The science is settled. Vaccines are good. They ought to be mandated by government. This is a question of personal freedom ... the right to be free of disease.
California has disallowed medical exemptions in all but a few cases, which I disagree with.
I’ve been vaccinated as a child, but will likely need some vaccines again because I’m immune suppressed, and some of the people around me don’t agree with vaccination (general public). If I catch the measles, it’s far more serious for me than if an otherwise healthy child catches it. God forbid Ebola winds up spreading.. Then I’m screwed.
“Vaccination is a practice that has many detractors who have presented, over the years, evidence that vaccines can and do cause great harm.”
The main detractor being Andrew Wakefield, the former British physician who published a fraudulent study in the Lancet that sparked anti-vax hysteria with claims that vaccination was responsible for autism.
The ‘study’ has been discredited, Wakefield’s license revoked, and his two co-authors have renounced the study as well.
But one should never underestimate the love of conspiracy nonsense so Wakefield’s fake claims live on.