To ask why anti-Vacciners would prefer polio over autism

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I'm not here to cause a fight but I'm genuinely interested in why people who are against vaccines use the autism card? Like medically it's proven that it doesn't but even so why would you prefer that your child had an eradicated illness rather than autism?

Because you can't argue with stupid.

There's nothing logical about it.

autism card!! is that a new card?

Because they don’t see polio.

Thanks to vaccines

Once unvaccinated kids start dying and being permanently disabled by the illnesses they’re not vaccinated against, they’ll realise their stupid mistake.

Tragically some other children who can’t be vaccinated for medical reasons will likely suffer too

Ignorance

Because they have never experienced serious, life-threatening illness and anyway they're unlikely to do so because the rest of us are protecting them from the consequences of their stupidit, until there's too many of them and herd immunity no longer works, in which case all hell will break loose.

This is debated every single week.
Look at the old threads, the answers for and against are all there.

Because weirdly they believe that vaccines damage everyone and that illness touches no one. It's a very strange logic.

I’m not an anti vaxxer at all but tbh I think it’s fairly obvious they don’t think they/ their children will ever get polio

They can see how awful autism can be for some families, they can’t see polio.

I don’t think it’s that hard to understand.

Anyone who believes their is any sort of link with autism can’t be reasoned with sadly. You can’t argue with stupid!

by the way my DC are all vaccinated although we hadthe mmr jab done separately, they're still immunised. I just think there's no point starting a new thread every single week.

Because children a very unlikely to contract polio in Britain. When I was growing up polio wasn’t even on the national vaccination program. I only had it when I traveled to a country with high rates of polio. Ditto TB.

They obviously don’t think they will get ill and if they do, their child will recover with absolutely no problems as their “immune system is working how it should”

You can’t recover from autism

(Not an anti-vaxxer. Both of my kids are vaccinated)

There are still cases of polio around it's just they're very very very rare and normally a similar stand if the illness that's mutated which is worrying due to maybe not being protected from a mutated strand of things that we've been vaccinated against

@Soubriquet no you cannot recover from autism but very early intervention and help for the child can make a world of difference my sister is autistic and id very much prefer her this way than in a hospital because she's managed to catch meningitis from not being vaccinated. Autism= still alive (not arguing just debating)

*Because they don’t see polio.

Thanks to vaccines*

This with bells on. Ignorant to illnesses that have only been just about eradicated thanks to the vaccines they refuse. It’s basic first world privilege to reject them.

I’ve vaccinated my children but if there was a very real risk of a vaccine causing autism then it would be a difficult decision to make.

Raising an autistic child is hard, I’m really worried about looking after an autistic adult as he grows.

Obviously I do not want my child to die, I can’t imagine any parent would but if I’m weighing up the risks between a basically eradicated disease and probable lifelong disability then I’m not sure I’d want to subject my child to that. Sometimes it’s hrs to not be selfish

Luckily there isn't a link Bertram.

And I speak as a mother of three children that are 'subjected to that'

1. It’s not a logical position. Anyone who actually does research based on credible sources understands the benefit of vaccines. The anti-vax movement relies on misinformation and pseudo-science which appeals to people’s emotions, rather than their reason or logic.

1. Many of the diseases we vaccinate against are widely eradicated in this country. I have been to Sri Lanka and South Africa and seen the devastating consequences of these diseases, but many people don’t have first hand experience of what they are like. They believe measles is like chicken pox, because they don’t see children dying from it. They don’t see twisted and deformed limbs from polio. Vaccines have been so successful, they’ve managed to convince anti-vaxxers that there’s no need for vaccines. It’s a horrifying paradox.

There has not been a case of Polio in the UK since 1982; there were 22 cases worldwide in 2017.

There are 100,000 children in the UK with Autism.

By the way I don't think anyone thinks that Autism is caused by the Polio vaccine. Some people think it can be triggered by the MMR.

Anti-vaxxers are just easily led and not very bright.

you can’t recover from autism

That's because it's not an illness.