i feel like these conversations will go in circles forever regardless of how much sound evidence is presented. i think that there is a good chance that all the studies are fake, there is a good chance that the government lies and steals your money, and there is a good chance that there are people who get very sick from vaccines. I think the rest of it is just nuts. Here are a few points that I need to spit out:
my kids were vaccinated and almost all of them walked before 12 months. 2 walked before 9 months. three got sick all the time as infants and never again for the next 15-20 years, two are always sick. I work with children with developmental delays and i can assure you there is no such pattern in my daled amos. I myself had shingles as an infant so I was not vaccinated with the MMR until i gave birth.
regarding autism: you are mixing apples and rubiks cubes. Whether or not a vaccine is healthy or not healthy is completely separate from whether or not it is the cause of autism. Pick your fight and stick to it. 30 years ago symptoms of autism would appear shortly after the child turned 18 months old. this was also the time that the child received certain shots. I think that made the vaccines an easy target. But you know what? It ain’t the case anymore. These kids now show signs of autism (and I have seen it myself) within the first months of birth. BEFORE they would even get immunized. But i will tell you that there is a HUGE number of parents who are in denial about their children’s development, especially in regards to autism, so maybe vaccines cause denial. Or vaccines allow a parent to find a place to rest their denial.
The funny thing (tho it is hardly funny) is that of the 100’s of parents of autistic children I have worked with, almost all laugh in the face of this vaccine idea. They think it is a joke. Many believe that autism is caused by Gd! of all crazy things, right? and many see it correlate to food allergies. I have to say that food allergies is the strongest option i have seen as a possible contributor.
If you don’t want to vaccinate your children, that’s fine. but be sure to keep them away from the elderly and people on immunosupressants and chemo AT ALL TIMES. your child is a loaded gun. And you mentioned before that it isn’t valid to compromise your child’s health for the greater society (forgot how you worded it)well good for you. But don’t you dare compromise the health of the greater society for your child.