There has
recently been a public crisis outbreak on diseases that could easily have been
prevented by a vaccine readily available to the public. There are many parents
of children who are against vaccines and choose to opt out. This has led to a
health crisis that could potentially grow into a national crisis.
As Frank
mentions in his article, anti-vaxxers are not engaged in debates and mostly in
the shadows. This article was written to persuade the readers that vaccine
resistance is due to people not being informed and the effect social media has
on others.
People “are abandoning
traditional sources of information, from the government to the institutional
media, in favor of a D.I.Y. approach to fact-finding.” Wrote Jonathan Mahler. I
strongly agree with both of the authors viewpoints of the fact that the
internet is filled with false misleading information that changes the people
perception of things.
The author gave us several
points to inform us why anti-vaxxers choose not to vaccinate, and some powerful
people who have done it, regret it at a later time. In the end whether or not
to vaccine is a person decision, but when you put others at risk that is
something that should not be accepted. This leads me to wonder if the
government has a right to step in and force us to vaccinate.
