I had my son get all his vaccinations on schedule. Even though he'd cry and skitter around the room like a cat when they came in the room with a needle.

Next few times he got over it and eventually it didn't even bother him to get poked anymore.

I know it's terrible to see as a parent and comforting them sometimes doesn't work. You can't walk out of there just giving up. Shots really suck when you are little, but they are much better than dying from the diseases they prevent.

You're giving them way too much credit. It's as simple as what a credentialed authority figure says must be part of some agenda but what a whatsapp/FB post or contrarian podcaster/blogger says is good and credible.

I don't think it's that - these people are just cheap, and MAHA gives them a permission structure to save a few dollars at the doctor.

The absolute numbers are still very low, and these folks tend to have more babies overall, so I don't think there's much silver lining here, even a grim one. They're just accepting higher infant mortality for no good reason because they don't understand statistics or that evolution doesn't care about "perfect" or about any individual baby (or anything else of course, because it's just a biological principle, but you take my meaning).

You have to work with who gets born and just try to bring as much critical thinking and empathy into the world as you can. If anything "good" will come of this, it will be as cautionary tales parents and doctors tell pregnant people.

At this point I am much worried about the future effect of evil bloodlines then of stupid ones.

They do often go hand in hand, granted, but there are some wonderful stupid and/or mentally handicapped folks out there.

This is society healing itself of modernity and returning to its natural form. Soon the average lifespan shall once again be a healthy 25, just as Mother Gaia intended.