Being forced to educate your child does not as far as I am aware have the potential to physically or mentally harm your child. You may also educate your own child and if you choose that option and still have concerns about their physical or mental health then I would suggest there are probably bigger issues at play.
Again being forced to not physically harm a child is a zero sum game of harm vs no harm.
Vaccinations by the manufacturers own admission have the potential to cause harm. There is the potential for harm to come to someone by not vaccinating. However, the risk vs reward is different for each individual. Our physician completely agreed that giving our youngest a chicken pox vaccine would be unwise after he older brother had a severe (we went to hospital in an ambulance) reaction to his vaccine. It was unlikely (given family history) that she would suffer adverse effects from the virus itâs self, and a greater than average chance she would given her brothers reaction.
All Bryan is saying is that we are all individuals, each vaccine is different. It doesnât make sense to treat vaccines or us with a blanket approach.
âI trust experts who, in general consensusâ
Ok so this is part of the problem. There are âexpertsâ who sit on both sides of the fence and a lot that hang out in the middle. Itâs all down to who YOU trust.
My next door neighbor happens to be an immunologist who works with a research team at Adelaide Uni to develop vaccines that donât have the protein identification issues.
Now heâs not my childâs GP and he would never make a recommendation to me personally. I know the guy quite well, and when I ask him, hey have your daughters had vaccination xyz. His answer (which is not the same for every vaccine) holds a bit more weight than my GP whoâs really only read what the medical association has recommended. Which may or may not be what the pharma companies have recommended.
Also making recommendations for a populace is different to recommendations for an individual. I agree that most people should get vaccinated for a lot of the diseases. But I know absolutely nothing about your child, your family history. Imagine I said âexperts agree that avocados are a wonderful food and everyone should be forced to eat an avocadoâ. You might be allergic to avocados (yes thatâs a thing), you could have FHS in which case an avocado a day could cause significant issues down the trackâŚetcâŚ
Recommendations are recommendations for a reason. They apply broadly and state that as a whole we (the policy makers) agree this is a good idea for the populace based on the data they had at the time the policy was put in place. Policy does not always equal correctness and certainly says nothing about an individual. Much of our medical recommendations date back to the 1970s. SSRIâs have barely changed since the 1960s when they were about as effective as they are todayâŚwhich is to say not.
Getting side tracked but I think you get the idea.