[exDemMom]

Fully agree; I bet you anything that if a genuine epidemic of polio (likely since it has hit Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) hit the US, these very idealists would be screaming about how the government didn’t do enough to protect their vaccine free spud.

I'm not so sure. Part of their vaccine-free lifestyle involves a serious disregard for the health and well-being of others. Polio does not make everyone seriously ill--only about 1 in 200. Unless their kid is that one in 200 who actually becomes disabled from polio, they won't care. We've already seen this where whooping cough outbreaks have occurred in strongly anti-vax areas--these people don't even care about protecting their own children, much less other people's children.

[AnAmericanMother]

I was one of the victims of the "adult whooping cough epidemic."

It was not due to anti-vaccine locally, but to a wrinkle in the protocol for adults. I always get my tetanus on time because I work with dogs and horses. Adults get combination pertussis-diphtheria-tetanus shot, but the tetanus is a 10-year and the pertussis only lasts 4-5 in some cases.

Fortunately it's not life threatening in adults, and I didn't pass it on to any of my coworkers' kids.