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Okay, this is a topic that's pretty personal to Ibuki, since her mom's riding the anti-vaccine train pretty hard. But still, she's gonna try to be as calm as possible while talking about it.
Yes, sometimes people have adverse reactions to vaccines, and yes, those can be pretty devastating. However, those are pretty rare occasions, and most people suffer little to no severe effects of the vaccine other than being vaccinated against a specific disease.
The reason that diseases like whooping cough and measles have made a comeback recently is because the spread of the anti-vaccine movement has created a lot of kids who aren't immune. As a result, the diseases made a comeback, and now we have to deal with these diseases that we thought had been all but eradicated.
Ibuki's seen some pretty out-there rationalizations for this from the anti-vaccine crowd. Of course, they've tried to pin the blame for the illnesses on immigrants, which is more than a little racist in Ibuki's opinion. Of course, the fact that some of the immigrants they've tried blaming come from countries that have higher vaccine percentages than the United States seems to be lost on them. Honestly, she's surprised that they haven't tried to turn that into an argument yet.
Also, someone tried to convince Ibuki that the vaccinated kids were the ones getting sick because the vaccine itself was causing the outbreak. Ibuki tried to explain what vaccines actually do, but she always got cut off by the exact same argument, never expanding beyond the basic idea of "the vaccines did it". Needless to say, Ibuki wasn't really convinced.
So in conclusion, the blame for the outbreak of diseases falls squarely at the foot of the anti-vaxxers, although they're probably never gonna admit it.
