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Measles erupts in Florida school where 11% of kids are unvaccinated
(arstechnica.com)
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Yeah, but it's a hundred kids suffering, not the idiot parents.
And with some small but non-zero chance dying several years later from SSPE.
Depending in your view, thats not a really low chance. Since we're talking of a chance to die - I'd say it's high.
Oops - kids at school are older, but these numbers are way higher... Let's just run both and see what happens. I don't have enough data, to do some "real math" but someone mentioned about 100 students being at risk of getting infected as they're unvaccinated. Lets just assume all of them get infected.
First: 2 in 10000 will develop SSPE, that means 9998 in 10000 won't. For 100 students:
(9998/10000)^100 = 0.98so, a 98% chance, that no-one is affected and tha lt means a 2% chance, that at least one is affected by SSPE.Second number: 1 in 609 means, that 608 in 609 won't. For 100 students:
(608/609)^100 = 0.85so that's an 85% chance that nothing happens and a whopping 15% chance that at least one student develops SSPE.I know this math I likely not near reality, but damn.
9998/10000 is the chance to not get SSPE for a single person.
For two persons to not get it (assuming both are infected): 9998/10000 * 9998/1000
For three persons: 9998/10000 * 9998/10000 * 9998/10000
And so on. That means, that the chance for n persons to not get it (no one of them) is (9998/10000)^n
That's where the power comes into play.
The other conversion (times 100) is just how percentages work: per cent = per one hundred. So 0.98 = 98/100 = 98%
At the very least when (if) those kids grow up they should realise what fucking morons their parents are for gambling with their lives and the anti Vax notions don't get passed down
Nope, they will have survivor bias. "I didn't need the vaccine and I made it" type of argument.
Maybe, though some of their friends might die, or they might remember the times they were really sick for no reason
Not to mention immunocompromised people who can't get vaccinated
Or immigrants from parts of the world where vaccines aren't given out enough or just very unlucky people who were fully vaxxed but it didn't take.