I am also pro vaccine. I find it odd that so many children are not getting the MMR vaccine. There is a lot of ill informed rubbish out there, often on social media, of the SMALL ( and I mean SMALL) number of side effects. They are statistically very small. However, as with the Chinese Whispers effect, this escalates by putting fear into the minds of parents who don’t think about the extremely low risk. A lot of people expect a perfect zero risk. They are prepared to go for holidays by plane, drive long distances, drink, smoke, eat a poor diet each of which carry higher risk levels. The same with face masks. They are not perfect but do help with some reduction of spread as part of the rule of 3....mask, distance, wash hands. So many argue that masks are a waste of time due to not being a perfect barrier.
The big problem facing us is the number of people who have this attitude of deniability, invincibility, desire to do what they want....the ass effect.
