The poster, which Sunni later learned was written by the Northern Rivers Vaccination Association, tries to get parents to think about what could happen when unvaccinated babies grow into unvaccinated adults. “When your daughter gets rubella when pregnant, how are you going to explain that you chose to leave her at risk?” the poster reads. “What will you say when she calls you and tells you she has cervical cancer, because you decided that she wouldn’t need the HPV vaccine?” People are getting heated over her post, and Sunni hopes that it will make people think. “Even though I don’t have children, I want to keep everyone’s children as safe as possible. I worry for kids and adults who cannot get vaccinated because of immune issues, and I don’t think they should have to suffer because of misinformation, so I’m always going to use my voice to speak up for them,” she tells CafeMom. “What comes to mind for me is a quote by Harlan Ellison: ‘You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.’” Sunni says that despite not being a parent, this topic hits close to home and her experience deserves to be heard. “With my research, I’ve seen a lot of skeletons or mummified remains of people who have died horrible deaths from diseases that are now preventable because of vaccination, and I think because of vaccination we as a society are beginning to forget how awful these diseases are,” she says. “I hope people learn to trust history and science and not rely on fake websites with falsified information. Many of them have ulterior motives for creating those websites and don’t have any academic background in the subject.”
