Anti-Vaxxer Sympathy

[Mermaid]

What does "too strong" even mean? Have you ever taken immunology? vaccinology? Do you understand how vaccines work? What exactly is problematic about the MMR vaccine? You can't take ANY vaccine when you're sick or otherwise immunocompromised. There's a very good biological reason for this, and it is most definitely not specific to MMR.

You mention whooping cough as a serious disease, this is ALSO on the rise because of the anti-vaccination movement.

Obviously it's not too strong not to be safe. However, it's too strong to make all parents feel comfortable with it, and that is just as important. Many parents do not like the MMR vaccine specifically. And even if the data shows that there's nothing wrong with it, that doesn't mean people aren't uniquely afraid of it. A parent isn't going to care what a medical journal says in comparison to their parental instincts and their own life experiences.

If the MMR vaccine was split and offered in a more attractive way to parents then the immunisation rate would increase so as to match the immunisation rates for other childhood immunisations. You can't just go around blaming healthcare consumers - at some point you have to look at they data and say "hey, the MMR vaccine has the lowest usage rate of all the important childhood vaccines, why don't we look to a way to fix this?"

Getting people to feel comfortable with healthcare services/delivery is just as important as providing it in the first place.

Again, what does "too strong" mean in context with a vaccine? If you split the vaccine, will that cause a diminished immune response to the inoculation? How do doses of a vaccine antigen get decided? Any idea? What exactly do you think people are afraid of? How do vaccines work, anyway? I am asking you specifically since you are making this argument.

There is a lot of pseudoscience and internet chatter (often complete lies) about MMR and thimerosal and autism. None of that makes the vaccine "too strong" or unsafe. It's not the vaccine. It's the people believing the false statements. People are NOT looking at the data, they are looking at the lies. If they were looking at the data, they would vaccinate their kids.