(Anecdote) When I was seventeen, my brother and I contracted N1H1 or more commonly known as swine flu. For fourteen days I was in total agony and, to make matters worse, I still had severe back pain from a compression fracture that had occurred two years earlier. I could barely eat and drink water, or even walk, let alone smoke cigarettes which I was also heavily addicted to at the time. My brother, who is significantly more prone to illness than I, continued to suffer for a whole month from that terrible flu that tore at my intestines; we had gotten sick towards the end of the widespread panic caused by N1H1. I remember hearing that it was a particularly deadly flu and thinking to myself that I was going to die as I lay there feeling like someone was using an ice drill on my stomach. Finally, after a week of constant pain, our mother took us to the doctor to find out what was wrong with us. Years later I heard about the anti-vaccine movement for the first time, which completely baffled me at first and then led me to pay more attention to the details of the opposing camp I believed in. around the world, where many children are not vaccinated and are at greater risk of getting the diseases that vaccines are supposed to protect against. People who refuse to vaccinate their children based on the interesting notion that vaccines cause autism and other disorders or diseases are actually causing more harm that could very likely result in an epidemic. According to the article “Anti-vaccine movement endangers disabled people” by David M. Perry, this movement has the potential to cause serious harm to those individuals who are too medically fragile to be vaccinated. The son of Perry, who has... half of paper... However I see that the benefits of vaccinating children significantly outweigh the risks, because all the possible side effects are nowhere near as terrifying as actually succumbing to a deadly disease I consider the movement anti-vaccines as a waste of resources that could be better used perhaps by developing even better vaccines with fewer side effects As disconcerting as the anti-vaccine movement may be to me, it is my personal opinion, I believe everyone is entitled to their own opinion. unique, but not at the expense of potentially harming hundreds of other people. Considering the possibility of a devastating and deadly outbreak, I thought people wouldn't be so reluctant to vaccinate themselves and their children, but I guess I was wrong. I hope that one day every child will receive vaccinations and not have to fear painful diseases like N1H1.