I was an antivaxer, nineteen years ago.

[Aristus]

29. Please don't ever say that again. At least not here.

Anyone who says "X is better protection against the flu than the flu vaccine" I'm gonna bust like a cheap pinata. It's fun to throw shade on the flu vaccine; that's why so many people do it. And that's because there is no one alive today who was alive during the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918-1919.

How soon we forget. Millions of people died because there wasn't a vaccine for it. If we had had the knowledge at the time, we could have made one that would have saved millions of lives. The way I know this is because millions of people contracted a weaker strain of the Flu early in the epidemic, and recovered. When the much stronger, deadlier strain emerged later in 1918, the people who had gotten the earlier strain survived due to their acquired immunity. if we had been able to synthesize that immunity, we could have saved millions of lives.

See my other post about the efficacy of partial immunity, and remember it. Smug declarations of "Well, you know, it's not 100% effective" don't fly with me, and with few other medical professionals. If you're going to spread misleading information, do it at an anti-vaxxer site, and not here, where you are going to be called out in the strongest of terms.