tzaddiq,
The reason why we are intolerant of those opinions is that they are baseless. I am not an expert in vaccinations, so I trust the recognized experts in the field. I also have plenty of reasons to trust them being that I survived childhood without any major diseases thanks to the vaccines they developed. On the other side of the fence are those who are not experts but they “feel” that vaccines are bad for you.
NOBODY is saying that vaccines have zero risk. Of course it has a risk. But the risk of not getting vaccinated is far greater than the risk of a reaction to a vaccine.
I was with a little kid in the pediatric unit and then the PICU because of rotovirus, so please don’t tell me that vaccines are bad.
Even when we all get red/sore/irritable after the MMR, that is certainly better than being brain damaged due to your mother having the measles while she was pregnant. And the reason why they are/can be rodfim is because that is how vaccinations work, it is never 100% effective, but if greater than X% of the community is vaccinated then it’s mostly effective. By those parents who choose to not vaccinate, they are lowering the herd immunity and causing other children to be susceptible to disease.
If you don’t want to get vaccinate, then move to Alaska. The state will pay you per kid, due to oil dividends, and you can setup a nice community.