10 Reasons that might not be good enough for parents to stop vaccinating

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See, that's the problem. Mainstream society accepts (and often refuses to challenge) that vaccinations are full protection from the illnesses that they were made to prevent. That's why more should be done to fully inform parents and give them something to consider before they get it done. Never was I given any information that said that vaccines were only x% effective when I dutifully lined up to have my eldest children done. Maybe it is in society's best interest to have most people vaccinated despite the failure rate, but that still comes back the parents making informed consent. If I had of known then what I know now, I wouldn't have rushed in like I did. Even though my eldest children are vaccinated, it is still a concern to me that they could still end up with measles or chicken pox or whooping cough.

Thats fair, but ironically if less people get vaccinated because the vaccines aren't 100% effective then they become even less effective because herd immunity is compromised.

Vaccines work on the principle that if you immunise enough people then the germ dissapears, even if the vaccine is only reasonably effective.