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> Just a while ago in Tahti, a family asked a nurse not to vaccinate their new born child. The nurse did it anyway, and the infant died within 3 minutes. A second family, minutes after, told the nurse also not to do it. The nurse did it anyway, and the second infant died. Apparently there were riots and the government had to come in a seize the vaccines (MMR).

This seems to be a distorted retelling of events that happened earlier this month. [0] It was in Samoa, not Tahiti; from all accounts I am find only the second child’s parents (two hours, not mere minutes, after the first) declined the vaccine, having heard about the first incident.

And there is little reason at this point to think this story about the MMR vaccine supports your point about risky vaccines; it is much more likely that it is about mishandling the vaccine at the particular facility. Because MMR is given all around the world, and cluster incidents like this happen at an extremely low rate (and are fairly consistently shown to be medical errors—such as injecting the wrong thing, e.g., by staff using something other than water as the diluent—and not problems with the vaccine itself.)

[0] https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/two-babies-die-in-samo...

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/10/health/samoa-mmr-baby-dea... for anyone who wants a link.

MMR isn't risky though. It doesn't kill people, especially not two children in a row. The chances of a reaction to MMR in that situation are astronomical. If that story is true, the common variables there are the nurse, equipment, location etc. Which points to a cause there, not the vaccine.

It's anecdotal crap, told in way that relates directly to other parents "told the nurse not do it" to help with the virality of the story. You can't draw an opinion on MMR from that, least not from all vaccinations.

Before passing judgment or engaging in discussion, I have to ask do you have link to the Tahti case?

Thanks! :)

> Some vaccines are very risky, and there are really good reasons (backed by scientific evidence) to be concerned with risks.

You know what be helpful? If you actually named these risky vaccines, so we can look at these good, scientifically backed reasons.

Whenever you're shooting up a human with something you need to be careful about what you're shooting them up with.

That doesn't say anything about vaccines.