I have spent more than 15 years doing qualitative studies in Germany for one of my clients, a major British vaccine manufacturer. Over the years, my staff and I have conducted a number of in-depth interviews with paediatricians, among others. Fortunately, the majority of paediatricians are vaccination advocates. They all agree that a big problem is that today's young parents have absolutely no idea how sick and deformed a child can be without vaccination. For many parents, MMR, for example, has become an abstraction, like a formality. Many of them no longer know what life-saving achievements are involved.
But this is the kind of parent who has their children vaccinated.
And then there is this other kind of parent, a significantly smaller but dangerous group. These are anti-vaccination activists. They have no idea what kind of danger they are exposing their children and the kids of others to. They feel confirmed if their children do not fall ill. But they do not want to believe that it will only turn out well with a little luck, because the others around them have their children vaccinated. These vaccination opponents are defiant and incorrigible parasites. I wish them a life in the Middle Ages, so they are welcome to be anti-vaccination campaigners there.
What I am writing here was already valid 10 years and more ago. Today I have the impression that the fronts are hardening even more. It is as if some circles of people are increasingly rejecting science and research. They no longer associate well-being and health and progress with it, but they look at science and research (including medicine) with suspicion and distrust.
And...they believe rat-catchers who pretend to have "alternatives".
Please understand me right , we don't have to be vaccinated against every exotic eventuality of a disease in the Amazon region here. But there should be a common sense of reason that what everyone here should do as part of their collective to be their duty. Unfortunately, I assume that there will also be refusers if vaccination against corona is available. But they are also harming themselves.
