Talk:Faunus/@comment-95.176.177.91-20150930225153/@comment-4010415-20151001013202

Anti-vaxxers may be a minority, but they still exist, and their actions are still dangerous, not just for themselves and their children, but also for infants and people with compromised immune systems, such as cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.

Those of us who have normal, functioning immune systems that can handle vaccines have a responsibility to help protect people who have compromised immune systems and the people who are too young to receive certain vaccines yet. By being vaccinated, we severely limit the spread of dangeous diseases, thus making it easier for the immuno-compromised to avoid such diseases.

Anti-vaxxers decide not to get their children measles vaccines. There are enough of these people that it has actually caused a significant rise in the spread and infection rate of measles. The human race has been trying to eradicate measles because, in some cases, it can lead to pneumonia, deafness, blindness, brain damage, and death. Anti-vaxxers ignore this and apparently feel that the risk to their child's health and life, as well as the health and lives of others, is worth their child not being autistic. Then, they get angry when schools tell them their child isn't allowed on campus until they get the vaccine.

They may be the minority, but there are still too many of them.