The side-effects of catching these diseases carry a much higher risk of negative side-effect than the vaccines do, in my opinion, so that’s why we get our baby vaccinated.

Personally — and I don’t mean this in a condescending way, I know it’s up to you, so I hope I’m expressing this properly — but personally, I feel like people fear vaccines because it’s a proactive choice to make. Like, they would rather make the passive no-vaccines choice because then they feel like an (extremely rare) side-effect would be their fault. Yet somehow it wouldn’t be their fault if their kid (far more likely) got sick, went deaf, died, got nerve damage from the flu, whatever.

But a passive choice is still a choice, and ironically they’re choosing to embrace the far greater side-effects of disease.

I don’t know, that’s my impression, particularly when I hear people calling vaccines “poisons.” Just the statistical danger of a vaccine vs. actual diseases, it seems worth it to me for my kid to get her immune system trained as much as possible by vaccines.

Considering my coworker just caught whooping cough — which was supposed to be nearly extinct and is making a comeback due to people choosing not to vaccinate, kids catching it from each other and transmitting to no-longer-immune adults — I’m extra glad my girl is vaccinated. That way even if I catch it, which is pretty likely at this point, she’ll be safe. For a baby her age, pertussis is super-dangerous.