I once saw a car covered in explanations and facts in white marker about why vaccines don't work. I took a photo and sent it to my mother, who has a medical career. She was ROFL at how silly that was. Vaccines save lives, people.

It is worrying about antivaxxers passing down less immunity to future generations. As I understand it, a vaccinated mother will transmit a degree of immunity to an infant,enhanced by breast feeding. An unvaccinated mother and their unvaccinated child is surely a candidate for serious illness for the child. What really makes me laugh (although it isnt funny) is that parents can be so fixated on possible "allergies" peanuts, eggs, dairy etc etc that might potentiallyharm their child, but ignore recommendations for innoculations against killer diseases. There isnt an "Epipen" for measles.

I would much rather get the vaccine and face *potential* danger than not vaccinate and face the absolute reality of polio, smallpox, etc. The diseases aren't non-existent, which I honestly can't believe they claim. We haven't eradicated them. They're simply dormant inside of us because we're protected. You can be a carrier without actually being ill yourself. My father is an antivaxxer now (recently, I had all my shots as a kid) and I couldn't be more embarrassed about it. He's friends with a lady and they feed off each other. Mind you, this woman is... well, I really don't want to bash her, but she's had several miscarriages and her surviving son has Cerebral Palsy. She's constantly blamed a number of different things, doctors, medications and now she's blaiming vaccines. Anything but her own body. I realize that it's a tragic and terrible thing to admit to yourself as a woman, that your body can be unsuited to carrying children. But this is what happens when you live in such denial.

To all the anti-vaxxers out there: The cure is NOT worse than the disease. The summer my mother turned 13 years old, she went to the state fair with her best friend. We have a photograph of the two of them together in a photo booth, hugging each other close and smiling. The very next day, my mother developed a fever and within hours, she was bedridden and could barely breathe. The doctor diagnosed polio and placed her in quarantine. For weeks, her parents fretted whether she would live or die. Meanwhile, her lucky friend remained healthy. Yet another classmate wound up in a wheelchair from the disease, still another died with the same symptoms my mother had. When she recovered, my mother was left with a weak heart, weak lungs, weak diaphragm, weak esophagus. She'd choke on the simplest things, couldn't cough it up. We kids learned the Heimlich maneuver and saved her life a few times. She lived to be 87, but at the end she couldn't swallow anything. So, yes, polio did finally kill her.

My cousin's daughter is vehemently anti-vax, and refuses to even entertain the idea that the Real Science behind vaccinations is a thing. She's convinced they cause autism so not only refuses to have her two children vaccinated, but gets upset when her kids can't do activities, attend certain preschools or be invited to parties because of her decision. She thinks she is protecting her children, but she's actually putting them at greater risk. No use telling her that, though, unless you want your head bitten off. (Fortunately, I've had a tetanus booster in the last ten years, so if she DID bite my head off, I'd be good there... ;) ) Even sadder, though, is a friend who was the head of the nursing department at a local private, highly acclaimed university. She has suddenly lost all her marbles and thinks essential oils cure everything and that vaccines are of the devil. Honestly, I couldn't believe that this otherwise intelligent, clever and reasonable woman had gone so far wrong.

My mom is 80. She was vaccinated only to smallpox. She got whooping cough, measles. Since whooping cough lasts weeks and my aunt was a newborn, my grandma sent my mother with her granny out ouf their home to avoid to spread the pestilence. My father also suffered from whooping cough, diphteria (he remembers some odd tubing in his throat, without any anesthesia), measles. With this disease, he spent a month in a bed and his visus (optic nerve) remained damaged. I know personally people with peripheral plegia and disfiguration, mainly my mothers classmates, after polio. My mothers said in every class there was at least one child with crutch. After vaccination (polio 1961 in our country) disappeared all new cases. But nooooo, vacines do not work. My mother thinks that antivaxxers are some like new cult but nothin to do with brain in head.

Good on that parent and dance school owner and all the other people who have a brain in their heads about vaccinating. Hope when they are adults, those unvaccinated kids who are still alive sue their parents and stick them in s****y nursing homes

I have never actually met an anti vaxxer (i'm in the UK and it's less of a thing here), but if I did, I would give them hell. They're as stupid as the flat earthers but at least the flat earthers aren't harming anyone else.

Do as you like. Vaccinate or don't. But there are consequences to all decisions we make in life. If one of them is negative, be prepared. In my opinion, vaccinate your children. Also in my opinion... if you don't vaccinate your children you should be prepared for social services to intervene and the consequence may be that you are declared incompetent to be their medical guardian.

I wonder how many anti-vaccers have a family pet that has had all its shots? Ohhhhh the irony. Anti-vaccer with vaccinated pet: "but i didn't want Fido to get worms." Also "Get that needle away from my child it'll cause AUTISM!". Ahem*b******t*.

I'm 62, when I was a kid my allergy doc was in an iron lung. Met several people who had varying degrees of disabilities from polio. Many people did end up in iron lungs. That anyone would put their child at risk of a life altering disease is disgusting. There should be legal repercussions for this kind of neglect.

Actually, I think it's high time more is done, perhaps a law, why not people are a walking time bomb !!!

The worst part is innocent children paying for their parents´ bad decisions. If that lady had vaccinated her kid, she wouldn´t got uninvited.

I call for the need for anti-vaccer communities to be brought into play. They can all go live there, un-vaccinated and completely shut off from the outside world. Let's see how long they last. Don't want to vaccinate your kid, go live here next to a family suffering from small pox, diptheria, the mumps, polio, chicken pox and the measles. They're having a welcoming party at 4:00pm, be sure to shake everybody's hand!!

"Remember that time you got polio? No you don't, because your parents got you f*****g vaccinated." One of my favorite Facebook memes.

I ain't elderly nor sick, but I am adamant about vaccinating. Anti-vaxxers are mental people with literally no arguments in favour of their selfish, ignorant and outrageous behaviour. I don't know where their minds are at and cannot comprehend how they can't see that they put their children in harm's way and other people as well. This makes me so ANGRY!

Vaccines save lives.

Anti vaxxers are some of my least favorite people. I despise them.

it's sad because kids has Nothing to do with that. they pay for their stupid parents. it's a shame. i'm so glad my kids didn't have to live that. but Always make me sad for kids

My parents both have cancer and my father has a stoma due to severe diverticulitis. Both of them are in their mid-70s but due to healthy living are still working and look ten years younger. You wouldn't know about their conditions just looking at them. They deal with a certain amount of anti-vax nuttery because they make and sell organic food items at markets and shops that cater to people with alternative ideas about health care. Recently, however, my dad found out that their doctor is anti-vax and brings his unvaccinated kids in to play as he finishes up work in his office (where they get examined, wounds treated, etc.). He's been "with" them for many years, since their cancer diagnoses, but before my dad has surgery in a few months he has decided to change doctors. It's just not worth the possibility of infection. My fiancee has an autoimmune disease that involves a *lot* of exposure for infection. I'm going to make "do you vax" a question for her doctors from now on.

So to get back at a fellow mom for protecting a Cancer patient, you try and screw over her kid. But hey, now you're kid is screwed over. Good job Mother Of The Year. But at least your resisting the "lies" of vaccinating your kid. And isn't that's what is most important? You being so superior to see through the "lies."

Last year, a woman here in England, lost her court battle to not have her children vaccinated after a High Court judge ruled that preventing them from being vaccinated was not in the children’s best interests. The father disagreed and took her to court. She refused to vaccinate because she's a vegan and therefore so are her kids. The other reason being, she wanted her kids bodies to be kept pure and that meant not injecting them with toxins. She couldn't find a doctor to back her up (obviously!) which pretty much sealed the deal. She said doctors don’t criticise vaccines because they’re scared to lose their jobs apparently. She also said her children had amazing immune systems that would fight off all disease. Amazing.

I am not a parent, but are parents told of children who are not vaccinated at their school?

As I read the one with the compromised immune systems and proper hygiene I had to think of someone I know, who didn't use desinfectant in intensive care because it hurt their hands. I mean... sure all right poor hands, but what about the people that person puts at risk? They could die. So the person stupid hands can handle a little pain. But the person never understood how stupid their behavior was.

I agree with Anti-vaxxers! There are too many people on Earth because of modem medicine! We should ban all medications and go back to how our stone age ancestors survived. (Plus take down Google do people don't know what plants and mushrooms are edible and which are not. ..)

I hope "this mother" was furious at herself for forcing people to not invite her daughter to parties.