It is awfully hard to assess the risks of vaccines when the last year has shown me that the medical profession, public health professionals, research doctors, journalists, government, science journals will all actively suppress information.

You can't make a risk assessment when people are destroying their data because it was too scary to publish. I can't cite the data they trashed. No one can.

https://sharylattkisson.com/2021/06/read-cdc-senior-scientist-we-trashed-data-showing-vaccine-autism-link-in-african-american-boys/

How many other studies just don't happen because of the fear of what the results might be? So you can point me to the respectable articles in the proper journals and I wonder what I'm -not- seeing.

That is what the covid pandemic has taught me. I would have and did accept the argument that some vaccines are worthwhile when I believed that there were more honest researchers and less institutional dogmatic conformity.

Yes your scary measles picture is scary-- just like the monkeypox photos we are bombarded with every day. It is also a cheap tactic.

At this point, I'd be willing to take the risk of measles coming back over the risk of trusting the medical establishment to be honest about their research.

Earning back trust is a hill they will have to climb for many years.

As for this substack article, I can go literally anywhere else on the internet to see vaccine cheerleading and scary illness pictures to motivate me to get the next new thing injected. Why should I come here for it? Plus the added snark about what type of people can sustain "discussion and goodwill" when you are throwing around scary illness pictures is especially rude.

How do you think the parents of children who suffered sudden and drastic declines in health or died shortly after a routine vaccination appointment feel about the underhanded accusation that they may not be the "sort of people [who can] sustain discussion and goodwill despite disagreement?"