Reply #10: All medicine is risk versus benefit

[Warpy]

If you know the consequences of those childhood diseases, you get the kid vaccinated.

Measles can kill. There's a little item called measles encephalitis. One of my friends died from it when I was seven. I was in a coma from it for a week.

Whooping cough can kill, and it takes the average toddler two years to recover from it.

The consequences of polio are horrific. Even when kids recover from it, they get something painful and disabling called post polio syndrome later in life.

Trusting that the minimal risk that sensible parents assume when they get their kids vaccinated will protect your kids is selfish, short sighted and stupid.