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No I don’t need to balance anything based on your criteria. I and I alone decide what goes into my body. Anyone who is scared to walk outside and face hundreds of thousands of pathogens on a daily basis should remain at home. If you want a vaccine, go ahead and get one.

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Thankfully your attitude wasn't prevalent in previous generations or polio and smallpox would still be rampant.

Three things a) we have VAPP now b) polio is not eradicated, check the Global Polio Eradication Initiative website on those. c) in a case where diagnosis was actually improved in the early years of the polio vaccine they discovered they had been dealing with two things with the same symptoms a all along: paralytic polio and Guillean-Barre syndrome. Determining the respective rates of both is an exercise left to the reader.

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