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Ok, most of the vaccines on the schedule have some sort of justification for them that isn’t ‘we assume your wife and/or child are prostitutes/drug users’. It’s not necessarily a good reason, but it is there. Like the HPV vaccine for middle schoolers- turns out it’s possible to get it by sharing locker rooms/towels with an infected person, even if it’s not the usual way. It’s not because the CDC thinks your eleven year old is having sex. Like yes, you’ll probably be fine skipping it. But safetyism and probably lobbying from the manufacturer is the reason it’s recommended.
I don’t know what vaccines are pretty safe to skip, other than polio(which doesn’t exist in the USA) but it’s obviously some of them.
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