For me, it seems almost unreal that we are still combating the illegitimate and incoherent arguments made by anti-vax parents. However, just like the viruses they’ve subjected themselves to, they somehow persist.
The Anti-Vaccine Activists have, in effect, taken science and medicine hostage. The pro-vaccine logic and arguments are overwhelming. Truthfully, there is (almost) no reason for anyone not to take advantage of the miraculous vaccines that are available around the western world today.
Fear, for all of human history has made people act irrationally. This is again the case with vaccines. The fear in this instance is that vaccines, somehow, are dangerous and cause an issue much worse than the ones they prevent. In reality though, it is the opposite. Many will remember back to 2015 when Disneyland experienced a measles outbreak. At least 125 people were sickened by the disease, with nearly all of them being unvaccinated.
I have written at least one other article highlighting the importance of vaccination. Specifically the dangers it can pose to others around the unvaccinated persons. However, the idiocy does not stop.
The madness that has torn across the world began with an article that has since been debunked over and over again. There is no doubt of the falsehood in the claim that autism is caused by vaccines, in the scientific community that is.
The fear is coupled by the popular desire of many mothers to be a unique ‘blogger mom’. That desire is wholly disgusting, dangerous, and vile. Parents who reject science in order to be different and “cool” are putting their kids and others around the country in danger for their interest in popularity.
Logic in this situation, as is becoming ever more common in the modern world, does not seem like a feasible solution.
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