But what really irks me is the fact that this was never what we signed up for. Contrary to provax misinformation, people weren't begging for a measles vax; they had to be wooed into vaxing their kids for measles, with a promise of "Just let us give your kid this one shot, and by the end of the summer, the whole vaccination thing will be over". People who had HAD measles themselves and seen all their siblings get it and all their friends get it had to be persuaded to vax their kids with false promises.
Measles is relatively deadly compared to some modern "VPDs", but the vax is not "a victim of it's own success". That is a total lie.
I really wonder what people would have thought in the 60's if they were handed the info we know now, and asked to make a decision about if this was something they really wanted to do.
Just like if parents in the mid 90's were told "Ok, we're going to give your kid a chickenpox shot, but you're going to have to give another dose, and probable another one later because vax immunity is short lived, and vaxing all these kids will make older kids more likely to catch CP and get sicker because they're older, and be at an increased risk of complications and death, and then we're going to give all the older adults Zostavax, because vaxing the kids will make adults have shingles more often, which can also result in extreme pain and sometimes death."
How many people would think this was a great idea and give informed consent to vax for that scenario?
