Vaccines work.
OK, there are exceptions. Some batches are botched, some people develop allergies, some viruses mutate so fast that in those cases vaccination isn’t very effective.
But as a principle vaccination works as intended.
Despite all that, some people choose to deny their children the protection offered by vaccines, without any specific reason – such as an allergy or something similar. Just because they have heard that vaccination may cause autism. Or other equivalent baloney. Against advice vehemently pressed by most doctors.
As a consequence, people have re-started to die. After contracting perfectly preventable diseases.
I have a rather ambivalent attitude towards Ayn Rand. I admire her razor sharp mind yet I find her a little too callous for my liking.
But sometimes it’s exactly this combination of traits that helps her pin point the essence of a situation:
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/the-new-measles/384738/
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