I believe that vaccines are one of the great wonders of the modern age and I believe that people who think otherwise have no conception of what it used to be like to have to worry about your child getting smallpox, polio or measles - let alone getting one of those diseases.
People get the diseases FROM the vaccines and can cause others to contract the disease if they shed the virus.
By getting a vaccine it’s possible to infect yourself and others.
So you can potentially have vaccine takers be the source of an outbreak, and you bitch that it’s the fault of those that are unvaccinated.
Lovely logic.
And many of the vaccines people get are for diseases that are not lethal, just unpleasant, but that the body would still fight off and develop a far better, permanent immunity to, rather than a vaccine whcih may or may not give immunity or only partial immunity, and requires boosters periodically.
Even better. Big pharma repeat customers.
Amen and amen.
Some of us are old enough to remember polio and the lives it took or ruined.
Some of us remember the first-hand experience of chickenpox and measles and whooping cough and tetanus.
Some of us wear the smallpox scar with honor, knowing that our little part in the vaccination of millions led to one of the greatest medical successes in history.
Shame on the others of us who live in a me-first bubble and don’t appreciate their blessings.
Your kids and grandkids don’t get sick because my kids and grandkids took preventive steps in your favor.