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IWANCHYSHYN: When people say that childhood illnesses that vaccines prevent are just uncomfortable
and it's better to let your immune system get some exercise. You know, polio can paralyze
you. Measles, mumps, chicken pox, you can get encephalitis, meningitis, you can be brain
damaged for life. Since we don't have people walking around, or having a relative die from,
or people surviving with this we're not reminded of that now. So we tend to forget.
Vaccinations have become easier to administer. What they've done is they've purified it,
so that nowadays the process of manufacturing this protein that you want your body to react
to is very specific, and it's less likely to be full of contaminants that may contribute
to you having a fever for a day or two (ie. after a vaccine) or even a sore arm. So, a
lot of those things are a lot less frequent now than they used to be.
Somewhat in Canada, and tragically so in the United Kingdom, you've had people be afraid
to immunize their children. Unfortunately, even with all the withdrawals there's still
people who believe what he said. It resonates with this anti-establishment stuff. We also
know from various conflicts or economic situations in the world that diseases that we thought
were almost gone could make a comeback.
If you look at the risks of the vaccines, they are very slight. For many of them it's
in the .0001% range. And if you look at it objectively, and look at the risks, which
are tiny, and if you look at the benefits, the benefits so outweigh the risks that
I think one would be a fool not to get a vaccine.