Report: Anti-vaxers gain momentum in the US

[Cairycat]

20. Do you all really trust multinational corporations that much?

You don't think they'd have any incentive to downplay adverse effects, even serious ones? Or trust the reporting system for problems with vaccinations?

I did have my kids vaccinated, but I always felt I was taking a risk. Just that the risk of the diseases prevented were greater. But I certainly didn't see vaccinations as completely harmless. I delayed a couple vax for my youngest (don't think they need an entire boatload of vax before even leaving the hospital), and none of them had any vax they weren't legally required to get.

They did get whooping cough from an unvaccinated classmate of my daughter's, but recovered quickly with antibiotics. I have friends who don't vaccinate whose kids got whooping cough - they also recovered but much more slowly.

I do not think pharmaceutical corporations are entirely trustworthy. I think there are parents who have legitimate misgivings about vaccinations, and maybe instead of calling them all stupid, and saying it's because they don't want their kids stuck with a needle (... really??), maybe we should go about improving the reporting system, and establishing a saner vaccination schedule where a baby's immune system is not inundated with multiple vax shortly after birth.