"Vast Majority Of Online Anti-Vaxxers Are Women"
Alan: Women are caught between an instinctual drive to protect their children while simultaneously needing to protect their own psyches from the psycho-spiritual blowback of doing ANY possible harm -- particularly deliberately "self-chosen" harm -- to their children
They are pronged by the horns of an "impossible" dilemna.
If they vaccinate their kids, they will -- with overwhelming likelihood -- prevent life-threatening communicable disease.
"Vaccination Works: Over the past two decades, childhood vaccines have saved the lived of 732,000 U.S. children and prevented more than 300 million kids from getting sick, a 2014 study from the Centers for Disease Control and prevention (CDC) found, Live Science previously reported.
However, since "nothing is perfect," there is also a vanishingly remote possibility that vaccination will cause their kids catastrophic damage or even death.
Confronting this quandary, women turn their back on Reason and statistical truth, reverting instead to "personal feeling."
In this calculus they would rather "risk" their kids' random affliction by preventable disease than live with the harrowing thought that they might be "personally responsible" for "actively" doing something that caused their child's paralysis or death.
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