Any anti-vaxxers around?

[Hermano]

Just wondering if anyone who would normally consider themselves to be an anti vaxxer, who hasn't given their child eg MMR would mind sharing if they've changed their mind following covid? If they'd take a vaccine when one is available, give it to their children etc?

No reason other than idle curiosity, vaccines are in the news a lot at the moment. I'm not a journalist, just a furloughed and slightly bored parent interested in hearing world views which are different from my own.

If you're interested I'm a scientist who is happy with the evidence base for vaccines and use them myself and for my children

I stopped vaccinating my children after a severe reaction to the BCG in my first child.

The Covid vaccines - ie AZ etc have confirmed my concerns about vaccines. I think eventually there will be a wider realisation of the harm they can do. This awakening is occurring now. More and more people are seeing that vaccines are not the perfect panacea that they've been sold to us as.

CimCardashian

I wonder how anti vaxxers would feel if they lived in an undeveloped country where thousands of kids die of these awful prevented diseases at a very young age?

Children in “undeveloped” countries are dying due to malnourishment, lack of sanitation and lack of health care. This is why they die from what, in developed countries, used to be referred to as “mild childhood diseases”, and which have now become feared as though they kill every child infected. Measles parties? Chicken pox parties? These used to be the norm in the US and U.K.

Me and my family will never have the jab after my gran had 2 heartattacks in a matter of weeks from have the Pfizer

The rates of autism are up because it was never recognised as a condition years ago. There are a lot more labels these days. There was a whole programme on tv recently on the MMR fallacy and the lack of evidence behind the theory. Plus videos advising people to give their children bleach to cure them. The man behind it is unhinged.

If I was Autistic I would have the fucking RAGE at idiots who believe it is caused by a vaccine. Perhaps they believe ADHD, Tourettes, colour-blindness, baldness or just plain tall people are caused by a vaccine as well?

Idiots. Fucking, fucking HOPELESSLY idiotic.

My kids have had most vaccines. I’m a cautious vaxxer. I avoid, for example, the annual flu vaccine and the HPV vaccine. They have had the rest.

I’m watching the data carefully on the covid vaccine and only when I am abundantly sure - and me personally, rather than a scientist that I’m afraid I no longer trust- on the data.

It is clear to me we should not be vaccinating our young people with Pfizer, yet, if ever.

I find the “anti-vaxx” label amusing. The derogatory undertones to ridicule whereas through bitter experience I have learnt never to rely on bloody “experts”.

Haffiana

If I was Autistic I would have the fucking RAGE at idiots who believe it is caused by a vaccine. Perhaps they believe ADHD, Tourettes, colour-blindness, baldness or just plain tall people are caused by a vaccine as well?

Idiots. Fucking, fucking HOPELESSLY idiotic.

But many health issues ARE caused by vaccines. Blindness, meningitis, narcolepsy to name but three. It doesn’t mean that vaccines are the ONLY cause of these things, but there is medical evidence that they are A cause. I don’t think anyone believes “autism” is only caused by vaccines. Autism is an umbrella term which covers a whole spectrum of disorders from mild to severe and some completely different from others. If anything, I’d say that vaccines can cause brain damage, and children with vaccine induced brain damage have symptoms that look like one of the many types of autism, and get labelled autistic due to their medical needs.