Reply #179: Again, your personal anecdotes

[jeff47]

have nothing to do with whether or not a disease is deadly. Chicken pox can kill children.

"I'm in no way arguing against vaccinating people against deadly diseases."

Except you are.

"I'm just saying that the child mortality rate hasn't changed much since the 1980s"

As long as you count "reduced by half" as not changing much. 14.9 per 1000 newborns in 1980 to 7.8 per 1000 in 2009.
http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met_y=sh_dyn_mort&idim=country:USA&dl=en&hl=en&q=child+mortality+statistics

Again, your anecdotes are not data.

"so why is it so important that parents follow this year's exact vaccine schedule?"

Why is it so important to not follow it? The idea behind the schedule is to vaccinate as early as is safe, since that gives the greatest protection against the disease. Other than a misguided sense of the capabilities of the immune system, what's the objection to the schedule?