You no more have the right to risk others by failing to vaccinate than you do by sending your child to school with a hunting knife. Vaccination isn't a private choice but a civic obligation.
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People think they're making individual decisions for themselves and their family not to get vaccinated. It's not just an individual choice - you're a hazard to society.
I do know that I think children should be vaccinated because that affects the health of all the other children.
You can't save kids just with vaccines.
Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.
Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.
We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.
We're all in denial from time to time. We all see things that are too painful to really deal with. But this has consequences, and the consequences of not vaccinating your children are not only just that those children are exposed to illnesses; it's that everyone else they go to school with and they hang around with are, too.
Education is the vaccine for violence.
Why do other first world countries give children so many fewer vaccines than we do? Vaccines save lives, but might be harming some children. Is moderation such a terrible idea?
You don't have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.