Buying into and promoting vaccine conspiracies does nothing but lower vaccination rates, which weakens herd immunity and leads to needless deaths. These deaths are the cost of putting someone like RFK Jr. in charge of HHS.
Spreading out vaccines over multiple visits causes kids to miss vaccines because of missed appointments, delays overall immunity, and increases the chance of adverse effects. Japan tried this in 1993 and broke up the MMR vaccine into multiple shots. It led to mumps outbreaks in 2001, 2005, 2010, and 2015. They changed the schedule back in 2020 and haven’t had another outbreak as a result.
Some people will have adverse effects from any vaccine. That’s math, and it’s unfortunate. Some people also have a peanut allergy. Should we remove peanuts entirely from the food chain? The benefits to society from vaccines as a whole outweigh any negatives they cause. Some of the rise in ADHD and autism rates is due to better methods of identification. They have never been linked to vaccines at any point through any research. There may very well be something causing those rates to rise, but it’s not vaccines.
I sit on the board of a museum, and it has an iron lung in storage that somebody donated years ago. A person lived in it for 30 years before dying from the effects of polio. I wish it were on display in the lobby so people could remember what life was like before vaccines eliminated the worst of the diseases that plagued us. It’s sad that arguably some of the greatest inventions in human history are now so demonized by fools and grifters.
