I’m not opposed to vaccinations but the behavior of the vaccination at any cost crowd is making me glad I don’t have kids.
We do have kids and let me tell you these people are bat-crap statist crazy. You’d swear the way they talk vaccines are AN ABSOLUTE GOOD (tm) that can only be refused by stark raving nutters. I got into it once with some woman about the CDC guidelines....turns out she worked in the vaccine industry, and then admitted that even SHE didn’t follow the CDC guidelines.
How about this...a vaccine is a tool that, like everything else in life, has certain risks and benefits. Someone may decide rationally that for their kid the benefit outweighs the risk and goes to get the shot. Another parent may think that her kid has higher than average risk factors and that the risk of the injection is higher than the risks associated with the disease.
In order for this eminently rational system to work it has to rely on parental choice, but for some of these statist goons that’s not good enough. No, I put their kid at risk for measles or whatever so I have to be forced to give my kid the shot.