H/T WND. The American Academy of Pediatrics is apparently endorsing the end of conscientious objections to childhood vaccinations, apparently forgetting that in the past five years, multiple vaccines have been found to pose serious dangers to a portion of those taking them--for example, the link between COVID vaccines and myocarditis. One would think that failures like this would impart a bit of humility at the AAP, but apparently not.
Really, this has been my complaint with public health officials and vaccine advocates for over a quarter century; it never seems that they simply present the benefits and risks, and let us make our own decisions. Rather, it's generally been "do this or you're stupid", followed by attempts to make them mandatory, even when the vaccines are new and relatively unproven.
All too often, our public health authorities seem to be their own worst enemies. You've got this, you've got the push for pediatric transgender interventions (leading to a LOT of permanently mutilated young people), and finally we had the disastrous public health approach to COVID that did things like put COVID patients into nursing homes--the most vulnerable place in the world. Hopefully public health officials and the AAP learn their lesson and start actually working from data and evidence before their credibility is completely squandered.
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I think that ship has sailed. I know a lot of adults (myself included) who are struggling with vax after the COVID fiasco. It was just one in a series of mishandling - do you remember the HPV vax that they made mandatory in TX of all places?
I was bringing up daughters when Gardasil came out, and while all of them have gotten it, we waited about 5-10 years while the data came in that go beyond the FDA approval stage. And it might not even be helpful to them, because I'm pretty sure the three that are married were virgins marrying virgins. A lot harder to get HPV if you're not sleeping around.
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