ahrucool wrote:

"Among my friends, family, and acquaintances there are many who have been helped by medicine, and many who have been hurt. "

But not by vaccinations. Not one person in a million is hurt by these. If you had lived before vaccinations were invented, you would have known many people who died young or were disabled for life by diseases that are now prevented. Not giving your children immunity to these horrible diseases is insane, and tantamount to child abuse.

Vaccinations and other public measures such as sewers have saved millions of lives and improved everyone's health and welfare. People like you have no idea how beneficial these things are because, frankly, you have no knowledge of history or statistics and you have not lived in places where they have no vaccinations or sewers, which are hellish in ways you cannot begin to imagine.