I have to assume that you never had the REAL diseases nor saw the effects of complications arising from the REAL diseases.
We, of the generation that had the real diseases, saw the birth defects caused by rubella during pregnancy, saw the wasting limbs left by polio (and the pictures of kids in iron lungs), gladly had our children vaccinated and were thankful that there were finally vaccines to eliminate these vile diseases.
You would be assuming incorrectly -
Since I’m closer to 50 now than 40, I bet I did see kids with the measles growing up, I may have even shared a home with two of them. I’m still not sure why the boys got some things, and I got others. I might know someone paralyzed by the oral polio vaccination when she was 10. Unfortunately, she died of lung cancer a couple of years ago...she didn’t realize there was something serious going on because of the paralysis.
I was vaccinated as a kid and later in college, but I’m still not immune and had to be careful of who I was around when pregnant...I understand the risks, of both the diseases and the manufactured “cure”.