[coldtea]

How do you convince your wife when your child gets the disease that vaccination would have protected them against (which is far more likely to happen, and has cost thousands upon thousands of recorded deaths in the past)?

Your question is analogous to: "If you told you kid it's ok to go out and play, and while outside a car hit him, do you let the other child ever go out again?" probability wise.

[henalye]

But that's exactly what happens sometimes. Family was ridiculously overprotective of me and crossing roads because my sister got run over by a car. I was barely able to go out and do anything at all outside until I managed to get out of that environment because my older cousin got herself into drugs.

While this is merely anecdotal evidence, my story is not unique. The younger sibling paying dearly for the bias caretakers incurred thanks to correlation to a bad incident is far, far from a rare occurrence.

[coldtea]

>But that's exactly what happens sometimes. Family was ridiculously overprotective of me and crossing roads because my sister got run over by a car.

Well yes, and it isn't the right reaction, not in this case, and neither in the example about vaccination.

Of course it's also all too human and understandable, but in the end it remains absurd.