But, as I asked, how many more would you be willing to go along with? Suppose the number reaches 40? Or 50? The point is, everyone has a limit.
Let me turn it around....on what basis do you recommend a different course of vaccination than that recommended by medical science (recognizing that science changes based on available data) for life-threatening illnesses?
I don't recommend a different course of vaccinations, nor do I try to discourage anyone from being vaccinated. People are free to make their own informed medical decisions (as long as they're not denying medical care to a child who actually does have a life-threatening illness or injury).
For the record, I spent the past year as practically a full-time patient myself. My team of doctors is top-notch, and I did almost everything they wanted me to do. But, in the end, this body is mine (as one surgeon pointed out), so I have to weigh the options and make the decisions. Sometimes doctors disagree with each other, and we, the patients, have to decide whose advice to take. Sometimes good doctors are wrong - no one is perfect - and through the years, there have been times my children have been misdiagnosed and/or have received the wrong treatments. So, we as patients and parents need to ask questions because the decisions are ours to make. (BTW, ironically, with the latest change in the vaccine schedule, my kids received all of the shots except for a couple of booster shots, plus a couple of vaccines that were not required until recently, anyway.)
I never claimed medical science is infallible.
It just uses the best data it has.
With Vaccines, much of the variability is due to statistical analysis, modeling and such. They shoot for some level of immunity in the general population with a certain course of shots. Sometimes they find that the immunity is better than predicted, sometimes they find certain vaccines are more effective than others, etc.
If you’d have them ignore that data, fine, but it is the right thing to do, in my opinion, to keep studying and make adjustments when data says you can meet the same goal of immunity with a different course of action.
As for the rest of medicine, much of it is of the “lookup table” variety, not requiring a huge amount of creativity - match the symptom with the pill. But it’s the stuff that doesn’t fall into that where they earn their money - and surgeons - well they earn their money with a trail of success.
I do not advocate anything but vaccines for life-threatening illness. I generally do not get flu shots - because the flu, for me, isn’t life-threatening. I didn’t get my kids the chicken pox vaccine - because it’s life-threatening in only very unusual circumstances.
The childhood diseases that can be vaccinated against should be - and unless you have something better on your side, you should just follow the vaccine schedule. The risk of complication for shot vs illness is ridiculously one-sided in favor of vaccination.