Question: If two countries A and B both vaccinate against 5 diseases, and for each disease a child receives 3 follow-up shots, making a total of 5×4=20 shots for both countries, is it accurate for someone to compare countries A and B and argue one ‘only’ does 5 shots and the other 20? Of course not, but that is exactly what graphics like the one above from the antivaxx crowd are doing.

If you need to use clear-cut deception to try to argue your points, I am going to assume your points are false and you are a dishonest fraud not worth listening to. If you had real, truthful data to back up your points, you would have showed me that instead. But you didn’t.

In reality, the number of vaccine shots between the US and EU are much closer, normally between 20-40. Note as well that there is no “European schedule” and each EU country can have their own. Also note that the shots are not given in one go as the picture seems to imply, but are given spread out over the entire vaccine schedule which takes months to years.

Always ask yourself: What’s is the message being conveyed here? What is being suggested. Here, the idea that the US has gone bonkers with way too many vaccination shots compared to the rest of the world, posing threats to children’s health in all manner of scary ways. Add some sprinkles of vaccines causing autism and this is of course right up the ally for anti-vaxxers. It should come as no surprise that arguments like these are heavily promoted at the moment by Trump and his government and especially RFK jr., just as they are reducing the number of adviced vaccines in the US.

Why do they hate vaccines so much? No idea. Will people die from this type of misinformation? Yes! In fact people and children are already dying from diseases which have long been virtually eradicated through vaccines, like Measles, which is popping up again largely due to lowered vaccination rates, incited by fearmongering over vaccines and non-existant risks. Sort of tragic, really…