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The Tragic Thing About Vaccines
The Tragic Thing About Vaccines… is that they work.
No, seriously. I know it’s a bit in-vogue throughout the deeper internet sphere to spin theories about the dark side of vaccine use, but this theorizing only ever serves to create barriers for the communities that need vaccinations the most: the poor, under-represented, and often neglected populations in communities across the world.
The only dark side to vaccines lies within the profit motive that can lead to them being expensive or proprietary, when they should be produced as services for the common good.
How do you get sick?
When bacteria or viruses enter the body, they begin to multiply. The more they multiply and spread throughout your body, the more serious the consequences to your health. There are tons of ways for these little invaders to get into your body, but when they do their only goal is to fulfill their most simple biological imperative: spread and survive.
Your immune system, meanwhile, has a different goal: ensure that you survive and thrive.
