Vaccination is a process with COLLECTIVE benefits.

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1) Absolutely not.
2) Absolutely not.

For 1, my OP was different in many ways from the Snopes article. I guess you haven't read my OP. For example, I calculated the actual risk factor with respect to the two choices. I didn't just add up the total number of deaths. I also explained why this information supports a case for mandatory vaccination. Etc.

For #2, obviously, there are caveats with any data source. With VAERS, there are at least two major ones. One is that the data is correlative, it's not causative. This should be obvious to anyone, since VAERS is not a randomized clinical trial, which is the only way to truly measure causality. For people dumb enough to not realize that, I apologize. The second is that the data is collected voluntarily by submission, not systematically. This means the data set will contain both false positives and false negatives. Again, I apologize to people too dumb to understand this.

Now my turn.
1) What do you think the risk of dying from measles is for someone who refuses MMR?
2) Are you convinced that the risk of dying from MMR is lower, and if so, what scientific evidence is there that the risk of dying from MMR is lower than that?

Please, show your work.