I'm autistic and support vaccines. The risks are so low, the benefits so great, and large-scale participation is so crucial, that I believe vaccination should be enforced by law ( Read more... )

So... I got a flu shot today. The local pharmacy was selling them for a reasonable price, and since I'm a college student (read: "disease vector"), I needed every chance I could get NOT to be curled in bed for a week with my grades steadily turning into a pile of unidentifiable mush.

For me, the flu shot was also an immunization against another, ( Read more... )

Vaccines have risks; but the risks are low.

The risks from not getting vaccinated are higher than the risks from the vaccinations themselves.

Childhood mortality started to drop when children began to be vaccinated, and has continued to drop as vaccination rates rise. Not all of the drop in mortality is due to vaccines, of course; but the rate ( Read more... )