Apology Letter To Anti-vaxxers

Dear Anti-Vaxxers,

As a person who is adamantly “pro-vaccine,” I have to apologize to you. I have been an absolute monster on social media and various web forums. I have called you names, ridiculed your beliefs, and have automatically unfollowed you online, so I no longer have to see your anti-vaxxer posts in my Facebook newsfeed. This course of action is simply not productive.

When you wrote online about how you refuse to vaccinate your children because of the mercury in vaccines, I called you dumb. What I should have done is point out that the only vaccine that contains mercury (a component of the preservative thermisol) is the flu vaccine. The mercury found in the flu vaccine is miniscule and has not been shown to cause any harm to anyone. Are you still skeptical? You can ask for a flu shot that does not contain thermisol in it.

When you posted an article to Facebook that claims that vaccines cause autism, I blocked your posts from my newsfeed. I should have pointed out that the infamous study that linked autism to vaccinations has been refuted, over-and-over again, to the point of absurdity. While we are on the topic of autism, I should mention that the increased diagnosis of autism does not necessarily mean that more children (adults too for that matter) are developing autism. The increase is at the very least partly due to how autism is reported.



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