If you don't care about anybody but yourself, you won't catch it (or if you do, it will be a mild case). Good for you. If you care about others (people with immune disorders, children too young to vaccinate, children whose parents don't believe in vaccines) then if herd immunity breaks down you are going to see a lot of people suffering in an epidemic.
If that doesn't concern you, no problem. But I'm old enough to remember polio epidemics before the vaccines . . . the closing of the swimming pools, the kids in braces, and so forth. I didn't get polio - but a kid in my carpool did. So did a very good friend who spent his life in braces.
I read your whole post fully the first time. On second reading it still raises the same questions which you did not address.
How is it that a vaccine that makes you immune from a virus requires the action of any one else for it to be effective?
Herd immunity??? Seriously??? That is the pro-vaccine crowd(or vaccine apologist) version of switching from Global Warming to Climate Change. In the history of vaccines, herd immunity has only reared its head when vaccines failed to protect a multitude of individuals the way medical science claimed it would). Can you show a single scientific article that references “herd immunity” that was published before this millennium? The isolation of small pox was something totally different since it was an approached that targeted areas in which small pox was actually active.
Since the pro-vaccine crowd is pumping newborns full of vaccines, how young are these children that are too young for vaccines. Also, are you familiar with the immunity boost that breast feeding babies get from their mothers?
Parents that don’t believe in vaccines take the risk of these diseases upon themselves and their children. As I have done for myself and for my children.
I am not unsympathetic to your view. It is clear that you have witnessed people damaged by diseases for which there are vaccines, but there are plenty of us who have loved ones that have been damaged by the vaccines themselves. Be grateful if you have not witnessed this, but is as real as the waste of the diseases that you saw.
I have adhered to a diet that has radically improved my health without antibiotics or vaccines since my career exposes me to most of the ailments that so many in the public are spreading about. Should I be able to impose that diet on others? Are you as selfish as you are trying to paint those who choose to not to inject themselves with whatever is in vaccines by not adhering to this same diet? It really is a simple diet, don’t eat starch, disaccharides, or precessed foods.