Endlessly fascinating how much Americans specifically seem to debate vaccines, which every health body in the world reccomends and easily have benefit to risk ratios of hundreds of thousands to one, but breathlessly defend their right to perform surgery on healthily born babies for whatever obscure reasons when no major health body in the world reccomends it and it kills 100-200 babies a year
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-47292307
It's not just Americans. There are a lot of people, including doctors, elsewhere who believe and spread anti-vaccine nonsense. A lot of people in the UK and elsewhere listened to Andrew Wakefield's anti-MMR bullshit, and the UK was one of six countries to lose its measles elimination status in the last several months. "Elimination" doesn't mean zero cases, it means the disease isn't endemic locally, and outbreaks are the result of travel (including travel by unvaccinated locals).
Most Americans aren't going to see the anti-vaccine propaganda in other countries, especially non-Anglophone countries (Spain and Armenia also just lost their measles elimination status). A lot of that crap isn't in the news or on social media, it's at individual doctors' offices, and it's people talking to their neighbors, relatives, friends, the parents of their children's classmates....
