Do you miss Guillain– Barré? I think there is validity on both sides of the vaccine debate. If it were my child would I get the vaccines? Yes but I would prefer them be spread out over time. The huge rush is simply for getting as many as possible as soon as possible is likely education funding driven. Meaning simply school doesn't want Pre-K kids {4 year olds} missing school. Pre-K and Kindergarten brought on most of the rush. I think both grade levels should be ended and kids start school at six.
If Autism ran in my family I would also be cautious and go for a minimal worse disease vaccines only route.
In 1985 when my wife suddenly went quadriplegic one of the first questions the Neurologist asked her was about any recent vaccines. If there wasn't a link why would he ask the question? Guillain– Barré was just beginning to be understood. No she didn't have that but a similar autoimmune disorder possibly caused from undetected dormant Polio from many years past.
I've seen some of the horrors some vaccines even given adults can do. Some Mothers who took a shot in the late 1950's during pregnancy ended up having kids with missing limbs. I can't remember what the shot was for but I saw a few kids with it in school. Both sides of the vaccine issue have legitimate & very valid concerns. Not all immune systems are created equal but our national immunization program is ran as if all are.
“Mothers who took a shot in the late 1950’s during pregnancy ended up having kids with missing limbs. I can’t remember what the shot was for but I saw a few kids with it in school.”
That was not a vaccine.
That was thalidomide, which was a morning sickness drug. It was developed by Otto Abros, a Nazi.
The drug thalidomide and the tragedies associated with it were the impetitus for the larger and intrusive FDA as we know it today.