One question. If you believe vaccines are effective and confer immunity, why would you need to fear the unvaccinated? Theoretically, according to your beliefs, the unvaccinated should only be able to infect each other.
They are not merely my “beliefs”. It’s called herd immunity and it’s well documented.
“No vaccine offers complete protection, but the spread of disease from person to person is much higher in those who remain unvaccinated.[4] It is the general aim of those involved in public health to establish herd immunity in most populations. Complications arise when widespread vaccination is not possible or when vaccines are rejected by a part of the population. As of 2009, herd immunity is compromised in some areas for some vaccine-preventable diseases, including pertussis* and measles** and mumps***, in part because of parental refusal of vaccination.”
In other words; there are always going to be, even among the vaccinated population, a small number of people for whom the vaccination failed, a number of people who were recently vaccinated but for whom the vaccination has not yet reached its full efficacy, some people who haven’t received booster shots of certain vaccines that require boosters and didn’t get them, those who have highly compromised immune systems – think cancer patients and then infants who haven’t yet been vaccinated and are between receiving, if they were breast fed, anti-bodies via the mother’s colostrum; only if the mother has antibodies or who were vaccinated, and receiving vaccinations or the recommended booster shots, thusly reaching full efficacy.
So in other words, the more people properly vaccinated, the lesser the chance that diseases for which there are vaccinations, can spread among the population in general and especially among vunerable populations.
So yes, if you choose not to vaccinate, do everyone a favor and stay away, far, far away from those of us and our families who don’t want to perchance catch what you have.
* Be aware of pertussis complications
** A casualty of the immunization wars: The reemergence of measles
*** Mumps outbreak
That's an excellent point. But they act like some cult, where everyone has to take the drink of purple stuff.