Good points.
I am not opposed to vaccinations. I am opposed to giving them to infants vs. 4 year old Pre-Ks or 5 year old Kindergarteners. At these ages I believe the children are developed enough to handle the vaccines without the adverse effects seen in infants.
I’m not going to waste my time going into the Autism - vaccination link. There is much on the web for you to read for yourself including a recent study just pulled by it’s publisher btw, which directly links infant immunizations with autism.
1-in-68 brain damaged kids is not something a humane person would turn their back on or casually dismiss. What is it in our country that 3rd world, non-infant immunizing countries don’t have or do to their infants which accounts for the US’s 1500 per 100,000 ASD cases?
No one knows why autism rates are up. Some of it is a change in the diagnostic criteria, but that doesn’t explain it all. BUT, the vaccine autism link has been studied and restudied and again, there is NO CREDIBLE EVIDENCE. Most of the stuff on the internet on the topic is crap.
What needs to be looked at is the ages of these kids when given vax, the health conditions of those babies when they are vaccinated (even a minor cold or infection could have causative repercussions) and the number of vaxes all dumped into little bodies at one appointment because it's cheaper, easier and more convenient for the pediatrician to do them all at once
Since the vax-autism deniers are still holding sway (kinda like the global warmists), it is hindering research into the connection of the body's reaction to multiple vaxs administered simultaneously or in short intervals, preservatives in those vax’s (another controversy, lab conditions and controls where those vaxs are made, and predispositions of some kids to being high risk because of their ethnicity, genetics, parental age, prenatal exposures or their sex
No one has explained why autism and ADD/ADHD (which are on the autism spectrum according to the long time pediatrician and neuropsychologist treating my kid) is skyrocketing, especially among boys.
and no, it's not because the doctors parents teachers and schools are trolling for behavior modification medication