Anti-Vaccine Influencers Are Pissin’ in the Wind

The Real Truth About Vaccines

If you truly think vaccines are dangerous and you don’t want to get vaccinated and don’t want to vaccinate your kids, then there is only one thing for you to do. You have to hope that everyone else gets vaccinated and protected!

Candance Owens’ three completely unvaxxed children don’t get sick because they are hiding in the herd, free-riding on the protection of everyone around them who is vaccinated.

That’s right!

No matter what you say or believe about vaccines not working or vaccine-preventable diseases being mild, if you aren’t vaccinating, you are going to rely on free-riding.

If you are not vaccinating, you will survive by hiding in the herd, taking advantage of the protection of everyone else who is vaccinated and protected.

Anti-Vaccine Influencers Are Pissin’ in the Wind

Unfortunately, as anti-vaccine influencers become too popular, more and more people listen to them and become scared to get vaccinated.

The only true thing in Bob Sears’ first book (which he took out of later editions) was that people shouldn’t share their fears of vaccines.

What happens next?

We lose herd immunity levels of protection, we start seeing more outbreaks, and everyone starts to get vaccinated again!

As cases rise ever higher, you might even start hearing calls for vaccine mandates.

It takes a lot of people getting sick, and some dying, but vaccination rates once again increase.

Vaccination rates increase even among those who claim they are ‘anti-vaccine.’

Vaccination rates increase because anti-vaccine influencers become too popular…

It has happened before - smallpox - pertussis - polio - measles.

It is a cycle that will continue to happen until people learn to become more skeptical and stop listening to anti-vaccine influencers.

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