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That vaccines cause autism/autoimmune diseases, don’t work, etc. Typically not ‘the risks of vaccinating children against STDs outweigh the benefits’.
Hepatitis A is an STD in the same way Chickenpox is. Yes it can spread that way but that's not generally how it happens.
Just because Hep A is a Hep virus doesn't mean it is what you think it is. Chickenpox is a herpes virus.
....like come on man.
No you fucking come on man. In nearly every single post in this thread jeroboam has said he is not point blank refusing to vaccinate, he just doesn't see the value of giving his kids 45 vaccines when apparently 11 is fine elsewhere, and doesn't trust doctors because the medical establishment not only burnt its credibility during covid but refuses to own up to it, meaning they haven't learned a fucking thing from it. And then you come along treating him like a tinfoil hat wearing nutbar, blatantly ignoring what he writes in favour of arguments you have defeated before. And then when he brings up objections - my kid isn't at risk of getting hepatitis like an inner city orphan, the flu vaccine doesn't stop the flu, etc you go 'oh yeah but do it anyway' and then go right back to acting like a robot.
I mean ffs hydroacetylene reduced jeroboam's argument to ‘the risks of vaccinating children against STDs outweigh the benefits’ for brevity to explain how it differs from typical anti vax arguments and you mansplained chickenpox in response. You weren't even arguing with hydro.
I did tell him at first that I didn't mean to accuse him of being generally anti-vaxxers, I do think their was some confusion at that point, but then he went on and did drop an anti-vaxxer talking point "And I don't believe vaccine risks are as low as they say they are."
That's the kind of thing anti-vaxxers say!
Elsewhere he says he will just have a chicken pox party instead of getting the vaccine!
Even if it wasn't intended as anti-vax that's another talking point they use and a terrible idea.
Guy is saying he doesn't want to get vaccines and appears to have some basic misunderstanding of facts and to repeat anti vax talking points...... like what do you want?
All the medical stuff is more complicated than anyone wants to tolerate dealing with (like the discussion about the efficacy of a flu vaccine) but people are resistant to both being told they are incorrect by an expert and to actual doing research to understand the considerations, like what do you want?
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