Nobody has answered my question on any threads. If you and your family is vaccinated what do you have to worry about? If you are vaccinated you are supposedly protected from the anti-vaxxers.
I answered this point at least twice! Just because you ignore something does not mean that it goes away.
Firstly not everyone can get vaccinations - people with weak immune systems often cannot get live vaccines for risk of them getting ill from it. In societies with high vaccination rates they are protected by herd immunity; the idea that everyone else is vaccinated so the chance of them picking up something that could be incredibly harmful for them - more harmful than it would be for a person with a normal immune system - is incredibly low but with falls in that rate that is become a lot more likely.
Secondly there is a chance that the vaccine fails to produce the antibodies required for the body to be protected from whatever they are vaccinated against. I know that when it come to measles and the MMR vaccine that rate is between 5% and 10% in children aged twelve months which falls to something like 1% with a second dose. Now when you get to a 99% protection level herd immunity works well in eradicating the disease but when you fall below that then outbreaks can and do affect people who were vaccinated against something and assume that they are protected. And that's why I care about this: because there is a chance - albeit a small one - that myself or someone that I care about might not be protected from these diseases and I'd rather not have to put that to chance.
There are regulations that we set in society for public health: cars have emission standards that they must meet to avoid putting a load of crap into the atmosphere; there are things that aren't allowed into food because they are incredibly bad for health - I think that heavily encouraging people to vaccinate their children is something that meets similar goals.
