before you decide you don't want to vaccinate your children you should have to take a 4 hour cemetery tour with me where i point out every tiny little headstone of a child that died from a preventable disease and is buried with their parents who would have done anything to save them
now if you look to your left you can see that this family, like many others, had so many children die so quickly that they built a single shared memorial to all their dead children. where are you going, we're not done
there's a children's walk in the local cemetary that people still leave dolls and flowers at all the time.
some of the graves are fairly recent! like kids were dieing of infections and polio up untill pretty recently.
The Economist podcast recently had an obit of a guy my mom’s age (70s) who lived his life in an iron lung.
If you don’t want to vaccinate your kids, go ask your mom or grandmoms for an opinion on childhood disease.
Shit, my dad's cousin had polio. He survived, but couldn't walk again. These are RECENT diseases and we eradicated them and it fucking kills me that we're bringing them back due to our own ignorance and hubris.
People had just stopped dying of polio when I started school - I think I was in the first year to get the polio vaccine via "sip" in NZ. There was a boy in my class who had a withered leg due to polio nerve damage
