I feel that the same effect is at play with vaccines. Because few Americans have seen Measles, Mumps and Rubella first hand they are more willing to take irres

I feel that the same effect is at play with vaccines. Because few Americans have seen Measles, Mumps and Rubella first hand they are more willing to take irresponsible risks. Things like a 10% mortality rate make a disease feel safe because people think they will always be in the 90%. Anybody with a cursory knowledge of mortality rates knows that 10% is a horrifying number and that disease must be awful, some strains of Ebola kill 10% of people getting it.