Genuine question for anti-vaxxers

[Raisinmeup]

I see a lot online about anti-vaxxers and I’m trying to understand where they’re coming from, so this is a genuine question, not rage bait.

My understanding is that some parents choose not to vaccinate their children because they believe vaccines cause harmful side effects, or they just don’t trust the government and big pharma in general.

But what’s the alternative? If everyone stopped vaccinating, wouldn’t we start seeing diseases like polio coming back? That would mean more infant deaths and lifelong disabilities. It just doesn’t seem like a rational trade off?

From what I’ve seen, there seems to be a belief that immune systems can deal with these illnesses naturally, but I wonder if part of that belief comes from the fact that parents of today haven’t actually seen what a world without vaccines looks like. We’ve grown up in a time where infant death from preventable diseases is almost unheard of, so maybe it’s easy to forget how serious these infections really are.

And lastly, if you haven’t vaccinated your child and they then catch one of these illnesses, do you not end up turning to the same big pharma for the medicine or treatment anyway?

That’s incredibly sad but based on many comments I’ve seen on this thread, that still wouldn’t change the minds of people that are choosing not to vaccinate. I had someone respond to me incredulously that part of my decision to vaccinate might include other people’s wellbeing - they thought I must be lying. I don’t even think of myself as that altruistic, I’d say it’s pretty basic! It’s quite shocking where we’ve got to in seemingly so short a time.

I wonder if Antivaxors consider the side effects of all the Ultra High Processed Food that I assume they fill their kids with.

All that's great until it's your child dying because you refused a vaccine because your "research" means you thought there was less risk from the disease than the vaccine.

What additional evidence do you want about safer vaccines and transparency? The MMR in particular as that's the one I'm talking about here?

When it came on the news the other day, I was in the car with my 14 year old. I showed him the picture of Diana meeting with the patients in hospital, and how honestly ground-breaking it was at the time. It's really, really hard to get young minds round the fact that there was a very real fear.

It is not my child’s responsibility to risk their own health for anyone else, that’s the bottom line.

And again the child died WITH measles not OF measles therefore herd immunity was irrelevant in that case as the measles did not kill the child.

This is a sad story, but does nothing to increase trust in the medical profession which is what people need if they are going to vaccinate.

Firstly, the child died because of their leukaemia and the treatment for it. If anyone is to blame for him getting measles then it’s the hospital who have forgotten how to do infection control.

It is obvious that there will be contagious people in hospital, so you’d think the medical professionals would have enough sense to keep an immunocompromised child away from one with measles. Why didn’t they?

How do you know the child with measles wasn’t vaccinated anyway?

Huh? How do you know they’re feeding them HPF?

The only anti vaxxers I know, don’t tend to worry about what they consume. I doubt they’re drug free, let alone looking after their micro biome.

Kids on cheese strings and corn flakes 😂

Well that’s a load of shit. Anti vaxxers (and I know loads) are almost obsessive about food and nutrition. They feel that that makes them able to not vaccinate because they keep their kids so healthy by natural means. Also usually no meds so well into homeopathy.