User:NoelHarstad97

About me
Welcome and thank you for visiting my page! I am 22 years of age and a mom of one spunky two year old boy. I am currently attending college to become a Medical Assistant and once I achieve that goal I will hopefully move onto the University of Washington to become a Nurse Practitioner. Some of my hobbies include painting, basketball and journalism. Writing in a journal really helps me cope with things and as well is fun to look back to for memories. Writing in a journal can even help you sleep better. I work at a local restaurant and as a personal assistant for various independent business owners; but I am starting a program to become a Certified Nursing Assistant so I can build patient care hours and get into the field of my interest which is the medical field.

My Wikipedia interest
If I continue my usage on Wikipedia I will probably dabble in researching and editing scientific articles and mental health articles. I truly feel that there is so much information waiting to be shared and also changed because of misinformation. It would be my pleasure to look into those articles more and see what the community has to say and feels.

Article Evaluation
Ignorant, risky, and selfish are some of the words used that the pro-vaccination community use to describe an anti-vax person. I myself am not a pro-vax person but I would not consider myself entirely an anti-vax person. The subject alone interests me heavily because both viewpoints have their validity. I for sure side more with the anti-vax community for many reasons. The interesting thing is that you usually do not see the anti-vaccination community degrading and putting down people who do vaccinate. I visited the Vaccine hesitancy article on Wikipedia, and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: lack of identifying why people are anti-vax, biased approach and an unreliable source of proof.

There is no reason actually identifying why people decide to become anti-vaccination. I felt like the community was highly unrepresented. For the most part it talked about how this community of people could possibly damage the population of people by re-establishing infectious disease. Not once did it speak on how people have had vaccination hesitancy because in every single aftercare sheet "DEATH" is a possible risk after receiving the vaccine and you are not told this until after they already administer. I felt like it was talking about how negative being a anti-vax person is. Which leads me onto my next topic as to why this article is poor quality and that is that it is heavily biased.

Based off the first reason we could probably assume that the article was biased. It seemed as if it was written from a pro-vax standpoint and would rather slander the anti-vax population instead of understand it. The overview was vague and only gave three reasons why people decide to be anti-vax which all but one were untrue. Those being lack of confidence in the vaccine or physician, complacency or people not seeing a need for vaccines and lastly convenience. The only one I partly agree with would be the lack of confidence. But once again it was written in a way of slander not to educate. Anti-vax community have confidence that the vaccines work for infectious disease but they do not trust the study behind the side affects of these vaccines and that they are entirely safe for our consumption especially in children before the age of two. Which brings me to my third and final point; unreliable source of proof for information they were trying to provide.

As I was reading I clicked on many wiki links the article had to offer and there was one major one that stood out to me. One the link was actually a PDF and not a wiki page at all. It mostly touched based on the thought that vaccines cause Autism and it being one of the reasons people do not want their child to obtain a vaccination. Though this statement was true it was another article that was biased and gave information with no citations to back up its clause. It talked about people linking the MMR vaccine to autism for different reasons. In my research one of the biggest worries are the chemical components in vaccines. Previously they used Thimerosal and Mercury and they were used as a preservative additive to the vials of the vaccines and major toxins to the body. But now they use Aluminum, which is one of the most toxic metals to the body. All three of these toxins causes damage to the brain which is one of the assumptions that it has increased Autism and many other diseases. The wiki link did not have any information about these toxins and had no other links to prove the studies that were explained within that link to prove its information.

My outlook on this article is simple. If you plan on spreading information about anything but especially about a complicated matter ensure to have all the facts...good and bad. If you look up a pro-vaccination article it states how these people are helping the community and doing what they are suppose to do. Though I understand that our government controls things they should not be able to control what someone does or does not do to their body. If your child is vaccinated then you should not care or worry about the children that are not because they are already protected. Maybe one day I will go back and edit the article to something more neutral because I was to shed some light to people and he anti-vax community who constantly get out down for not vaccinating their child. My own child has had two severe reactions to vaccinations and it shifted my belief on the matter. The article should have talked about how do what is right for you family and you unit and how both parties have reasons for choosing and not choosing to vaccinate. It should have come with more facts and have been written with more substance than what it had.