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Increases in vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks threaten years of progress
Development of vaccines that were not available to you and I in childhood is an incredible medical advancement. Your statement is also flawed - life expectancy is higher now than its ever been. The reasons are multifaceted and vaccination can be factored in to that. That’s all well and good - provided you’re also prepared to avoid international travel and accept the ethical responsibility of potentially endangering others, all based on personal, untrained beliefs. If you find yourself placing more trust in the voices of anti-vaccine activists than in the collective knowledge of conventional medicine, it’s worth asking - what would happen if the tables turned? If you became formally educated in virology, witnessed the overwhelming evidence first-hand, and shifted toward supporting vaccination, would your former peers simply dismiss you as having been “taken in by the mainstream”? Likewise, if I immersed myself in virology and, despite the data, emerged convinced that vaccines did more harm than good - would the broader scientific community ignore me as just another anti-vax eccentric? The real dilemma lies in who we choose to trust. And in a world where doubt is easily spread, I find grounding in one thing: statistics..... Life expectancy continues to rise. The heartbreaking images of children ravaged by Polio and Measles have faded. Smallpox has vanished. Diphtheria is virtually forgotten. Rabies? Hardly a death sentence anymore. And that’s not magic. That’s medicine, thats vaccines. Those who reject vaccination must understand - they aren’t just questioning science; they’re challenging decades of global health progress that has spared millions from suffering. -
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Crime Five Teenagers Open Fire in Krabi, 18-Year-Old Woman and Her One-Year-Old Son Injured
Sounds like a night in Alice Springs, Australia -
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Crime Five Teenagers Open Fire in Krabi, 18-Year-Old Woman and Her One-Year-Old Son Injured
Yes we all should go live in your town of Outback Australia where you have to stay up all night to guard your house from the local natives !!! -
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Is your partner other than Thai?
Disgusting behaviour ,but no surprise I remember a few years ago going through Melbourne Airport in Australia to see a man arrested for having a schoolgirl sex doll in his luggage -
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White House Considers Slashing China Tariffs to De-Escalate Trade War
Trump says "They are meeting." When asked for clarification, Trump says "It doesn't matter who 'they' is."- 1
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Increases in vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks threaten years of progress
No.. I don't get my information from 'pro-vaccine' sources - I just get the information from 'scientific sources'... You call them 'pro-vaccine'... for everyone else, its just scientific fact... Whereas the anti-vaccination propoganda can so easily be debunked and picked apart. It’s a bit of a conundrum, really. Take the flat Earth analogy: I could insist on travelling to space to see the planet’s curvature with my own eyes, or I could choose to understand and trust the science - and the testimony of those who have seen it for themselves. Biology presents a similar case. I’ve never seen a cell with the naked eye, yet I accept its existence because scientists, armed with evidence and expertise, tell us so. The reality is, we can't spend our lives independently verifying every claim. I believe Concorde flew at Mach 2, not because I witnessed it firsthand, but because the overwhelming body of evidence leaves little room for doubt. Vaccination is no different. The scientific consensus, bolstered by decades of rigorous study, shows that vaccines work - and that they are overwhelmingly safe. Of course, like anything in life, there are risks. But then, even eating grapes carries a risk if you look closely enough. Do we really need to be informed about it ? Must we really be outraged about it? I mean, let’s take a step back - what exactly is the moral dilemma in using fetal fibroblast cells, especially if they come from long-ago, ethically approved sources? If these cells - replicated for decades in a lab - can be used to develop life-saving treatments or vaccines, is that not a profoundly humane application? Where, truly, is the ethical conflict? I struggle to see one. We’re not talking about new terminations or ongoing exploitation, but about scientific progress built on a legacy that, however complex, now holds the potential to preserve countless lives. Isn’t that a moral good in itself?
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