No more vaccines
Until 2020, I have taken every recommended vaccine on the US schedule. Happily. I've asked for them.
I will never take another vaccine again aside from a tetanus booster. My response is normal. It is proportionate and appropriately responsive to the reality we have learned about what public health and pharmaceutical companies will do.
I now strongly suspect we've been lied to about earlier vaccines and their risk-benefit profiles, too.
Again, my response is normal. I didn't become crazy. I am making a rational decision that many reasonable people have also made. If my decision strikes you, vaccine-proponent, as "crazy," it is you who is misguided and mistaken. Notice that I'm not calling you crazy (the way you are getting ready to label me). I think you are mistaken, not crazy.
But I am not mistaken in my skepticism and caution. You, vaccine proponent, would agree and acknowledge this in any other context. That you cannot is because you are emotionally terrified to recognize reality because it will destabilize your world view significantly.
That’s your emotional issue to work on. You may choose to work on it, or choose not to. But it won’t make me crazy, or “conspiracy-minded,” or any of the other things you use to comfort yourself. And you’ll know that.
I hope, for you, that the cognitive dissonance becomes so unbearable that you break. Because when you break, you come back to reality. I want that for you, and I want it for all of us who have an interest in a livable, sane society.
It's a very lonely place, coming to realize that the institutions of the government, the military, education, religion - none of it can be trusted. Some of us have become wiser, but much sadder with that realization.
Hear, hear! I got flu shots in college (because a math major missing class for two weeks would have been a dealbreaker, almost impossible to recover from) and I got caught up on childhood vaccines as an adult once I found out that I didn't get them as a child. Looking back, I feel so stupid for believing the medical industry long enough to do those things. Never again. I will never again trust the medical establishment to tell me what to inject into my body. I will make my own decisions after doing my own research, context-dependent. Like you, tetanus boosters are the only thing I'm willing to approve at the moment. Lying bastards.