Vaccines. Again.

I started out believing that vaccines are not totally evil.  They're not that bad. They have helped saved lives.  I started Tristan on a delayed schedule after getting advice from someone with a degree in immunology, that has created vaccines himself, and understands their purpose better than any idiot in medical school or pediatrician I have met.  I started Summer on a delayed vaccine schedule.   I don't believe that vaccines are pure evil, but I am convinced that they are not the saving grace that people make them out to be.  Tristan has most of his vaccines.  Summer has a couple.  I might continue their vaccines when they're older, but definitely not before the age of 2.  Story after story of kids being hurt by vaccines keep enforcing my choice. Which of course, infuriates some people.  Every "pro vaccine" person I know has the same argument.  That not vaccinating your kid hurts their vaccinated kid, that vaccines are the only reason we no longer have small pox, blah blah blah. You can watch Jimmy Kimmel's 5 minute video directed at people who do not vaccinate and get every single argument they have.  The best part of the video is that he has doctors telling you to fu$$ing vaccinate your child so they can get back to watching Breaking Bad.   There are so many things that irritate me about this video, but first and foremost it's the arrogant attitude of the doctors.  "We went to school for 8 years!"  "We are smarter than you."  "Trust us." I do NOT fully trust any pediatrician I have met.  I Google before I go in to the doctor what I think my child has, and ask them detailed questions so I can make sure I know what we are dealing with.  I have had half of the pediatricians pull their phones out to Google some of my questions.  No joke.  Confidence lost.  Glad you went to med school for 8 years to learn how to Google.  Pretty much I just need your signature to get a prescription... which you'll have to Google to tell me how to use. Second, it's the fact they're leaving out 90% of the story in Jimmy Kimmels video.  Here are some basic facts that you can Google yourself, and then find either on a trusted website (like CDC, or in a medical journal):

• 2 people in the last 30 years have died from the measles in the United States. 140 children have died from the MMR vaccine.
• Measles was almost gone in the 1950's.  This is attributed to proper hygiene.  The vaccine came out in 1963.
• There is a vaccine court where people who's children have been killed or injured by vaccines can sue. Millions of dollars have been awarded. ... because vaccines hurt people.
• Before the 1950's, children got less than 10 shots for their vaccine schedule.  Autism didn't really exist.  In 2014, children get 49 shots, and autism is found in 1/68 kids.  As the shots increased, so did the rise of autism.  Is that because they're "better at diagnosing?"  I don't know.  But those numbers sure are curious.
• The flu vaccine that is pushed so crazy hard on the public is the number one vaccine drug into vaccine court due to injuries.  Oh, and it also wasn't effective this year.  Oh, and if you get the shot, you most likely are going to get the flu for a few days anyway.. not sure how that's preventing you from anything... 
• Most people who do not vaccinate their children are wealthy and educated. 
• 90% of the people who got whooping cough had their vaccines.  Wait, what?  So you're saying that 9 out of 10 people who contracted the whooping cough had received a vaccine for it?  Including more than the recommended 5 doses.
• Women who get the Dtap vaccine while pregnant (as recommended) are more likely to contract some crazy infection that I can't spell without googling, and causing their babies to die.  So wait, you're vaccinating them against whooping cough, but in turn giving them another infection that makes their babies die more often than a baby dies from whooping cough? Where is the logic? 
• SIDS is associated with the Dtap vaccine you give your infant.  It says so on the warning label.
• My nieces and nephews got the chicken pox vaccine.  Then they all got the chicken pox anyway.  Thank you, vaccines, for doing... nothing.... 
• Most adults have not received their vaccine boosters, which are required to make the vaccine effective.  
• Doctors kill patients all the time.  Its why they have to carry malpractice insurance, because there is a chance that they're not as smart as they think they are they're going to screw up.  

So those are all facts.  That information comes from the CDC and pro vaccine websites.  And you're telling me to trust my doctor who is pushing that shit on my kids and me?  Because they went to school for 8 years?  Yeah, no thanks.  Take your arrogant attitude and shove it... because if something DOES go wrong with my child after a vaccine, you're going to immediately disregard anything that might connect it to the vaccine.  And by doing that you're telling me I do not know my child, and that you are not truly dedicated to medicine and to the truth. If there is one thing I have learned from that video is that any idiot can become a doctor and parrot what the government and pharmaceutical companies want them to.  I doubt they teach more than 2 minutes on the adverse reactions to vaccines. What really bothers me is that the next step to this argument is, "More kids benefit from vaccines than are hurt."  So I am supposed to put my kid on the sacrificial vaccine table and take the chance that everything will be OK with them, for the greater good?  Or how about you do some research, prove that a vaccine is safe AND EFFECTIVE, and then we'll talk.