Over the last decade, the anti-vaxx community has grown to a surprising extent. For much of this time, they've existed on the fringes of social media and channeled common parental fears and potential guilt to create a frantic distrust for medical science.
For a time, medical professionals could only stand baffled at the idea that vaccines were some sort of evil scheme by Big Pharma.
However, now that the anti-vaxxer mentality is responsible for actual public health crises, it seems they've run out of patience.