On a personal level I know plenty of children (including my own) who have never been vaccinated and are healthy, thriving and not havens for disease.
And your children are protected by other parent's vaccinating their children. As someone above pointed out, go to a 3rd world country. People in the US, by and large, are immune from the horrors that exist when vaccinations aren't readily available to everyone. My vaccinating my children also protects your children, and I'm happy that I can do that for your children, even if you never thank me.
Heres the thing. If you believe vaccines cause autism your diet better be on point, you exercise regularly, you minimize screen time and if you want to go really crazy you test your home for mold, don't use WIFI due to the EMFs, buy organic, test new couches, cars and mattresses for flame ******ants. I mean. Im not saying this is an all or nothing game. I just find it very convenient that people are willing to say no to something one a year to their MD (easy) but aren't willing to make the same changes (or spend the money) on thing that can effect their health on a daily basis (hard).
Oh, many of them do go out for all this. And more, dangerously more. I've had enough children and been involved enough in parenting communities to know there are a lot more of these fringe livers than you would imagine. I've heard stories both in real life and on-line. Horrific stories, babies dying or ending up with brain damage because their parents refuse to get them real medical treatment, instead wanting "alternative" treatments. And parents themselves dying for the same reason.
People here in the US can afford to waste their time and money on nonsense,because they are completely immune to the reality of life before modern medicine. The Babies documentary really points this out (in the discussion with the parents at the end), it follows the pregnancy and births of 4 women in 4 different countries/cultures. The African parents were very excited to be able to participate in the movie, because they movie producers arranged for them to give birth in a hospital with an actual doctor--that was their main reason for wanting to be in the movie. It was like their 8th or 9th baby, all of the previous ones born at home, and they wanted nothing more than the safety of their current child to be born in a hospital.
On the other hand, the US couple wanted a home birth with a midwife (they ended up taking the baby to a hospital because of breathing issues, then the parents acted like it really wasn't needed anyway)--they wanted to be in the movie for fun and multiculturalism.
The African parents recognized the very real dangers of giving birth without medical attendance, undoubtedly they had seen many babies and mother's die. They recognized the great value in having trained medical professionals at a childbirth.
On the other hand, the US parents hadn't seen babies and mother's die, so they wrongly assume that is because childbirth is "safe" and "natural" and medical attendants completely unnecessary and even dangerous. So they don't recognize the very real value of medical attendants, so they purposely gave home at birth, then when their baby was having problems and they (wisely) took it to the hospital, they downplayed the whole thing as "unnecessary." If their baby had died at home during the birth (as happens at far higher rate than hospital births), they would have consoled themselves with "well, babies die in the hospitals too." Seriously, that is the garbage people who've lost children due to their own poor choices say --and they expound that garbage to gullible people all over the internet.
Pharmacists don't see these people, because they don't go to pharmacies (unless it's to buy herbals and homeopathy), and they certainly don't go to hospitals. But go to a parenting group, and you will see these wackos. Wackos who don't believe in antibiotics, even if their child has meningitis (they will go to a chiropractor instead!), wackos who believe in home births irregardless of how many risk factors they have (not that they would know, because they believe ultrasounds and doctors and even CNM's are "dangerous"), wackos who think people who eat organic are sell-outs because they are are raw vegan's, wackos who won't let their children have toys of any kind (they can only play with things found in nature, rocks, sticks, etc.), I could go on and on and on. Believe me, everything you listed and above, there are ALOT of parents living lives just like that in your local community.
Except for the wi-fi....while many of them won't let their children near wi-fi, most of them have no problem with wi-fi for themselves.
