This is what happens when a society deals with prosperity at a level unprecedented in human history: we start to forget.
George Santayana comes to mind right now.
I’ve heard this bullsh*t from both sides all my adult life. Remember, in a FREE REPUBLIC we still have the right to choose to vaccinate or not to vaccinate ourselves and our minor children. The low information voters expect the government to decide what is best for them. At some point in the future,they will accept mandatory vaccination and oversight by the government. Everyone knows its the best decision for the masses or is it?. You can still choose, so choose wisely after considering the facts.
As with any decisions, the outcome is not always guaranteed. To blindly assume that vaccinations will always prevent or eradicate a disease is totally erroneous. You can be vaccinated and still contract the disease. You can be vaccinated and never contract the disease. You can incur unexpected side-effects, some worse than the disease, from the vaccination. It’s like betting on the horses, the more you know, the better your chances are you have picked a winner. Either way, life is a gamble but choosing blindly should not be one of them.
Research the negative side effects of vaccination as well as the positive. Ask your doctor if his/her children were vaccinated and about what could possibly go wrong in either case. Ask if your childs immune system is healthy enough to undergo vaccination. Know that vaccination is giving your child a weakened form of the disease to develop an immunity to the disease for a period of time (not always a lifetime). Giving the disease to the child with an underdeveloped immune system might not be the right thing to do at this stage of development. Know that most children will develop an immunity either naturally or artificially (through vaccination) if their immune systems are healthy.
Yes, there are people that will not vaccinate their children because they believe it is in the best interest of their children not to do so. Some will not because of religious beliefs. Whichever the case, you must choose what is right for you and your children and then you must live with that choice.
Again remember, under a FREE REPUBLIC you can still choose for or against vaccination, but maybe not for much longer.