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A friend's having a kid, and is skeptical about vaccines. I'm believe she's doing her own research, but have no idea how reliable whatever sources she's looking at are.
Do any of you happen to know of anyone who goes through which childhood vaccines are best, weighing concerns people raise against likelihood and severity of disease? My immediate searches just bring up either government sites or similar, and extreme skeptics, which is not helpful.
It might be worth letting your friend know it doesn't have to be vax or not. I found the early childhood vaccines to be a slam dunk in terms of risk vs illness, but I wasn't thrilled with the schedule. We did one vaccine at a time. It meant more doc visits, but that wasn't a problem for me and the ped. was fine with spacing them out.
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I felt like it was a case of comparing extreme and unlikely scenarios. Complications of the vaccines vs chance of getting the thing if not vaccinated. For cases where there is some kind of herd immunity the individual calculus vs the government calculus are obviously going to be different.
Mostly I'd suggest worrying less until you actually encounter something. Its hard to tell a new parent that. Encourage them to have more kids after the first one. By the third one they should be less concerned.
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Someone needs to hire Scott to write "20 childhood illnesses The Jews don't want your child protected from." He's pretty good at those, and there's a legitimate hippie-bashing angle you could take to avoid turning people off.
It's unfortunate that 99% of public health writers can't help sneering at their audience.
Jews will not infect us
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