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Originally Posted by kdogg
There are only a handful of case of measles, mumps, rubella each year.
From the first site I Googled (don't know how old these are):
Measles: approx 1 in 2,720,000 or 0.00% or 100 people in USA
Mumps: approx 1 in 702,842 or 0.00% or 387 people in USA
Rubella: approx 1 in 747,252 or 0.00% or 364 people in USA
If my child is generally at home most of the time, if I were a betting man, I would say he's probably not going to get these diseases being at home.
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You do understand though that the whole reason those rates are so low is because of the vaccinations right?
The more people that decide to delay or not vaccinate, the rates will increase, it is happening now, and there have been deaths as a result.
And to make an evaluation of risks, you have to weigh the other factors, here you've just put some numbers on the risks of contracting the disease (assuming you are the only one who decides to delay). What about the other risk, the thing you are trying to avoid by delaying vaccinations, you have to put an evaluation to that as well.