[sys13]

This is a step back for science in the service of public health - I'm sad for the many children that will die needless deaths

[hiccuphippo]

Maybe the lack of deaths is what raises this anti-vaccine ideology.

Where I come from, whenever 2 old women meet, I noticed they always ask how many children they had. And the response is always a variation of: 6 children, 4 alive, 2 dead.

Child mortality is still present in their minds. This is inconceivable to me but my generation still listens to the stories. The future generations are not gonna listen to these stories, the US is probably already in such a future.

[M95D]

Just look at this as a step forward for natural selection. Anti-vaxers will remove themselves from the gene pool.

[calgaryeng]

You are apt to be wrong.

[rblatz]

It's amazing that within a single person's lifetime we can completely as a society forget how horrible these diseases were, and why vaccination was so popular and transformative around the world. Truly a victim of their own success.

[triceratops]

Are vaccines like a high-profit margin item or something? I thought that honor went to cholesterol or obesity or depression medicine.

[_aavaa_]

I hear from people who in the same breath then tell me the benefits of the natural chemical-free supplements they're taking, as if the supplement industry doesn't exist.

[drekk]

The pharmaceutical industry cannot make money off of you if you die of measles as an infant.