I've developed a standard policy of not talking to anti-vaxxers about vaccines, because it's an attitude so thoroughly grounded in fearmongering and willful ignorance. (Also, how many of them drive with their children in their cars? Yeah, my case: I rest it.)
And yet I am, myself, fairly moderate re: vaccination. I am not flapping with joy about combination vaccines (I'd rather have an M, an M and an R spread out across a greater time period than an MMR in one day, especially in tiny babies), or the extremely short time period between vaccines for infants. But being at least as cautious about jabbing our hypothetical kids with dead bacteria as we are with feeding them peanuts, wheat and honey is not the same thing as decrying vaccination all together.
(Wow, that was longer than it had to be. In brief, yay herd immunity!)
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I've developed a standard policy of not talking to anti-vaxxers about vaccines, because it's an attitude so thoroughly grounded in fearmongering and willful ignorance. (Also, how many of them drive with their children in their cars? Yeah, my case: I rest it.)
And yet I am, myself, fairly moderate re: vaccination. I am not flapping with joy about combination vaccines (I'd rather have an M, an M and an R spread out across a greater time period than an MMR in one day, especially in tiny babies), or the extremely short time period between vaccines for infants. But being at least as cautious about jabbing our hypothetical kids with dead bacteria as we are with feeding them peanuts, wheat and honey is not the same thing as decrying vaccination all together.
(Wow, that was longer than it had to be. In brief, yay herd immunity!)