Unvaccinated Student Sickens 21 Other People in New York City

[Esteemed Jimmy]

Honestly, refusing to vaccinate your children should be classified child abuse.

[Sestak]

How can an unvaccinated person sicken a bunch of vaccinated people?

Because vaccines don’t ficking work like that.

There is a substantial minority of the population who are more susceptible to certain diseases than everyone else, to the point where they can still get sick even when they are vaccinated. Those people rely on the pathogen which causes the disease not to be introduced into their bodies at all; for this to be ensured, everyone around them must also be vaccinated.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

How can an unvaccinated person sicken a bunch of vaccinated people?

Because vaccines don’t ficking work like that.

There is a substantial minority of the population who are more susceptible to certain diseases than everyone else, to the point where they can still get sick even when they are vaccinated. Those people rely on the pathogen which causes the disease not to be introduced into their bodies at all; for this to be ensured, everyone around them must also be vaccinated.

Vaccines work best in people who need them the least, the healthy and young. The least effective are the people who are most vulnerable, young children and the elderly.

The objective is to eliminate these diseases from existence by denying them as many opportunities to spread and reproduce as possible. When people don't get vaccinated, it provides the viruses with host to sustain itself and spread from.

The effectiveness then acts like a bullet proof vest and the virus like a shut gun. The vest doesn't cover your whole body, just like the vaccine doesn't protect everyone, or everyone completely.

I hope these analogies help to explain the process and not confuse people more.

[Horus]

It's the Haredi, go figure. At least the Amish keep their diseased kids in the middle of nowhere and not in the center of Brooklyn.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

How can an unvaccinated person sicken a bunch of vaccinated people?

The same way people who get flu shots still get the flu.

The point of vaccines isn't that if you're vaccinated you're forever immune to the disease. That's true of most people, but not all. And there are people who can not be vaccinated due to other medical conditions. However if everyone else is vaccinated, then that results in herd immunity. This is why not being vaccinated isn't defensible as "muh personal freedoms and choice!" sort of thing, it's a health risk that threatens others.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

How can an unvaccinated person sicken a bunch of vaccinated people?

The same way people who get flu shots still get the flu.

The point of vaccines isn't that if you're vaccinated you're forever immune to the disease. That's true of most people, but not all. And there are people who can not be vaccinated due to other medical conditions. However if everyone else is vaccinated, then that results in herd immunity. This is why not being vaccinated isn't defensible as "muh personal freedoms and choice!" sort of thing, it's a health risk that threatens others.

It is just like how they still throw around personal freedom to defend secondhand smoke and then attack the science.

You are free to be an idiot, but you are not free to endanger other people with your idiocy.