If you live in a community with 98% vaccination rates, you can afford to be the 2%.
You can post wellness memes about "natural immunity" and still get herd immunity as a side effect.
Your child is statistically safe, not because of your parenting, but in spite of it.
https://www.theindex.media/the-herd-immunity-illusion/
https://www.theindex.media/the-herd-immunity-illusion/
Joan Westenberg /
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2025-05-28 06:38:20
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