and my friend’s that lost their baby 24 hours after vaccinations would strongly disagree with you.
It’s a tough choice trying to do what is best for your child. The best for now and for the future. But it’s a choice that parents need to make based on their convictions and study.
As an adult in college I had to twice take the measles vaccination because I didn’t have proof I’d had it previously. (outbreaks in two different states, 3 years apart) 13 years later when I was pregnant I was told I didn’t have immunity to it (did you have the immunization I was asked)and to stay away from kids who had the measles. Now, with three full rounds of vaccinations in my life - why wouldn’t I be protected from it? Why did my brothers get the mumps when we were all kids, and I didn’t? Why have I never had chicken pox, even though I have babysat kids with it (unknowingly). There’s just nothing certain with the vaccination - they think it works based on herd....but it doesn’t always.
There’s just too many personal and close circle friends that have serious issues from vaccinations that make it, in my opinion, an unsafe option.
I’d rather build up the immunity in my child naturally, avoid the side effects of vaccines (there are many besides autism) and deal with childhood diseases as they come.
You are welcome to choose differently, but you are not welcome to decide what I do for my kid.
The point wasn’t what you as an individual should do but the value and nature of vaccines per se.
So while there may a hundred reasons why you decide against taking vaccines there a a million reasons why others did.
Vaccines have saved countless lives and if you measured anything else in the same benefit/harm ratio we would ban automobiles immediately.