No one is suggesting that YOU don't get vaccinated!
That is your choice, just as it is mine to not vaccinate. Odds are if someone has chosen not to vaccinate then we're making a decision based on facts. Before I came to the conclusion to avoid vaccines I did more research on the subject than I did on any project or paper throughout my college education. I didn't blindly accept one side of the issue. I examined both sides intensely. I didn't ignore one side of the argument at the jumping off point. That's not objective and assumptions don't help you get to the truth. This was, after all, an issue of life and death. How much research does the average joe that chooses to vaccinate do? Great well it's your kid and I can't stop you from feeding him/her McDonald's either and I don't to take away those rights from you.
Another aspect to consider when you speak of the serious consequences resulting from vaccinable diseases pre vaccine is that they were prevalent in a time when healthcare was non existent. Hygeine was non existent. Clean water was non existent. Cities were growing at a pace where none of these things could be kept up with, and cities with overcrowded conditions are where most of these epidemics took place.
Whooping cough, measels, chicken pox etc are all treatable and the percentage of people that get them and die or are significantly damaged by them is as small as the significant risks associated with vaccines.
I'm not suggesting you don't vaccinate your child or do your own due diligence on the subject and come to your own conclusions. I can live with your choices. Please try to live with mine.
