There is no such thing as herd immunity

1- Pro's source is from 1943-1956. I'm not sure if he's trying to demonstrate that this line of thinking is outdated (which it is, it's about 60 years old), or that this thinking is current. It's not. Right now the current guidelines are called MyPlate [1]. which consist of 30% grains, 20% protein, 40% vegetables and 10% fruits with a little circle on the side to represent a cup of dairy. This looks relatively balanced to me. What do you think, Pro? What's a balanced diet? 2- Alright. Let's start with genetic diseases: Angelman, cri du chat, Klinefelter's, hemophilia, sickle-cell? Autoimmune diseases: diabetes type one, lupus, MS? Viral infections: flu, ebola, HPV, HIV, colds? Bacterial infections:staph, clostridium difficle (eugh), plague, tetanus? Protozoan infections: malaria, African sleeping sickness, giardia? Helminth infections: tapeworms, roundworms, flukes? Environmentally acquired diseases: sun stroke, hypothermia, exposure?Additionally, if we are indeed bringing things over from our previous debate, Pro doesn't believe that medical sources are credible at all. All doctors, naturopath or medical, are quacks and therefore not to be trusted. This makes the data false by his use in the first place.However, in response to the CDC source is this: Again, it is not that vaccines don't work. Vaccines work by significantly reducing the time that a person is infected, or by preventing the disease entirely. This reduces the time one sheds viral particles as well. Unfortuantely viruses and bacteria are clever in the way they are transmitted, and vaccines are not the ultimate shield.3- I'll be honest. Statistics was my favorite subject in high school, so I'm glad it was brought up now. Brief statistics lesson: Confidence interval: Range of values that will probably contain the value of an unknown population parameter (in this case, how long a vaccine booster lasts)Confidence level: The probability that the value will be in the given rangeSo, when a medical provider is trying to generalize literally eveyone, the confidence level has to be pretty high. Like, 99.999% high, so the given confidence interval has to be pretty wide as well. Since all humans are completely different from one another, different genetics, different experience, different environment, that means their immune system would respond drastically differently. 2-10 years seems believable to me, though I'd hate to be the poor soul whose vaccine is completely effective for two years. I suspect the lower half of the bracket is used when building up an immunity, such as when getting the three rounds of Hepatits B. Though the absolute shortest interval I can find is only 4 years [2].4- Everything Pasteur said? I'm not on record agreeing with everything he said, as I haven't read everything he has said. But I am on record saying I agree with science that has been proven over and over again to be correct. I could run the same swan-neck experiment that disproved spontaneous generation right now if I wanted to. Please notify me when this is no longer correct.In reference to hormone, leaky gut syndrome and nutrition.. research done by scientists and doctors Pro doesn't believe in?5- Actually no, I'm referring to the several cases of mumps that showed up on my own campus several months ago. A college campus where most kids are frankly too poor to eat junk.I wish only eating junk food made you sick. I was in Disney World a few years ago and ate all kinds of ridiculous junk; my immune system didn't even bat an eyelash. But I can remember vividly the week that my sister was two years old and had a terrifying bout of rotovirus. Not eating junk food would not remedy the fact that she couldn't keep water down and was bottlefed water around the clock and couldn't stop crying because she had never had any junk food in the excess that Pro describes. I am so grateful that medicine has advanced to the point of there now being a vaccine. [1] choosemyplate.gov[2] http://www.immune.org.nz...