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by AshamedCaptain 2260 days ago
There's something very wrong in your message, practically the same bias as the vaccine "denialists".

First you establish your order of trust as:

1. Government

2. For-profit-corporations

Then you acknowledge that your actual practisting order of trust is:

1. Your gut (why is "the entire schedule frankly insane"?)

2. European Governments

3. Your American Government

The later ranking is not justified at all by your early statements.

If you trust governments better than corporations as a matter of choice, fine. It may actually be a sensible choice in this bullshit world. If you trust your gut more than governments fine, it may also be a sensible choice, even.

However, be consistent, and realize your biases.

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Your biases are so ingrained you don't even realize them.

Yes, I am biased against for-profit corps. Which one, especially among the pharmas, do you trust?

No, this is not my gut, this is my experience with for-profit corps and my knowing their past and recent history.

And you say there is something wrong with my message, but you did not state one single fact to argue. You are the one arguing from your gut and your belief that our govt and for-profit corps give a shit about anything other than your money. They only care that you can't prove the tort.

And who said I trust governments? You did. I didn't say that shit. I said our government should run these programs, but what I didn't say was that we need governments made up of actual "public servants", not the corrupt, self-dealing lying pieces of shit that take a boatload of money from corps of all kinds, the bigger the cozier.

Your thinking you are so smart is getting in the way of your education.

I'm in the same boat as OP. The entire childhood vaccination schedule is insane because it lacks longitudinal studies demonstrating effectiveness and safety.

Why is varicella in the schedule? The plague upon our house that is chicken pox will hopefully be annihilated one day, only to reappear in a much more painful form later in life as shingles because you need a constant re-up of the varicella vaccine to keep it at bay. What the actual fuck is going on here and who controls the schedule?

Regulatory capture and goal-seeking driven by profit-seeking B-school acolytes.