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> You can ask anyone advocating for vaccinations and they will tell you that yes, vaccines can have side effects and people can have adverse reactions.

This isn’t my experience. Most people I know refer to people who do not vaccinate their kids as “antivax wackos” because they (my friends) believe that vaccines are almost 100% effective and 100% harmless. If they thought there were side effects or adverse reactions they couldn’t paint all people who don’t vaccinate with the “wacko” brush.

I’m glad to hear that you have encountered people who are more enlightened, but I wanted to point out that this is not everyone’s experience.

Note: I have vaccinated my kids and I regularly get the flu shot. I live in Silicon Valley, for context of where I’m encountering the folks I described.

EDIT: can you explain why you’re downvoting this? Do you doubt that this is my experience, find it irrelevant, or something else?



Looks like the dead reply to my comment proved my point!




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