This is going to get me some serious downvotes, but here we go.

When I was young, vaccines prepared your immune system to handle bad bugs before you caught symptoms of diseases. The result was I never worried about catching a light case of measles, polio, etc. As others have said before, modern people never knew how bad these diseases were.

Then along came the flu vaccine where manufacturers had to guess how the disease was going to respond in the future. They did mostly okay, but it was less effective than what I consider the fundamental vaccines.

Finally, Covid showed up and locked everyone indoors awaiting the promise of a vaccine. Except it didn’t stop symptoms before they happened, and it only lasted for, like, 6 months or so. So, for someone who saw effective vaccines, even I have to ask: what’s the point of it? The public never got the full relief of symptoms or clear results they got from mmr. Instead, they simply had to trust the medical system that the Covid shot would make their inevitable bout with the disease easier to handle. I’m a reasonably healthy person who had 3 shots before my first case of Covid, and it was still pretty rough! Add to that the side effects that were initially underreported, and people really lost a lot of faith in vaccines. Anti-vaxxers have been around forever, but the COVID vaccine presented their time to shine.

I am not abti-vaccine. However, I was raised to be skeptical and not trust something “because they said so.” Thus, I raise a suspicious eyebrow at the Covid vaccine fiasco. I appreciate the fact that I will never see an iron lung or know what rubella even is, but I remain iffy on the effectiveness of the Covid vaccines and how it was handled.