The wonderful herd immunity that we have gotten used to in the developed world is now breaking down in some areas, because of these inaccurate stories of associated side effects. In reality you are ten times more likely to be struck by lightening than you are to have any kind of adverse affect from a vaccine that a doctor would actually diagnose it as such.
If you are turning down childhood vaccines for your children based on these crackpot theories, rather than trusting the hundreds of thousands of expert doctors and scientists that endorse them? Then I’m not sure what more I can say to you. Sorry.
Not quite on the same scale as rejecting the MMR for your baby, but you also meet the odd person who doesn’t just not worry about the flu jab, but who is actually against it, stating they have no need, or that it’s another cost the NHS doesn’t need. Yes, it’s the less well in our community, the diseased, the young, the elderly who are more likely to die from flu. But if you still think flu is a few days in bed watching Hallmark movies with a box of tissues, think again. Flu can be pretty random in who it kills. Getting vaccinated, if you can, will not only protect you, but helps provide herd immunity for those less well around you. And no, you cannot catch the flu from a jab, and yes, vaccine programmes cost, but not nearly as much as anti-virals or admissions for flu do.
Of course, I’m pro choice and all that. I mean, look how well Brexit is turning out for us, right?
