—> But any family going vaccine-free is counting on the herd immunity of of the vaccinated to prevent illness in their own children whether they know it or not.
It was the improvement n sanitation the checked the spread of most things we vaxx against. Not vaccines.
There's a failure to distinguish between long-standing, well-established vaccines with a track record, and novel shots without proper testing being pushed on the population.
Distinctions are necessary here. I remember when the polio vaccine came in, and everyone breathed a huge sigh of relief. Kid in my grade school carpool must have been one of the last to get it. Heavy iron braces, lungs compromised to an extent. Died young.
We don't want that back.
Typhoid and polio spread by fecal contamination. Sanitation helps enormously. We don’t even vaccinate for typhoid in the US.
Measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough, diphtheria spread airborne or by droplet. Hygiene doesn’t help you there. Herd immunity does.
I did refuse the hepatitis vaccines for my babies. Hepatitis A fecal-oral spread, Hepatitis B blood or sexually transmitted. They weren’t at risk, weren’t in daycare, weren’t abused, we have safe water. Probably could have refused polio as well.