Very good article in Wired about the controversy surrounding vaccinations. Considering all the death threats apparently directed at pro-vaccination people and all the money you can make sucking up to the crazies I give them a lot of credit for printing this.
Is this an issue in Germany and Switzerland and such? It seems like it is an upper-middle-class white pandemic and that it would thus proliferate there as well.
Edit: If you want to cry, scroll down to the comments. Otherwise, I recommend not.
Controversy here? Hrm, not so much, but then again Berlin is a pretty laid back city when it’s all said and done. There was an article written up a few weeks ago that the Chancellor and some of her officials would be immunized. Der Spiegel, one of the most trusted new sources, had a big issue about the impending danger of the Flu and the vaccination last week. While I didn’t get read the issue, the vaccination was supposedly not endorsed as well as warned against. It’s also worth noting that the US version of the vaccination is different from the European version. From what I’ve read and heard (again, no sources), the European vaccination is not as concentrated as the US one.
Alright, enough speculation and hearsay on my end of things.