The dunderheads in the media (and I think too many docs unfortunately) seem to think the “autism” link is the only reason for refusal, as if there are no other good reasons like:
* use of fetal cell lines from abortions
* use of adjuvants other than mercury, like aluminum
* use of egg or other allergens
* the sheer aggressiveness of piggybacked vaccines
* vaccinations for normal, non-fatal childhood diseases (chickenpox)
* Gardasil (need I say more)
Vaccines are not panaceas. Every vaccination is a cost benefit analysis that has to be weighed individually.
They are marketed as if you take them you won’t ever catch what you’ve been immunized for. That is simply not true.
More and more doctors and nurses have stopped vaccinating their kids or have skipped some of the vaccines for their kids.
Most adults have had far fewer vaccines, spaced further apart across the years, than todays kids. In my day there were about 5-6 vaccines. Not there are over 20. Then there are sexual vaccines that Merck needs to make money on.
To say these vaccines never get contaminated, anyone about Merck and the SV-40 viruses in their polio vaccines that THEY KNEW ABOUT and didn’t do jack sh1t about? That have led to a bunch of cancers and where many believe AIDS evolved from?
That no doctor ever used expired vaccines on people? That no doctor ever gave a vaccine that was supposed to be dead but still had live viruses that wound up giving the person the illness, sometimes a permanent one (again, polio) and others? That they have never found live viruses in vaccines that were assured to be dead viruses?
There’s plenty of reasons to seriously consider NOT taking vaccines. I don’t take vaccines so everyone else can be happy and think they are safer. I’d take them for ME, and then only if I knew they were safe and not made from aborted baby stem cell lines.
* the sheer aggressiveness of piggybacked vaccines
... I agree and think that is the worst, most dangerous example. I started to look differently at Dr.s when my toddler daughter was in the Emerg Room for a febral seizure and the Docs wanted to give her a Spinal Tap ... just to rule out menengitis (or cover their butts for legal). My wife and I said over my dead body and checked her out post haste.
It’s a different world out there and no longer the days of Dr. Welby...
ymmv
I suffered from whooping cough, the chicken pox and the German Measles (twice). I vividly remember those illnesses as a child. I have family members who live with the effects of polio. I made sure my children were vaccinated.
I found it interesting that an acquaintance refused to have her child vaccinated (the 80’s). She was very vocal about it, criticizing those who did. When her child reached adulthood they joined the US Army and had to have them all anyway - as an adult. I bet that was way more miserable than having it done as a child.