People have always or least should, question any response thought to be valid response, regardless of how many accept it.
Just one case involved a Polio vaccine in the 1990s There was a known risk of the vaccination, which caused roughly one case of the disease per 2.4 million doses, often in people with an immune deficiency. A safer, inactivated, polio vaccine was available at the time, but the oral vaccine was cheaper, easier to administer and thought to be more effective at controlling outbreaks. Should the individuals who refused that vaccine, "Either get over it, or hang onto your buggy whip"?
Another was a 1976 swine-flu vaccine distributed in the United States was associated with between five and nine cases per one million vaccine recipients. Scientists were specifically looking for Guillain-Barré syndrome, a paralytic disorder that is often treatable but can cause long-term disability or death.During the 2009–10 pandemic, something stranger turned up: some 60 cases of narcolepsy emerged among 4- to 19-year-olds in Finland. Most had received the H1N1 vaccine Pandemrix, made by GlaxoSmithKline in Brentford, UK. Another narcolepsy cluster showed up in Sweden. Should those individuals also have been told "Either get over it, or hang onto your buggy whip"?
What is thought to be sound medical advice one day, may not be the next. We should not disparage someone simply because they choose not to follow along with the masses.
