Will anyone thank you for knowing better than to vaccinate?

[Guest guest]

I was at a shop with the twins and ran into a woman with a five year

old boy who had the same rare name as our son. The two boys looked

alike as well. But as soon as she realized that my son couldn't speak

fluently, she looked appalled and couldn't get away fast enough. Her

upper lip crinkled in distaste. Maybe she had a sudden attack of gas

but it appeared to be just typical distanciation. Can't have her boy

associated by name or anything else with a " defective " .

As she walked off with her hip peruvian hat and her long-haired hippy

boy, I wondered if she was hip enough to avoid vaccinations. Seemed

like the type. I wondered whether, if this was so (theoretically), if

she knew WHY and how she might have the information to know better in

the first place, because this information only exists because it was

built on the bodies of injured children who came before. Of course

there's always just the traditional homeopathic avoidance of vaxes for

some or Christian Science traditions, but most who avoid the vaccines

do so because they know something could go wrong. Do the people who

decided to avoid vaxes for their children sometimes have hubris towards

families with injured children, like " Tsk, we knew better, why didn't

you? "

I for one want to say thanks myself because we would have had no clue

of what had happened to our kids or what to do about it or to stop

vaccinating if it hadn't been for the people who sweat blood into the

movement before us. Sorry if that sounds hokey but I'm sincere.