Get Your Bullshit Out Of Here: Anti-Vaxxers

     Lately there have been many outbreaks of viruses and diseases that have made many people sick and killed a few too. Some of these illnesses have been proven to be preventable by just getting a shot of two but there are many people out there that have given into the vaccine conspiracy and a lot of those people are parents refusing to vaccinate their children.

The anti-vaccination movement, a.k.a anti-vaxxers, is the irrational mistrust of vaccines and vaccinations. This movement
blames vaccines for a countless amount of maladies. Vaccine-preventable diseases have been a major cause of illness, death, and disability throughout human history. Most Americans and Europeans have very little memory of a pre-vaccine era where viruses like mumps, measles, smallpox and polio were common and often very deadly. In recent times there has been a lot of debate about the possible side effect and if the out weigh the risks of leaving the population un-protects from viruses.

In the year 2000 measles was practically eliminated from the U.S., with fewer than 100 cases per year, but in the last year there has been more than 644 reported cases making it the worst outbreak of measles in 20 years. We have also just recently had the biggest whooping cough outbreak in 70 years.

There are lots of people concerned with what they are exactly putting into their bodies which is understandable but at what point does it become ridiculous and dangerous?

This belief is unlikely to dissipate anytime soon, despite the evidence exemplifying the safety of vaccines. It has several important factors that make it a very durable belief:

1. It involves harm to children.
2. It involves science that most people do not understand.
3. It involves using a painful method (a needle) to inject a foreign substance into our bodies. Some of them even have
4. remnants of inactive viruses!
5. It is frightening.
6. It seems on its face to “make sense,” especially to make sense of an otherwise unexplainable tragedy.

Personally i think that this whole conspiracy around vaccines is absolutely ridiculous and not only does it put your life in danger it also put everyone else’s life in danger. It is extremely selfish for you not to vaccinate children and yourself.