Question

It seems vaccines are forced on us. Why do the Amish rarely have autism, diabetes, heart disease, etc.?

Community Answer

Many of the Amish do vaccinate their children to protect them against devastating diseases like polio, whooping cough, and mumps. Autism rates are reported lower in Amish populations because Amish children are less likely to get diagnostic resources (and thus autistic Amish people may go undiagnosed), and the Amish have less genetic diversity (which may lower rates of autism because autism is mostly or completely genetic). While it may not feel like it, people who want you to vaccinate are genuinely concerned about your, your family's, and the world's well-being. They don't want to see you sobbing in panic as you watch your baby with whooping cough fight for every breath until her face goes blue. They don't want their son with cancer rushed to the emergency room because he contracted measles from playing with your unvaccinated boy at the park. They don't your daughter to spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair because she contracted polio, and now could die any day from post-polio syndrome. The link between vaccines and autism has been disproven many times, but even if it were real... an autistic child is much, much better than a dead one. Protecting your children means making difficult decisions, even if you don't like them.