Online anti-vaxxers, conflating Covid and MMR theories, are convincing parents against immunising their children
The easiest way to enforce this is via schools, make it mandatory for children to be vaccinated if they want to go to school. That’ll get the holistic middle class nutters vaccinated in no time.
But she doesn’t know who to trust. “I’ve done some research but feel like a lot of the info on the web is pro-vaccine,” she writes.
Really makes you wonder, why that would be the case.
“I decided what the answer was and then I can’t find any evidence to support my answer”
This is the consequence of pushing an experimental vaccine on people and telling people if they don’t take it they’ll die. People will distrust vaccines that will take years to repair and do so much damage.
It’s mainly the consequence of a resurgence in the Andrew Wakefield nonsense around MMR from years ago. Wakefield is, of course a charlatan who falsified data, had a commercial interest in his narrative and was subsequently struck-off.
The mRNA vaccines for Covid-19 were indeed fast-tracked through approvals - not surprising in the a global pandemic - but were still throughly tested for their ability to reduce serious illness and were very effective. The number of people who suffered adverse affects, compared with the number of people helped is tiny.
You’ll remember, of course that vaccines weren’t and aren’t compulsory. I was privileged to work at a vaccine hub during the first lock down - in charge of managing the queues of people who had booked in to get a jab.
