RFK Jr. is spewing childish libertarian nonsense Vaccines are not a "personal choice."

[ShazzieB]

27. Exactly!

EDIT: Accidentally hit "post" before I was finished.

There's this thing called herd immunity, which vaccine skeptics and antivaxxers are either ignorant of or pretend not to comprehend.

Herd immunity means that enough people in a group or area have achieved immunity (protection) against a virus or other infectious agent to make it very difficult for the infection to spread. Immunity happens in multiple ways: through natural infection, vaccination or passive transfer. Vaccination is the best way.

Every person who has immunity makes it harder for the infection to spread to other people. If you’re vaccinated, it’ll be harder for the virus to use you to infect other people or to mutate into a new variant. Higher numbers of immune people are needed to stop the spread if a virus is very infectious.

Source: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/22599-herd-immunity