Anti-Vaxxer Sympathy

[Aractus]

lol, what criteria do you suggest, if not rationality?

It's one valid option but it's not the only one. You can't just go around labelling people who have a different view of what healthcare means to them as wrong. Some people view health as an individualistic thing, others view it as a community centric concept. What seems rational in one view would not seem rational in the other.

I've already repeatedly stated what some of the other criteria that is meaningful to people is. Feeling their concerns are being listened to. Whether it addresses something that is important to that person for their health. It depends a lot on where a person's values lie.

There is a huge difference between curative and preventative health measures as well. Some people view curative measures as being more important - others see the value of preventative medical services as being more important.

It's very difficult to get action on any preventative measures when compared with curative ones. What you're discussing in this thread of course is a preventative health service - and you are acting as if people view that preventative measures as being as important as curative ones - which is absolute rubbish. Take breast cancer screening for example.

In Australia in 2010-2011 the participation rate of at-risk women in breast cancer screening was 55%. Yet the rate of immunisation is over 93% (and we know that a portion of the final 7% is because children were unable to be immunised as well as patients slipping through the net, inadequate access to the service, and parents who don't understand the need). Yet 45% of women don't participate in breast cancer screening ... so as I was saying you should be very happy with the rate of participation in childhood vaccination when you compare it to other preventative health health measures that are nowhere near the participation rate that it has achieved.