Vaccines work. They have always worked. If you don't vaccinate your children you are putting them, and others, at risk.
Things we shouldn’t have to say in 2019:
— Climate change is not a Chinese hoax
— White nationalism is bad
— Vaccinate your damn kids
The fact that we have to deal with measles as a public health risk, again, is ridiculous. Vaccines work. They have always worked. If you don’t vaccinate your children you are putting them, and others, at risk.
That’s what may be the most appalling aspect of parent’s who selfishly decide not to vaccinate. Vaccine rely on herd immunity to protect the most vulnerable. There are people, mostly the young and elderly, who can’t be vaccinated because of their health. These vulnerable people rely on the rest of us, the herd, not to carry around deadly diseases that were eradicated decades ago with a simple injection.
Your refusal to vaccinate your child because some quack on the internet told you it may cause autism – it doesn’t -is putting kids with real problems at risk.
Real scientists with decades of experience and mountains of data have proven that vaccines work. It’s not like this information is hiding. The studies on vaccine efficacy are readily available for anyone who cares to read them.
It might be more interesting to believe in some half-baked conspiracy theory you saw online but it’s hurting your kid. Vaccines are not some big pharma scam to bilk you. The U.S. had trouble getting the pharmaceutical companies to produce enough vaccines because they are so unprofitable.
Nobody is conspiring to poison your child. Keep them safe, get them vaccinated.
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