I banged myself up so many times as a child that I do not know that I got a tetanus shot every time I got stitches. It might have just seemed like it. I don't remember getting any tetanus boosters when I was a kid other than when I had had some type of incident. Oh, and I am anti-mandatory-vax as well. Which I had to repeat over and over in a similar thread last month.
We have legislation in Washington State that is currently going through the legislature that will result in mandatory vaccinations and will be signed by our insane governor and upheld by our all liberal State Supreme Court.
The problem here is that the anti-vaxers have been responsible for so much misleading, dangerous and outright false information being spread that they have scared many responsible parents from getting their kids any vaccinations. One should be able to make a risk assessment on individual shots. Until the huge illegal immigration migration into this country most of the illnesses that these inoculations are meant to protect against had been eliminated so not wanting to expose your children to the known risks of inoculations was reasonable.
We know a number of families who home-school and have not had their children inoculated. In most cases they believe in eating only “all natural organic” foods, no candy, and a many home remedies for illnesses. I don't have a problem with this, except that some of them take it to screwball levels and the parents in some cases have passed on extreme paranoia about a number of issues to their older children especially.
I know a 19 year old girl who wanted to join the military, but she is afraid to because she is afraid of getting inoculated. I have known boys who wanted to become firefighters or police but are afraid to because they are afraid of getting inoculated.
One odd thing about the families that I know is that the families who are like this did not vote for President Trump as another poster alluded to in this thread. They were mostly Ted Cruz fans who could not accept that he had lost. So they mostly didn't bother to vote at all. The weirdest thing is that they are mostly are parents who have been heavy pot smokers and believe strongly that this is congruent with being “all natural” and a true conservative. It seems like there is a strange disharmony in some people's thought process related to heavy pot smoking that results in a distorted paranoia about anything related to large institutions. Not that this is completely unfounded in many cases but there is a strange disharmony in the thought process in many long term potheads.
We know a number of families who home-school and have not had their children inoculated.
My family has been around hundreds of other homeschool families through the years, every week, in homeschooled classes. There are no vaccine requirements in those classes. Yet, in all those years, not once was there ever an outbreak of the measles or even the chickenpox.
Most likely most of our children were inoculated. Most families aren't refusing all shots. I went along with every vaccination shot for each of my children and trusted the doctor's office to keep accurate records, UNTIL one day the doctor's office had some confusion with my children's immunization records. That's when I put the brakes on. I stopped trusting the doctors then and started looking into and thinking about each shot - and started keeping my own records.