CMV: I don’t want to vaccinate my 5 & 7 year olds.

I’m not sure where I would have the opportunity to get the opinion of an expert. There are many experts who have expressed the same concerns I have, the vaccine is not appropriate or necessary for everyone and there are risks. But unless they support the narrative that everyone should get the vaccine for some reason they’re not considered credible, even if nothing in their career beforehand indicated anything that suggests that they’re any-science or anti-vaccine. Even if it’s the BMJ. If you can’t trust the most reputable medical journals who are you supposed to trust? Everyone keeps saying trust the science but apparently you can only trust the science that agrees with your particular government’s recommendations. Other countries have paused vaccine rollouts for kids following deaths, others have banned certain vaccines for risks that aren’t being acknowledged by my government, so who’s right in this case? When vaccines are compulsory for school, If I refuse I’m going be ostracized and forced to homeschool my kids, if they get seriously ill due to not being vaccinated I’m going to hate myself, if they get vaccinated and have a serious adverse event I’m going to hate myself.

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