Why do anti-vaccination views among parents seem to be increasing?

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What is with the increase of anti vaxx parents?

I’m pretty sure it’s just the algorithm but I am bombarded with so many news articles and posts about parents refusing vaccinations, even something as simple as vitamin K.

Why? I know there a wave of people who don’t believe in vaccinations but it seems to be getting worse

I hope this is not true but fear it is.
It is because people believe articles about dangers of vaccines.
Louis Pasteur would be spinning in his grave.
The eradication or limitation of some of the worst diseases in the world are down to vaccines.
There is always a risk with vaccines. But that risk is worse without having them.

Because people are exposed to the dangers of the actual disease anymore. It’s hard to be afraid of polio when you’ve never met anyone who has had it or the only person you know who had measles was fine.

Are they? I cannot say I had noticed. However, if it stops the "stupid gene" being passed on it's probably in the best interest of the human race.

Same happening with sunscreens

There is an increase in people not vaccinating children. I think it’s an increase in conspiracy theories, reports of covid vaccine side effects, crap on social media and being generations away from knowing people who have had the illnesses we know vaccinate against so people don’t realise or remember the lasting side effects of some illnesses.

Only selfish people rely on hetd immunity. I knew someone who refused to have her little darlings vaccinated because she knew everyone else would, so the risk was low. She was a selfish person, generally, it later transpired! I would have been far more anxious about my children having childhood diseases. I had them. My brother almost died of Whooping Cough.

Robert Kennedy, the US Health Secretary and avowed anti vaxxer, did a complete turnaround last week and urged parents to have their children vaccinated against measles. Cases in the US have hit a 35 year high.

I think it’s sometimes because of the attitude of medical professionals when you have an adverse reaction or side effect from a vaccine. It’s happened twice to us (me with a pregnancy vaccine and my DS with mmr) both times asked questions things like ‘have you been abroad recently’ or ‘is anyone in the household unwell’ when I volunteered info about very recent vaccination I got snapped at that it wouldn’t be that. Very badly dealt with and turned out both times it was reactions to vaccines.

Im stil pro vaccination, I just see it as unluckily we’ve had a side effect from some but still consider it worth it for the protection we got from the vaccine. I can see how people of spoken to the way we were might misinterpret that as a warning sign and think vaccines are not worth the risk when they are.

Because with SM people are given far too much information that they don't really have the intelligence or skills to analyse.

I'm a big family genealogist.

Recently discovered my Great-Grandads sister lost 2 DC to measles in 7 years. One aged 13 months in 1912 with measles leading to pneumonia and one in 1919 aged 23 months with measles and 'convulsions'.

I can't imagine the abject terror she must have felt when her children contracted measles, especially 7 years after one died. She had older DC too but I don't know if they contracted it? Was she nursing 2 other DC with it in 1919 thinking they might all die as her baby girl did in 1912? But 'just' one did?

No vaccine. No treatment. Nothing to do but tending your DC while they were ill and some died.

Roald Dahl the famous author lost a child to measles in the 1960s!.

Now you have all the SM stuff saying it's a common childhood illness so just get it out the way.

They didn't come up with vaccines for illnesses that didn't have potentially catastrophic results.

Because in the past most people consumed media through the same mainstream sources and now people get information through social media. This means views on all sorts of things have become much more fragmented, and extremist positions have been able to flourish, including anti-vax positions. It’s very sad.

Social media

Because some parents are stupid as shit and this is evolution in action. Of course there doesn't appear to be a need to vaccinate your kids because you never hear of kids getting those illnesses, which was obviously the result of mass vaccination.

This 💯

The coercion, bullying, bribing and virtue signalling (as well as the general utter insanity, and Partygate) in 2020 and 2021 didn’t help the general cause.

The covid vaccine. The whole covid pandemic has caused mistrust and I know a lot of people who had all of their vaccines that are now regretting it and questioning the whole thing. Once you get to that stage you question other vaccines as well even though they have been around for decades. Governments around the world have caused untold damage, I’ve been watching Dr Fauci give evidence in America and they are having a huge backlash against vaccines as a result.

I also think it's since the covid vaccine and everything that went on with that.

There are also many communities across the country that will refuse to have any vaccinations. The same communities which will have family / travel to countries where some diseases are still prevalent. They refuse the vaccines not just due to conspiracy theories but the supposed contents of the ingredients and lack of educations towards them. Might be worth the government trying to understand the complexities of this.

Socials.

Robert Kennedy has been anti vaccination for over 20 years - nothing to do with Covid. He has claimed that childhood vaccinations cause autism.

A man who admits he was a heroin addict for over a decade and publicly claims to have had a parasitic worm in his brain.

Who had literally no experience working in medicine or health yet employed in the most significant health role in the US government after agreeing with Trump to not stand against him in elections.

The man is at best, brain damaged and at worst, just a narcissist.

Could be both.

His own family turned on him when he 180'd to support Trump and the Kennedys are not a family that is adverse to buying their way into political power, corruption or cover-ups.

That tells you all you need to know.

He's also thick as shit, probably from the years of heroin or the brain worm effecting his thinking in a way that his intelligent Father, Uncle and Grandfathers were not.

Because people are stupid and thanks to the internet can connect with other stupid people and convince themselves they’re the smart ones.

What I notice among my peers who have become suspicious of vaccines is that the HCPs they speak to don't seem to be able to explain them well so they don't understand why they are being told to have them. The HCP says one thing like "it stops you getting flu" and then they google and find out that it doesn't.

As a practice nurse I see this increasingly. Lots of things people read on SM, people becoming ‘vaccine weary’ - every few months it seems there’s another vaccine or the extension of an existing programme, MMRV, shingles, RSV etc. And yes, also COVID. I had cardiac issues post COVID vaccination, tachycardia and hospitalisation less than 48 hours after mine, I subsequently needed an ablation and four years later still have palpitations daily. I absolutely wouldn’t have another. In fact, I’m due two vaccines for travel myself in the next few months and despite me vaccinating others for thirty years am extremely hesitant now. Irrational I know.