Ok serious question. I know why vaccines are important and I'm not an antivax (although I don't believe. Ig pharma 100% either) but there's a question I'm afraid to ask...why are these diseases "making a comeback" I'd they are around they should affect non vaccinated kids right? Why is there a risk for vaccinated kids? I never had smallpox because i had the vaccine. Why is the vaccinated population too at risk?
The biggest issue is for children that cannot get vaccinations because their immunity is compromised in some way. For example, some auto-immune disorders can make it unsafe for a person to get certain vaccines. If an otherwise healthy child contracts measles and spreads it to children that can’t be vaccinated, that’s pretty lame.
It’s also terrible to see children sick and dying from preventable disease. More over, if the whole group/tribe/herd is immune, the disease will die out out (e.g. smallpox) and no longer be a threat nor require vaccination.
These diseases are commonly vaccinated against because they are life threatening and have potentially severe side effects. Vaccines are not life threatening and do not have severe side effects. (The autism thing has been disproven and also is autism really worse that death ?)
Herd immunity mostly. If most of the population is vaccinated, the chance of spreading a disease is low. If the % of non-vaccinated people rises too much, herd immunity goes away, and the disease spreads much easier.
also, some diseases mutate over time and gain resistance to vaccines... so the vaccine you took 20 years ago might not be effective against a particular strain of a virus. this is very true of influenza (flu) shots.
Also, no vaccine (or anything else for that matter) is 100% effective. We can get close, but there will always be that small % of the population that it just doesn't work for.
more like illegal immigrants and refugees
also, while I think that vaccines may be harmful (if not necessarily intentionally), it would be retarded to put your unvaxxed kid in a school
why these people don't homeschool is beyond me
illegal immigrants and refugees never got vaccinated, and they get placed in with everybody else
an outbreak happens, and the anti-vaxxers get blamed for it
It’s also terrible to see children sick and dying from preventable disease. More over, if the whole group/tribe/herd is immune, the disease will die out out (e.g. smallpox) and no longer be a threat nor require vaccination.
These diseases are commonly vaccinated against because they are life threatening and have potentially severe side effects. Vaccines are not life threatening and do not have severe side effects. (The autism thing has been disproven and also is autism really worse that death ?)
also, while I think that vaccines may be harmful (if not necessarily intentionally), it would be retarded to put your unvaxxed kid in a school
why these people don't homeschool is beyond me
an outbreak happens, and the anti-vaxxers get blamed for it