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Not to mention the lethal dose of it is astronomical compared to how much is actually in vaccines. The lethal dose is 50 mg/kg or about 3.5 grams per 150 pound human. Vaccines contain at it's highest amount 25 mcg. So that's about .00001 % of a lethal dose in a 150 pound human. It's the dose that makes the poison.
Again, if I can easily avoid it why should I take it at all?
More to the point, if you or Dr. Caleb can avoid it then what are you proving by needlessly exposing yourselves to it?
It's used because it's effective and harmless. I get vaccinated because the diseases they prevent are worse, and the complications are real, not imagined. And most vaccines do not contain thimerosal.
My overall point however is, if you want to avoid thimerosal, by all means. But do it from a point of being informed of the facts, not based on superstition.