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Unfortunately my wife cannot get the MMR vaccine. She essentially has to quarantine whenever there is a case in the area.
Why?
People with particularly weak immune systems or people on immunosuppressant drugs are advised not to get the MMR vaccine. There's also some other edge case reasons.
Like me, she's probably immunocompromised and/or on medication that causes it, so she can't take live vaccines like MMR.
Which is why every single person in the U.S. who had an organ transplant is likely exasperated and infuriated by all the anti-vaxxers. Those people could literally kill them just by being in their proximity. And the anti-vaxxers tell people like that to just not go outside. Really.
My personal pet peeve is when people say things like "Well, they're only hurting themselves," or, "at least anti-vaxxers will kill themselves off." That's not how it works, and they are hurting everyone else more than they are hurting themselves.
Vaccination is not a personal choice, it's a public health concern. It's like someone saying it's their personal choice to drive inebriated.
She had an organ transplant when she was young and is on immunosuppressants. The MMR is a live vaccine so she can't take it.