"I Was Duped by the Anti-Vaccine Movement!" - Maranda Dynda Shares Her Story

We were consistently paranoid about the agenda of doctors and nurses, and deep down, we were scared that Child Protection Services would take Ramona away from us for not vaccinating due to the “big pHARMa”conspiracy and their grip on the government.

I had never considered myself a conspiracy theorist, and always found them very silly. Yet here I was, diving head first into one. But that same innate resistance to outlandish conspiracy theories is exactly what slowly pulled me out of this alternate reality and into the truth.

While I was fine and okay with not vaccinating since I truly believed my choice was based on science, I had doubts on other things that my vaccine-denying peers believed in. Things like essential oils, chemtrails, FEMA death camps, and even AIDS denialism. I asked myself if I found no proof or reason to believe in THOSE ideas that they promote with the same fervor as their anti-vaccine views, then why am I so confident that they’re right about vaccines? Why, when I had always loved and trusted science with everything in my being, did I distrust medicine and doctors? Things that I used to be so confident in I was now unsure of. I decided it was time to visit the vaccine conversation once more, with a new perspective and science mindset.


Wanna hear more about Maranda Dynda's journey from anti-vaccine to pro-vaccine? Read the rest of her story at Voices for Vaccines.