The video influenced the way I think about vaccines in that I was never before aware that there was a whole population of people against vaccinations for their own children. To me, this matter seemed clearly black and white and the positive nature of vaccines seemed like common and accepted knowledge or fact, but such is not the case.
A herd community is a community that, due to lack of immunization, brings back diseases that are gone. Inevitable cause an outbreak that will spread.
Vaccines have increased life spans by 30 years; their benefit is clear as so many disease are now gone. 16 diseases are currently preventable for children.
Vaccination is different from other types of personal health decisions because it affects other people as well.
Some moms want their children to contract illnesses and get sick as people have been for so many years; don't see anything wrong with getting sick or having the chicken pox. Why not just keep vaccines even if polio and such diseases are gone? Due to rare but serious adverse risks. A certain proportion of people get swelling and pain lasting from an hour to a day. A very very very small percentage of people get an allergic reaction. Even smaller subset of people have actual serious reactions (deafness, seizures, brain damages); so small that something else could have caused it. In one case, caused ADD and learning disorders in an initially healthy and precocious child. Barbara Fisher finds the risk of injury or death to be greater than the benefit.
Parents accuse vaccination as a cause for ADHD and autism, and they prefer the Measles over Autism.
The MMR Triple shot is blamed most for causing autism in children. Vaccines also cause brain injury in a small segment of the population.
Young mothers not only don't see certain diseases but didn't even grow up with them, making vaccination a matter of faith. Some parents see doctors as profit-oriented... they see vaccines as a business meant to make people money. Does financial benefit matter though? Who cares if the doctors are making money, at least they're saving lives.
Vaccinations also carry with it the problems of it's own success in this way. It's success leads people, especially parents, to question the doctor's motives.
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