I regard them having a supreme sense of entitlement, that only their choices matter. The risk they run is only low when pretty much everyone else is vaccinated. To avoid a negligible risk from a vaccine they are willing to put thousands at risk. This does not include children and adults who are fragile from other health issues and vaccination would have an identifiable medical risk.
In our privileged society epidemics are fortunately rare yet one only needs to look at the toll of common illnesses in poor countries where vaccination programs are far from universal. One can even look at the pain and suffering in our own countries before vaccination became commonplace. Polio killed thousands and permanently handicapped thousand more, smallpox killed millions. Cholera, typhus, tetanus, and influenza all have recorded mass deaths and still do where decent health care is unavailable or unaffordable.
The pain and suffering of millions was why vaccines were developed in the first place, the lives saved total well into the millions, yet a certain group of people think they matter more than anyone else. In so doing they create areas where these diseases can once again become epidemic putting others at risk of sickness, disability and death. This is unconscionable selfishness. Ebola scared the crap out of many because there is no vaccine, imagine if smallpox had not been virtually eradicated because a vaccine had never been invented.
These people have obviously never been in a region during a major epidemic, never have suffered the poverty and unclean water sources where many diseases breed. They have not experienced the stench of death, the cries of suffering nor have they mourned the death of their village. They have no concept of the suffering when you do not have the means to access proper health care.
I am desperately trying not to plumb the depths of my true feeling so as to avoid writing words that I would only regret. let them come to a medical tent in a cholera outbreak, then explain to me how risky vaccines are, goddamn the bloody lot of them. Let them hold the children dying of starvation and dehydration because their tiny bodies can no longer support the intake of solids and liquids. Then fucking explain to me about the dangers of vaccines. Irresponsibly endangering the lives of others, then demand that I respect their choice? Fuck that.
Then some egocentric prick like Bill Maher jumps on this bandwagon of endangerment, it really makes me want to spit.
You want to know how I feel?
I don't think you would like it much.
I have a picture of putrid fluids seeping out of a child's mouth every time I hear an antivaxer spew their dangerous untruths. I hear the sound of their mothers weeping when they die.
Do you like that picture?
That's enough, now I'm getting really upset.