There seems to be so many misconceptions regarding childhood vaccinations: misconceptions on how vaccinations actually work, on how herd immunity actually works, on weather the diseases we vaccinate against are really all that dangerous. The misconceptions are rampant, and so is the sheer ignorance.

My main question to all those with homed grown theories on why vaccinations are bad, unnecessary or don’t work: are you an epidemiologist or immunologist or even a medical professional of any kind? How much time have you spent researching disease and vaccinations (and I mean for real, not my reading dumb as blogs) What amount of time have you actually spent in labs? With patients? Honestly, do you even know your viruses from you bacteria? No? So why the fuck do you presume to know more than those good people who devote their lives to studying, learning, developing vaccines to save our sorry lives? Why the hell do you not realize that the only reason we are all here, alive and well , is because diseases have been eradicated or controlled due to all the major advances made by real researchers, not at home fanatics.

Think about it? Why would you take a stand against all the combined knowledge of people who have studied this shit or years, experts from all over the world, from all religions, from all political fields who agree on this? Do you say the same to your mechanics? Nah, I don’t need your expertise, I will just listen  to some crackpots online and fix my own damn car brakes. Or your electrician, I will just rewire my own house and if I electrocute my kids so be it. Or would you fly your own god damn jumbo jet, after all how hard can it be, there must a manual online somewhere?  You wouldn’t do that , now would you? So why, oh why, would you assume that you know well enough to decide whether vaccinations work or not, are safe or not, save lives or not.

And don’t even get me started on the abhorrent, uncivilized, selfishness of antivaxxers

Let me assure you the human body is a hell of  alot more complicated than either of those examples, yet for some crackpot reason mommies and daddies around the world think they have singlehandedly cracked the code and just know (read: belive in their silly little hearts) that they know better than those who actually have studied the area.

Take a look at this Pen and Teller short video. It really is that simple.