re: #224 Dopamine Fish

The myth that vaccinations are supposed to work for life is largely based on the fact that most of what we’re being vaccinated against are diseases that primarily affect children. By the time we’re adults, we don’t need the extremely high immune response of a fresh vaccination, because the disease has a low probability of affecting us by that point. This is more akin to the seasonal flu, which we DO have a vaccine for, every single year (mostly due to its rapid mutation rate). And there are periodic vaccinations that are supposed to be administered for other things, such as tetanus, on a less frequent basis.

Plus what’s been learned since is contracting the disease or getting the vaccines wanes over the years, and measles seems to have the ability to wipe out all immunity to any diseases.

I am never going to forget going through my second case of mumps in 2012, or my second case of scarlet fever in 2008.