RE: Washington's Measle Outbreak and Vaccinations
On the graph above, for which no source was provided, diphteria vaccination is indicated to have been introduced in 1940 and 1950 when in reality effective immunisations campaigns started in the 1920s ( source https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/diphtheria https://www.vaccines.gov/diseases/diphtheria/index.html). This is particularly vicious, since the objective of those graphs is to "prove" that there is no correlation between vaccine introduction and reduction in death rate. Furthermore, why mention scarlet fever and typhoid fever death rates in a vaccination debate, when the disease can be treated by antibiotics? Those are just 2 things I noticed immediately, but to an uninformed eye this information seems pretty reliable. There are probably many more innacuracies in the graph above, but I'm not gonna waste my time looking for them.
This is the kind of disinformation that anti-vaxxers spread and then they pledge for letting people make "educated choices". Litterally any piece of evidence that doesn't fit their agenda is dismissed as part of a conspiracy, and yet they don't even bother to mention their sources.
It is a personal choice. No one owes the rest of the "herd" immunity.
I'm not an antivaxxor my children received the immunizations that protected them against diseases that were likely to do more harm than the vaccination. They were not vaccinated for those where the risks were close. Like... Measles.
None of the argument makes sense, I should have to vaccinate my kid so yours is safer... screw that. Ask the manufactors to make a vaccination that works better and is safer.
At the end of the day it is a decision of medical risk that no one has a right to make for anyone else.