Thats my take too just based on talking to my grandparents vs anti-vax friends.
The anti-vaxxers just have never experienced the direct impact of a crippling but now easily preventable disease and what life was like before modern vaccines.
However they are looking to blame something for an autism spectrum kid ignoring the obvious which increased and broader diagnosis along with having kids older than previous generations.
No one wants to blame themselves understandably, so vaccines are a good scapegoat and not getting them is less risky now days due to the diseases being nearly eliminated so it all works until these old diseases come back, which they have.
Interesting. The vaccines got us to a world where it's rare that bad things happen - to the point that we kind of think that nothing bad should ever happen. But when something bad happens (autism), they blame the thing that got us to the point where bad things are as rare as they are.
The anti-vaxxers just have never experienced the direct impact of a crippling but now easily preventable disease and what life was like before modern vaccines.
However they are looking to blame something for an autism spectrum kid ignoring the obvious which increased and broader diagnosis along with having kids older than previous generations.
No one wants to blame themselves understandably, so vaccines are a good scapegoat and not getting them is less risky now days due to the diseases being nearly eliminated so it all works until these old diseases come back, which they have.