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I am disturbed that in the year 2026, in America, decisions about the health of children aren’t being made based on the best science, but instead based on politics. There is a broad, almost unanimous, 99+ percent medical consensus on correct vaccinations for children. If a family or politician wants to dither with Covid due to how new it is, fine. This is, at least to some degree, understandable. But deviating from the best science, on something like measles, for political purposes, is a historically low moment for this country. There were some real substantive issues with the Covid vaccine. Going from there to “I will never vaccinate anyone in my family or my pets“ is perhaps the best indicator of being an incredibly stupid/gullible person. If you burn your mouth on pizza once, you don’t decide that all food is bad. Deciding to never eat pizza again is already kind of stupid, but come on people. There is no doubt that vaccines have saved at least 150 million lives over the last 50 years. Over that period of time, using the most liberal accounting possible, maybe like 5000 people have died “because of“ vaccines. So if you really, really want to limit the benefits of vaccines and really really talk up the dangers, For every person they kill, vaccines save the lives of 3000 people. If you don’t want to take vaccines that were developed and deployed in a hurry in the middle of a political maelstrom and a global meltdown, I can totally understand that. But giving your kids measles and putting their lives at risk because you’re too stupid to differentiate between the good version of a thing and the bad version of a thing is just embarrassing. Your kid should be more important than your politics.