the mirror, and then kindly go eat some very natural hemlock.
but i’m hoping instead you see that vaccines ARE natural, and use natural pathways to help people, and should be embraced because the lack of them actively hurts others.
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