Candace Owens believes that a reasonable parent would prefer that their kids get a vaccine-preventable disease instead of a vaccine.
Do you agree?
Is It Reasonable to Want Your Kids to Get a Vaccine-Preventable Disease?
To be fair, I’m guessing Candace Owens and other parents don’t actually want their kids to get sick with these diseases, especially if they really understood a vaccine insert.
No one who has actually seen or taken care of a child with diphtheria, measles, pertussis, tetanus, meningococcemia or any other vaccine-preventable disease would wish that kind of suffering on their own kids!
Would they?
To be sure, they also certainly don’t want to vaccinate and protect them either.
Can they have it both ways?
They can, like Candace Owens, try to hide in the herd, free-riding and relying on the protection of everyone who is vaccinated around them, but that gamble falls apart as too many people skip or delay their vaccines.
And it’s a gamble that is not worth taking, especially since vaccines truly are safe, with few risks, and they are effective and very necessary.
So why do some parents go this route, leaving their intentionally unvaccinated kids at risk to get sick?
They are making this decision based on the principle of misinformed consent.
They are influenced by bad information, including propaganda that overstates the side effects of vaccines, downplays the risks of vaccine preventable diseases, and makes you think vaccines don’t even work and aren’t necessary.
Don’t regret skipping or delaying your child’s vaccines because you listened to some bad advice from an anti-vaccine influencer.
More on Being a Reasonable Parent
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- Which Part of the Herd Gets Protected by Community Immunity?
- The Moral Responsibility of the Anti-Vaccine Movement
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- The Nuremberg Code specifically addresses experimentation; COVID-19 vaccines aren’t experimental, and therefore, don’t violate the Code
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