Over 100 children at the school are susceptible to virus.

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    10 months ago

    It isn’t just the USA. There are anti-vaxxers all over the world.

    But you are seeing a transition from a relatively stable and prosperous time to one less so and people are freaking out as to why. One of the seen solutions is to reject modernity and embrace tradition.

    You also have a lot of mothers who have hinged their entire self worth on being good mothers. They’ve been sold an idea that vaccines cause autism and there hasn’t been an outbreak of these diseases within their lifetime, so they don’t understand the benefits in this cost-benefit scenario.

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        10 months ago

        This is more as an attempt to understand how they got there, possibly to prevent that from happening in the future.