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In reply to the discussion: Public DU Service announcement to older DUers - get your damn Shingles vaccinations!!! [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Thanks for sharing that.
What is amazing about the shingles vaccine is how someone like myself who has been trained through years of tech writing, to look into the logic of the stats can untangle the propaganda and see the actual meanings of the statistics.
Here is one statistic:
100% of all people who have had the chicken pox, even as kids, still have that virus in their system.
I imagine that could be true, so I will accept it.
Then if you do any indie research on the matter, you find out that rather than the scarey scenario that the TV ads portray, only one third of those people will ever get shingles.
Most TV viewers are left with the thought of how 100% of chicken pox victims still have the chicken pox viral material in their bodies. 100% That figure sticks in their minds.
And the TV ads for the vaccine marvelously fail to mention an important fact, that of those 100%, only one third, or 33% will ever go on to experience shingles.
So two thirds of us chicken pox victims will not get shingles.
Then you find out the efficacy rate of the vaccine is 63 to 66%, and that means that the vaccine itself doesn't even affect in any way at all! the rate of the shingles experience! So the whole ploy of getting everyone to get that vaccine is nothing but propaganda! and it is all for profit.