Yes, of course they aren't the same. Spacing them makes sense for many people, its easier to monitor a child's reaction to a specific vaccine that way.


But there are too many people who choose to forgo vaccination altogether, and it's a threat to all of us. It compromises herd immunity, endangers babies that are too young to have been vaccinated, the immune compromised and the percentage of us that have been vaccinated but don't develop immunity.

Most routine childhood vaccines are effective for 85% to 95% of recipients. For reasons related to the individual, some of us will not develop immunity. So for some vaccines it can mean 15% are still susceptible, even with the jabs, and most of us don't know as we generally dont get titer tests to check immunity unless we work in healthcare. Add that percentage to the infants and immune suppressed and we're talking about a lot of people that may be affected.

You have some areas of the US where the percentage of unvaccinated is double the norm, like Marin County. Its a public health issue, as the measles outbreak in CA so scarily illustrated.