I'm usually a live and let live kind of person, but today I encountered a woman who was vehemently, vocally anti-vaccine for her child. What was worse, she trying to dissuade other mothers from getting vaccines for their babies as well.
I should've known better than to try to argue with her, but I did because I really felt horribly for any child who contracts what could've been a completely preventable illness. We live in a time and place where people don't remember how awful it is to watch your child waste away from whooping cough or see their limbs shrivel from polio. They just worry about "injecting chemicals" into their babies' bodies. As if their babies don't get several times those chemicals just from breathing. As if they could somehow be healthier if they were left vulnerable to a disease. As if we haven't already seen outbreaks of measles and mumps from unvaccinated communities.
Unfortunately, none of my logic worked. She still wasn't going to vaccinate her child.
[Harry]Help me. I think I accidentally gave measles to a baby.
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