tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3609683919099708226.post1122426665748279865..comments2023-06-16T09:39:07.504-04:00Comments on Harpocrates Speaks: VacTruth Alleges Bullying in One-Sided Account of Nurse-Patient EncounterTodd W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16192694127268195554noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3609683919099708226.post-8150018393497763742015-09-09T12:20:00.301-04:002015-09-09T12:20:00.301-04:00Thank you, Todd, for a most reasoned and measured ...Thank you, Todd, for a most reasoned and measured response to a very emotionally charged subject. In that most folks have neither the patience nor interest in reading a rather long dissertation to its end, you subject yourself as well to the unreasonable criticism that comes from a lack of comprehension of the totality of what you present. <br /><br />That is most unfortunate, for as we all know, there ARE real and present dangers in vaccination. No medical procedure is without some risk. And the greater the volume of vaccinations, the larger the number of abberations will be. Statistical fact of life, unfortunately.<br /><br />But as one who has been actively engaged in supporting global vaccination against the wild polio virus for nearly 30 years, we can state with some certainty that that common good far outweighs the few thousands of cases of polio derived from vaccination ( and far more imortantly, the vastly reduced proportion of paralytic cases than has traditionally been recorded in polio outbreaks). When one considers the BILLIONS of doses of polio vaccine that have been delivered to BILLIONS of children that has prevented well over TEN MILLION cases of polio against those few thousand cases of vaccine-caused polio, the greater good must be recognized. And the anecdotal cases of nurses isolating an unvaccinated child from other children, or of tragic individual cases of harm and even loss of life, albeit regrettable and fully worthy of universal sympathy, do not detract from the millions or even billions of lives that have been protected.<br /><br />In the case of polio, since the befinning of the Rotary Polio Plus campaign in 1985, we have <br />seen the wild virus eliminated from 130 countries - and there have been no cases this year in Afghanistan and only a few dozen cases in the war-torn region of NorthWest Pakistan in 2015. Vaccination works. This volunteer-driven project, supported by United Nations, national and regional health agencies, and by the USAID and CDC and more recently by the <br />Gates Foundation as worked collaboratively to almost completely wipe a dreaded crippling disease from the face of the earth....by vaccinating on a scale never before ever attempted!rob ketronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10739867836910373727noreply@blogger.com