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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
Food allergies are irrelevant. It still doesn't change the fact that 24 people have had these reactions to the vaccine.
Bringing in a comparison to food allergies, is like saying more people die from car accidents than H1N1
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It's not irrelevant in terms of putting things into perspective, not to mention the anaphylactic reaction is exactly the same whether it be caused by food, tylenol, perfume, H1N1 vaccine or whatever. No one ever said allergies weren't a potential side effect, in fact its clearly stated, and its the reason why you are supposed to wait around 15 minutes following your injection so that we can manage it.
People always freak out whenever they hear "side effects", without actually considering the very low probabilties, cost-benefit ratio and appropriate perspective.
You're actually right in bringing up car accidents, in that people use those everyday despite the high risk of potential side effects, and yet this is never cause to not use the car in the first place. Why is there a 60+ pages in this forum mentally masturbating over the extremely low risk of vaccination side effects (the overwhelming majority of which are minor), and not to vehicular side effects considering the huge statistical discrepancy in terms of risk and prevelance? Because many people lack the perspective.