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Originally Posted by Dad01
My simple question to parents who refuse to immunize their kids against common childhood illnesses [not flu or covid] , what kind of evidence would you like to see that will change your mind ?
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Part of the problem ironically is the actual success that vaccination programs have had. You have to understand that a lot of the endemic infectious agents that we had around are unheard of by the general public. When I took pathogenic bacteriology there was a lot of bacteria that I had never heard of. When there was outbreaks in the general public most of the time the actual name of the agent nobody cared about. It was simply called meningitis or the by a symptom based name. If it didn't infect out area or never came to our area then nobody cared on a local scale.
Vaccination programs target specific organisms which is why the list of vaccines expanded. People started complaining about the number of vaccines once success was achieved with vaccines. They got used to not seeing those infections and with no outbreaks it left the minimal consciousness it had to begin with. Who needs something nobody has heard of and it is not causing problems on a large scale?
People tend to believe that they can do without vaccines because of the decreased incidence they see. The number tends to be increasing as they can still hide behind herd immunity created by people who vaccinate.
People have come up with modern age theories concerning bringing up children in sterile environments limiting exposures to organisms as detrimental to immunity development. They claim immunity derived through natural infections is more robust and they through measles parties. They claim diseases with low death rates and call them benign like measles. They claim that vaccines are unsafe because they are unnatural and foreign to the body. Anything manmade is bad and by definition unnatural and so the body handles it differently than what it does with natural products.
Good luck my friend. I hope we don't get back to the way it was before the vaccines to get people to vaccinate because of the rapid rise of infections we fought off successfully years ago.
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