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Vaccines contaminate the human body with toxins, heavy metals and viruses, or alter DNA
There are usually two types of vaccination fears, which tend to be much greater than the actual risks involved. Both types of fear have been shown to influence vaccine hesitancy.
1) Fears related to suffering side effects (whether plausible or not). For example:
These fears can stem from or be magnified if individuals perceive vaccines to have toxic ingredients. Some commonly mentioned ones are:
2) Fear of the vaccination procedure itself, such as fear of needles.
This theme includes the fear that one’s body will be tainted with toxic components that vaccines are alleged to have. Some common components that people fear are:
It is normal to have questions and doubts about medical treatments. People should be able to ask questions about what are the components, and they might affect one’s body. In the past, some medical treatments were not properly tested, so people may reasonably worry. It is understandable to want reassurance that vaccine components are safe and that there are now high standards for testing protocols.
Dialogue between patients and healthcare professionals is most productive if it is guided by empathy, and an opportunity for the patient to affirm the reasons underlying their attitudes and to express understanding for that. That’s why it is important to understand the attitude roots behind people’s overt opinions. To affirm a person’s underlying attitude root does not mean we need to agree with the specifics of their argument. For example, we can acknowledge that:
It is normal to have questions and doubts about medical treatments. People should be able to ask questions about what are the components, and they might affect one’s body. In the past, some medical treatments were not properly tested, so people may reasonably worry. It is understandable to want reassurance that vaccine components are safe and that there are now high standards for testing protocols.
The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) only approve vaccines that have gone through rigorous safety testing measures, including testing for all contents of the vaccine.
Vaccines only contain trace amounts of any chemical that are needed to safely deliver the vaccine so that it can train the body’s immune response. We often encounter such chemicals in similarly small quantities every day. It isn’t the presence of the chemical, but how much there is that determines if it is harmful.
For example, we use safe doses of fluoride in toothpaste, and chlorine in swimming pools. Even foods like bananas contain potassium. None of these are harmful unless we ingest them in large quantities.
Vaccines that use mRNA only deliver instructions to our cells to train them to safely develop protection against disease. The mRNA from a vaccine never enters the nucleus of the cell, which is where our DNA are kept. This means the mRNA cannot affect or interact with our DNA in any way.
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