Most parents who skip or delay getting their kids vaccinated typically say that they are worried about something they read or heard about, often online.
That’s easy to understand with how vocal anti-vaccine influencers can be…
Vaccines Are the Wrong Thing to Be Worried About
The thing is, though, vaccines are safe, with few risks, and very necessary.
And if you are looking at this from any kind of risk/benefit perspective, then instead of vaccines, it is the risk from vaccine-preventable diseases that you want to avoid.
Now sure, it has been fairly easy to avoid that risk when everyone else is vaccinated and protected and you can free-ride on their protection.
Hiding in the herd can work when vaccination rates are high and we have vaccine-preventable diseases under good control.
Of course, that strategy begins to fail as vaccination rates drop.
Then we see more cases, more outbreaks, and even some deaths.
Then we see the true risks of the vaccine-preventable diseases that most of us work to avoid.
Vaccine-preventable diseases that you can avoid if you get vaccinated and protected and stop listening to anti-vaccine influencers.
This is why onlin antivax influencers must be held accountable. Misinformation kills.
That image is excellent.