#ALT4you
Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children against deadly childhood diseases. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone.

Forced birthers, the #prolife cults sure love dead babies.

the stupidity from some parents nowadays…

True

I was in an old cemetery in my father’s hometown. Family gravesite: married couple buried some time in the 1950’s. Three small graves dating from 1921 ish — January, February, March. Polio was going through the area that year, among other things.

or just start to explore your own geneology. It is startling what our forefathers and mothers had to cope with.

INFECTIOUS DISEASES KILLED 40-50% OF U.S. CHILDREN 1800-1850
In the first half of the 19th century, between 40% and 50% of children in the U.S. didn’t live past the age of 5.
theconversation.com/infectious…

I cannot understand how people can think that there is not a very heavy price to be paid by themselves and those they love for not becoming informed.

I'm not looking forward to increased rates of preventable death in unvaccinated kids going forward but I am looking forward to volunteering my expert testimony as an epidemiologist for the rest of my goddamned life to punish the stupid fucking assholes that promote anti-vax bullshit. Yup, that will be exceptionally sweet.