Why do people get vaccines? Don't they research the ingredients?

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faerwin wrote:

vegetation isn't a negative footprint. It's just a basin of carbon.

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faerwin wrote:

That carbon is released as soon as the vegetation is burnt/eaten (which is quite frequent).

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

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faerwin wrote:

vegetation isn't a negative footprint. It's just a basin of carbon.

Don't move the goalposts. Yes, I understand that conservation of mass applies and thus the total carbon in the system doesn't go down because plants... but also it doesn't go up because burn oil. Saying plants don't have a negative footprint is like saying burning fossil fuels doesn't have a positive footprint. Therefore the appropriate standard for "carbon footprint" is net carbon atoms added/removed from (C)O2 molecules — in other words, at atmospheric standard. Under that standard burning oil is positive footprint and plants breathing is negative footprint.

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faerwin wrote:

That carbon is released as soon as the vegetation is burnt/eaten (which is quite frequent).

Not fully, but yes, close enough. Burning fossil fuels essentially is burning the sequestered remains of plants long since deceased. But the fact that we can do that shows that plants are actually very good at sequestering carbon naturally — we didn't put all that oil under the ground, nature did!

All O2-inhalers are positive footprint, and plants form the bottom of the food chain. I would say that those organisms are positive footprint, rather than blaming the victim for being preyed upon. ("Hey, that plant looked so ripe and delicious, it was asking for it.")

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kolyaboo wrote:

Nice hijack. How fossil fuels are in any way linked to vaccines I have no idea, nor do I want to even explore that. Strange people.

https://www.kwtx.com/content/news/Measle-case-confirmed-in-Central-Texas--505350581.html

Meanwhile, this is the 3rd place in US I have recently heard of with an outbreak that should never have happened.

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faerwin wrote:

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Xavderion wrote:

I agree that antivaxxers should be punished in some way if their kids get sick. That's beyond a thought crime so I'm fine with that.

The problem here is that it doesn't prevent the behavior.

It's like saying that people going 120 mph on the high way shouldn't be punished until they cause a car crash/accident.

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anti vax perents won let me get a vaccine
Im 15 years old and i never really thought about my parents not vaccinating me but now i have been doing some research about them and i dont really think they are harmful and i want to get a vaccine. Any advice on what to do?

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