I totally feel you, "I'm not going to get my kids vaccinated because I'm a parent and know best" is one of the worst things I've seen in years. What's even more WTF is I've seen these same kind of people make sure their pets are up to date with their jabs, because we don't want Fluffy to die from parvo or lepto - it's almost like the same thing should apply to humans!
It is unfortunately going to take an outbreak of something that kills a lot of kids to undo the damage that 'don't vaccinate, because the chemicals mean they'll probably get the autism' (and yeah, that would just be the worst, they might die instead but they won't be autistic!!). The thing with the recent measles outbreak is really worrying in particular, because there's so many people on facebook and what have you saying that it's 'not killer', except it really, really can be and the only reason it's NOT been killing people is because it (until recently) has been very hard to pass into the general population...
I really hope the US gets stricter about kids needing vaccinations to attend schools unless the child physically can't get the vaccination (allergies and such), people will probably whine about 'muh freedoms' but the trend of putting people at unnecessary risk of disease really needs taking control of one way or another. :/
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It is unfortunately going to take an outbreak of something that kills a lot of kids to undo the damage that 'don't vaccinate, because the chemicals mean they'll probably get the autism' (and yeah, that would just be the worst, they might die instead but they won't be autistic!!). The thing with the recent measles outbreak is really worrying in particular, because there's so many people on facebook and what have you saying that it's 'not killer', except it really, really can be and the only reason it's NOT been killing people is because it (until recently) has been very hard to pass into the general population...
I really hope the US gets stricter about kids needing vaccinations to attend schools unless the child physically can't get the vaccination (allergies and such), people will probably whine about 'muh freedoms' but the trend of putting people at unnecessary risk of disease really needs taking control of one way or another. :/