I am against mandatory vaccinations. IF schools want to ban those children then they need to supply teachers to come to the houses of banned children so that they can teach them.
Why? If a person wants to use public services, then they need to abide by the rules to use that service.
Grace: For kids with cancer, other families’ vaccination choices can mean ‘life or death’
By Erin Grace / World-Herald columnist | Posted 17 hours ago
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Sammy is 7 and has spent half his life battling something called neuroblastoma. He’s had so many chemotherapy treatments that his mother has lost count. The treatments have knocked out his immune system, making Sammy at risk for an old-fashioned disease that has resurfaced — measles.
Sammy is too sick to get a second measles shot. The first vaccine he got, at 12 months, is no longer good after all the chemo. So Sammy, who has beautiful blue-gray eyes like his mom and an affinity for the iPad like just about every other child, is a human sponge for germs. A cold can be serious. The measles could be a killer.
So Sammy’s health, fragile as it is, depends on the health of the rest of us — the herd.
If the herd stays vaccinated, then infants and the weak among us have a much better chance of staying measles-free.
“It only takes one time to be exposed,” Erin Nahorny said at Children’s, where Sammy was receiving a blood transfusion. “It’s like life or death to us.”
Contact the writer: erin.grace@owh.com, twitter.com/ErinGraceOWH
That doesn't open up Pandora's Box or anything... mandatory sterilization of anybody with an IQ under 90 and half of the people living in the South is best for our nation too, does that work for you?
Why? If a person wants to use public services, then they need to abide by the rules to use that service.
That doesn't open up Pandora's Box or anything... mandatory sterilization of anybody with an IQ under 90 and half of the people living in the South is best for our nation too, does that work for you?
Yikes! That was extreme. Mandatory vaccinations is not comparable to eugenics.
That logic is a pandora's box. Where are it's limits?
That logic is a pandora's box. Where are it's limits?
It could be...when you give society or it's govt the right to decide for you what medical avenues to take.
It could be...when you give society or it's govt the right to decide for you what medical avenues to take.
Yikes! That was extreme. Mandatory vaccinations is not comparable to eugenics.
The argument has been for the greater good and what the government should do... should unvaccinated kids be allowed in parks, the DMV, the post office?
The argument has been for the greater good and what the government should do... should unvaccinated kids be allowed in parks, the DMV, the post office?
Huh?If the chances are 'infinitesmally low", why vaccinate at all?
Or can you not connect the dots to see that the vaccinations themselves are what lower the chances of infection (which I also spelled out for you in my original post)
Huh?
This really has no relevance to the original point that was made, which was that there's no reason to be fearful that your infant grandchild might die, or that they are at any real greater risk of dying, due to a tiny outbreak of measles. Its nonsense, as are all these news stories that aim to scare people about this "deadly disease" by trying to pass off third world statistics as being somehow relevant to care here in the US.
Fifty years ago, before there was a vaccine, we had millions of people infected with measles, and something like 65 infant deaths per year. Now we should worry, because 200 people got measles at Disneyland?
Give me a break.
And to take your argument to it's logical extent, we should disband the United States as an entity. Smaller government is better, right?
Smaller government is MUCH better... the USA can exist with one quite easily.
Right. And the smallest government is no government at all.
If you shrink government, is this not the logical conclusion?
Yikes! That was extreme. Mandatory vaccinations is not comparable to eugenics.
When did I state that I wanted no government? Some laws are good. The Social Contract is a good thing... within limits.
Worry? No. Vaccinate.
It's a public health risk to not get vaccinations for diseases that at one time were wide spread. I'm sad to hear some diseases that were once almost eradicated are coming back due to people not vaccinating their children.
About the same time anybody said they wanted eugenics, or to bar unvaccinated people from any public space.
So, apparently wanting "smaller government" doesn't mean wanting no government. Could this also mean that supporting the current vaccination system doesn't mean supporting putting the unvaccinated in some kind of leper colony?
Really? Were you there back then, or it is something you read on the Internet?
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