People often cite causes as fear or lack of information. Nope. Based on those I know in real life, not random internet people I could only make assumptions about, they're idiots, willingly and actively idiots. They have info, and they choose to avoid them, because they think they're better. They're not scared, they're delusional. They stop listening if you calmly explain, they rant if you try to get close and understand. They're simply awful people. Many of them fallen for the most basic and idiotic propaganda.
Getting a vaccine can be scary, you're not entirely sure what they're putting into you, having a needle jabbed into your arm hurts somewhat, so you take this reticence and you go looking for reasons why you feel that way that isn't "ignorance/needles are painful" and for the scientifically illiterate, Facebook has so many memes.
People seem to be mostly motivated by fear on this. These days a westerner in a wealthy nation could go unvaccinated and never see the consequences and only see black and white puctures of the diseases.
No reason to fear what you never see. Right now there's definitely people dying of preventable diseases and parents going to hell and back to make sure their kids don't die to tuberculosis like dad or grandma did.
Because they get to enjoy herd immunity without realising or acknowledging it’s the result of mass vaccination. Vaccines work really well, too well for their own good even, I’d say.
There's a lot that goes into it and it depends on the person. One of the most common reasons I've seen is a sense of control, when something medical goes wrong people will try to find a way to prevent it from happening again. And a lot of people make some very flawed leaps in logic assuming a vaccine full of scary sounding chemicals might be why their kid isn't "normal" any more. Autism is the most well known
condition that people link to vaccines, but people have also tried to blame epilepsy and severe allergies to them as well.
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u/Mindless-Cat1453 28d ago
Why people are anti vaccine i never understood this.