I have no sympathy or respect for anti-vaxxers. If you refuse to be vaccinated or refuse to get your kids vaccinated because of your paranoia, you don't deserve my respect or sympathy if you get sick. If you become severely ill or terminally ill from a preventable disease because you refused to be vaccinated for that disease, it serves you right. Karma's a fucking bitch like that.
But by refusing vaccines, you're not just putting yourself and your kids at risk, you're putting other people––especially kids and elderly people––at risk too. So if your child dies from a preventable disease, like measles...That's your own damn fault.

Vaccines kickstart your immune system to build up defense against stronger diseases and viruses. In extremely rare cases (or you're careless enough to get a vaccine from someone in a back alleyway instead of a licensed practitioner), vaccines can be harmful/lethal. But the only real common threat vaccines pose is if you're allergic to penicillin. When you get a vaccine, you're only getting a very weak/dead strain of the virus or disease that's controlled by a small amount of medicine (e.g. the penicillin). The antibodies in your blood react to the strain and mount an army of antibodies to attack and destroy the strain. That way, if you ever get a real/strong strain of the same disease later, your body already knows how to fight it, so it's much less likely to kill you.

Did you know that influenza (the flu) used to kill people in the old days? If you developed a cough, you would be on your death bed a few days. In 1918, the flu killed 20-40 million people in one year. It's now ranked as the worst epidemic in world history. Not even the fucking bubonic plague killed that many people during the Medieval era. And that's saying something because history books made that fucker sound terrifying, since it took out about 60% of Europe's population and reduced a good quarter of the world's total population too. The fitting nicknames "The Black Death" or the "Black Plague" made it even more frightening.

The ebola epidemic that broke out in West Africa during 2013-2016 affected over 28,000 people and killed about 11,500. Why did it get that bad? Because the most hard-hit African countries didn't have access to modern medicine, such as vaccines. That's why the US hardly ever has an epidemic as bad as that. We have modern medicine. When epidemics break out and everybody rushes to find a cure? They're talking about developing a vaccine against it. Cures = vaccines. That's really the only effective way you can treat or terminate any disease...Through vaccines.

That "Plague Inc" app that is really popular with smartphones is about trying to kill off everyone on the planet by developing a virus/disease that is difficult to find a cure for and is easily contagious. As far as I understand it, you lose the game if countries develop cures for it. Without vaccines, that game would be real life.

I got a booster shot that defended against 3 different diseases/viruses (one of them was influenza) before I left on my trip. I've been in New Zealand for 5 months now. And I haven't even caught so much as a cold...And there was a flu-bug going around town when I first arrived too.

I have a friend who frequently gets really sick with the flu almost every month or so...All because she refuses to get a flu-shot. If you got a flu-shot whenever pharmacies/doctors advertised them, you would have much less sick-days.

I hardly ever get sick anymore...because I'm smart enough to get my vaccines updated. The last time I was truly sick in bed was a few years ago, Mother's Day. It was that rare time where a vaccine didn't work and I ended up with the complete upper-respiratory flu. The fever, the fatigue, the hoarse voice, coughing fits...The whole thing. I didn't even have to tell anyone I was sick; you could tell just from looking at me. I got a flu-shot 3 months earlier from the school doctor, which was supposed to cover me against 3 out of 4 strains. Well...I guess I must have caught that one flu-strain that the vaccine didn't prevent. But I was only in stuck in bed for a day. My family left me alone in bed all day, only coming in once or twice to check up on me if I was awake.
...The very next day, I felt much better and no longer had a fever. (Probably because I spent my sick-day sleeping and drinking vitamin-enhanced water.)
_{My grandparents were over at the time...When they were leaving, my grandma only gave me a verbal goodbye and a "I'm not touching you." Elderly people are much more susceptible to diseases.}

"B-But vaccines cause autism!!1!!"
The quack who started that scam and published a paper about it had his medical license revoked as punishment. So, sorry, but that argument is invalid. Try again.

Besides, autism is a disorder believed to be caused by genetics, like most disorders. It all has to do with your DNA.
...And vaccines can't alter DNA. They only involve contagions (viruses, bacterial diseases, etc). So in truth, your fear of vaccines is nothing more than paranoia built on misinformation and being gullible af.

"But I was never vaccinated and I'm still alive and well!"
Bullshit. That's probably because you were vaccinated as an infant. Most infants receive a small set of mandatory vaccines shortly after they're born because infants are the most susceptible to harmful/lethal diseases, as their immune system is incredibly weak af. Even the fucking common cold can kill infants. You might think it's just a harmless cough, but if your newborn/infant is coughing, fucking take them to the doctor.

If it weren't for vaccines, you would be dead by now. You wouldn't have lasted this long if you went your whole life not vaccinated. You could live a sheltered, cloistered life, with no interaction with people at all...And still die from a disease that you picked up from somewhere.

So unless you're an extraterrestrial and immune to all human diseases/viruses, the only reason why you're still alive today is because you were most likely vaccinated as a child.

Get yourself and your kids vaccinated, you fucking paranoid ignoramuses.

Or do you want to be held responsible for their death or some other child's death?

Hell, I fucking hate shots. I have a huge phobia with syringes near my skin and I can't watch sharp things or other things going into my skin, thanks to a traumatic memory of getting blood drawn out of my arm as a child. I was screaming bloody murder and struggled so much, my dad had to hold me down. And because I kept struggling to run away, it fucking hurt even more.
...But I still put on my brave face and look away whenever I get a shot. As long as I don't look, it's not so bad. It only pinches.
_{And then sometimes my muscle is sore for a while afterwords...But that's it.}

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