bhutocracy

A baby died in my area a year or two ago from whooping cough because of the high percentage of brainless hippies here not vaccinating their kids. Things like whooping cough take hold here because so many clueless dolts don't vaccinate, this woman dropped her other child off at school and the baby obviously got coughed on at the school gates and died a horrible choking death. The parents took on the local anti vax loons which eventually lead to them having to change their name from the impartial sounding to anti vax so people wouldn't think they were getting impartial advice.

I've just had a daughter and we basically kept her inside or in a covered pram for the first 3 months because of this. Now she's had her vaccinations we can finally take her out without worrying about all the inconsiderate fucks (and that includes people with the flu not covering their mouths when they sneeze).

I didn't let her get the Hep B shot when she was born though. There wasn't a lot of pressure and even though I'm very pro vaccination, I ran the numbers and came up with something like a 1:10,000 chance or her getting it just based on the general population and even less because we're proactive.
I guess that's the thing, vaccinations are of immense benefit. They are probably a top 3 human invention. But they do have rare side effects and people are stupid, ignorant pattern seeking idiots who can't see that whatever the small risks, the things it protects you against have far far higher risks.

Somehow they can look at their little angel and think measles with it's 1 in 300 death rate, it's 30% complications rate, it's 20% hospitalization rate, 8% diarrhea rate, 6% pneumonia rate (and death from that), 7% ear infection rate and of course blindness, encephalitis (1 in 1000) deafness and retardation (all in the US, not third world rates) and not think "side effects" but look at the vaccine and go "oh noz" when it has jack all side effects except a mild fever in 5-15% of cases.
I think it's because as a parent you make the decision to introduce the vaccination whereas the virus in the wild isn't guaranteed and is fate or god's plan or something so you don't stress about the side effects of the decision to not do something.

I'm particularly worried in 30 years when we no longer have so many blind, deaf or infertile people from pre-vaccination times that we really lose that societal memory of what it was like. At least now there are still plenty of people that can pipe up and say"I'm deaf because of measles when I was a kid" vaccination has made that so rare now that a generation of people don't understand the risks of the diseases and like the retard in chief here think "measles is perfectly safe".

luckily the antivax morons only make up 1-2%, and whilst they're killing and maiming innocent people, mostly babies, they're not actually growing.