The only people who can afford to be blasé, sanguine even, about vaccinations are middle-class people who live in areas where just about everyone else is vaccinated so there isn't a large enough pool of unvaccinated people to sustain an epidemic of a disease. Even if their child gets it, they can afford the best of medical care and neither measles nor chickenpox are major killers among this demographic. If they were from a poorer part of the world where there was little if any medical care, drug

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The only people who can afford to be blasé, sanguine even, about vaccinations are middle-class people who live in areas where just about everyone else is vaccinated so there isn't a large enough pool of unvaccinated people to sustain an epidemic of a disease. Even if their child gets it, they can afford the best of medical care and neither measles nor chickenpox are major killers among this demographic. If they were from a poorer part of the world where there was little if any medical care, drugs, or even clean water, then the outcome for their children would not necessarily be an optimistic one.Should these vaccination nay-sayers live in an area ofsocially irresponsible people who have all gone for the idea of not vaccinating their kids, then what you get is an outbreak like in a very small area of Wales in 2013 where over a space of 6 months 1,219 children suffered, and a man died. Why would you put your kid through that kind of pain, itchiness, sore eyes, feeling worse than the worst kind of flu? Why would you do that?Because if you vaccinate your children they will become autistic or something else that is an urban legend that just won't die despite endless publicity, court cases and proof. Not that proof, or facts of any kind, have ever got in the way of a good conspiracy theory. And that's what it comes down to. The pernicious Andrew Wakefield, a disgraced former doctor who was struck off the medical register for damning the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccination and linking it to autism because a) he was paid to do this research to prove this and b) he wanted to launch his own vaccination, which would have made him very wealthy.But it won't die, his faked research, to some people it is a proven fact that vaccinations cause autism and despite all evidence to the contrary is true, just as David Icke believes that giant lizards rule the world (view spoiler) and Scientologists think aliens arrived on earth 75 billion years ago in exact duplicates of B-58 bombers. If people want to believe they are going to... But these beliefs do not harm people and not vaccinating children is child abuse, it is harming them.I had measles, mumps and chicken pox when I was young. They were all awful. My brother and I always had them together. Our bedrooms were at opposite ends of the house, upstairs, connected by a not very long winding corridor. My mother would sit on a chair in the middle belting out stories at the top of her voice so we could both hear her. I remember the utter misery, pain, fever and terrible itching with the measles, I wouldn't subject a kid to that.Evil book. Misguided author. 1 star, and not a golden, shiny one, but an inflamed red, leaking pus and pimply one for her.