Mentality of Anti-Vaxxers

   In this time of age, we have vaccines to prevent people with infections or prevent them to be seriously ill. Unfortunately, there are people who don't permit vaccines for themselves or their children because of their beliefs.

   There is an article called What Psychologists Say About Anti-Vaxxers: They're Raging Narcissists by psychologist Jean Twenge. She believes that people who don't allow vaccines for their children are narcissists. She says that culture was very different. Individualism wasn't very strong back when the Measles vaccine was around starting in the early 1960's. Point 1 of 4 is that narcissists think some rules don't apply to them, so they do whatever they wish as long as it doesn't affect themselves. They don't want their kids getting vaccines because they believe that their kid is special. Therefore, they don't need one. Point 2 of 4 is that they don't have any empathy. There are people who can't be vaccinated due to compromised immune systems. To prevent getting diseases, other people must be vaccinated to protect the people who can't get vaccines. But it doesn't matter if someone's kid died from infection. It didn't happen to my kid. Point 3 of 4 is that they think they know everything. Unless if they tested the vaccine themselves, why believe anyone else. I know why, they think everyone around them is an idiot. People now don't trust anyone anymore because they think they are evil, stupid, or both. Point 4 of 4 is that they get overconfident. They don't believe that anything will happen to them until it actually does. But that is the mentality of narcissists.

  It's a shame that we have people that endanger their kids because of their own ignorant beliefs. There will be many outbreaks in the future that shouldn't happen because of peoples' incompetence to vaccinate themselves and their children.

Why You Should Vaccinate

     What should you consider when you decide to vaccinate your kids? To make sure that you want to vaccinate your kid, you must do some research to see if your kid is able to get the vaccine.

      There are reasons why parents give their kids is because it's to keep themselves healthy. An important reason is to make sure that they don't get any diseases that are easily preventable. Surprisingly, there is only a small percentage of parents that don't vaccinate their children. According to an article on immunizeforgood.com/why-vaccinate/introduction, there is six percent of Colorado students are able to go to school whose parents do not allow vaccines for their children. There are some cases that some children can't be vaccinated due to compromised immune systems. In that case, there isn't too much to do with some children's health.

      People sometimes don't think of the flu as a illness because people can recover easily. We live in a world where we have vaccines for nearly everything. Unfortunately, there were five children who died in the 2012-2013 flu season. People can't be vaccinated because of their age. People can be too young or too old to get vaccines.

     We are very grateful that we live in a world where we can be vaccinated easily. Since we have vaccines, we don't have to worry all the time of being infected with something deadly.