Wait, how does not getting vaccinated harm those who are vaccinated? Just curious.
“Wait, how does not getting vaccinated harm those who are vaccinated? Just curious.”
Oh please! I think you can figure it out!
No one anywhere claims that vaccines are 100% effective.
Part of the equation includes herd immunity - enough people vaccinating so that when vaccines don’t work, there are still so few people who could get sick that the disease won’t catch hold in the community.
People who refuse to vaccinate are now in high enough numbers that those who can’t - cancer patients, premature babies, those few allergic to the vaccine - are getting sick.
MMR refusers are the worst, because measles can’t be vaccinated against until around 12 months. Babies who get measles sometimes die.
When the Disney measles outbreak happened months back, I was in the middle of weekly treatment. One of the people who caught measles brought it back to Colorado and exposed 300+ people in the hospital where I am treated.
I would rather not orphan my kids because others are carrying diseases they did not have to have.
Well, you can still get the irritation but you are less likely to die because your body has a prepared immune response. Because I am vaccinated, I wouldn’t mind hanging out with people vaccinated or not. Having chickenpox and after having both the measles vaccine followed by the measles sickness, I pretty much take it as a reason why I shouldn’t fear those unvaccinated from those specific diseases.