For the record, I'm not anti-All vaccine. Mostly, I'm anti COVID vax. But I've started to question many other vaccines and this year I'm bypassing the flu vaccine as well.
While I still think "vaccine causes autism" is a bit of a stretch, I can't help but wonder if my sympathies have fallen on the wrong place.
Things were taken out of context by a pharma funded media. The concern was never "all vaccines cause autism". It was that a particular vaccine given in a particular timeframe caused seizures that produced damage so severe that was later being called autism. Many mothers expressed the exact same story of their child becoming unresponsive immediately following vaccination along with a number of very similar symptoms.
I'm not antivax. I make my decisions by reason. You vaccinate when the risk presented by a disease exceeds the risk inherent in the vaccine. The risk posed by a disease is the risk of catching it multiplied by the expected harm it would cause. I'd never take the flu vaccine because the risk of catching the flu multiplied by how severe the flu is for me is not worth avoiding by intentionally making myself ill.
Things get difficult when the risk of vaccination is not clear. You tend to assume the worst for good reason. When it's clear the voice of pharma is actively lying to us you definitely assume the worst.