Apparently all the anti-vaccination loonies that infest our region recon the radio waves would make them grow a 3rd head or something and they shouted down the towers....
I'm not into tinfoil hats and alien space rays nor antivaxing but with the first grandchild on the way the question was asked about our whooping cough vaccinations, etc. Now whilst my folk's generation were no doubt rapt in the ability to have my generation protected against dreaded polio, etc there are worrying signs that WC vaccination may be turning out like resistance to antibiotics as I discovered-
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-problem-of-waning-pertussis-immunity/
You can't innoculate newborns but they do with expectant mothers in the hope that their immunity will be passed on to bub and as much as you can inoculate family members with the triple shot it's now apparent that some of us carry the pertussis virus with no symptoms and with declining immunity generally, WC outbreaks have come back to haunt us again.
We're talking about long term epidemiological risk here and none of us can be smug about the long term intergenerational effects of vaccination, anymore than we can with the use of pharmacological treatments. With ready access to computing power since the 1980s we've been collecting and crunching a lot more data and interpreting it which can lead to discovering recent things like anti-inflammatories being associated with significant increased heart attack risk. Life's a risk/return tradeoff with everything we do and while I never believed in a new heart in a bottle of pills, you might still be gobbling your statins like the missus, while I smoked most of my life but I've been vaping my nicotine fix into my third year now on a real health kick. Nothing like it with the odd coffee now Treasurer, but how's the booze and the waistline with you risky thrillseekers?
