But ......
But ......
But, like aren't the vaccines man-made and thus artificial and like full of stuff that's not natural? So why can't I just, you know, get my kid infected with the real virus at full strength, and let their little body build up an immunity that way?
Did these parents not even rtead the comic-book version of the story that explained that Jenner used cowpox - a close but weaker disease than smallpox - to vaccinate folks?
Did these parents miss the part where the vaccines are made with "weakened" virii, or even dead virii?
I am old enough to remember when polio was around. Watching kids get sick with what looked like a really bad case of the flu, then get worse with joints that almost bent backwards and needed steel braces to keep them from doing that. Kids winding up in iron lungs because their bodies were so paralyzed they could not breathe on their own. And if they survived, needing a different set of braces to prop them up because they had lost almost all their muscle strength. In what seemed like it was overnight there were no more cases of polio - just a whole lot of kids rubbing their sore arms when someone had shoved a needle in.
I also remember when whole towns were shut down when there was a measles outbreak. When roads were closed and guarded by armed men because smallpox had broken out - it wasn't to keep folks out of the area but to prevent folks from the contagion zone from getting out until after the outbreak was over.
These idiot parents are so wound up about whether or not the vaccination has a direct causal relationship with autism that they cannot or will not see that their way of "dealing" with the issue is more likely t wind up killing not one or two kids but possibly wiping out an entire school. If they were not so stupid tey could be terrorists - but I hear you have to know what you are doing to get that label.
I used to threaten the future ex with getting appointed as conservator over her because she was so stupid, and then sticking her in some hell-hole home for adults with a $25/month Social Security "health and comfort" allowance. It might not be a bad idea to apply to become the conservator over some of these folks.
stay safe.