I don’t think I said vaccines are against religion. I was referring to the pparent’s right not to vaccinate based on religious grounds. Perhaps they don’t like what is used in the vaccines, and maybe they don’t believe the govenment or the pharmaceutical companies has my children’s best intentions at heart. Of my six, the three old enough to attend college have all done just fine with no diphtheria, or pertussis. It is amazing to me that some FReepers who would rail against government and big industry telling us to do A or B, toe the government line when it comes to vaccines. Especially when the research doesn’t support many of the claims, as most government funded studies do. Sound familiar? (think man-made global warming) Follow the money.
Again, what religious grounds (and religion for that matter) would deny a child access to something that will prevent them from having to needlessly suffer through diseases that have killed and maimed children since forever? Sounds like stupidity, not a religion. But then, some people argue that Scientology is a religion.
Your right to get/be sick ends where my right to be healthy begins. No person has the right to threaten the safety of his community, which is exactly what you're advocating for. When you don't know anything about science, because of ignorance or because the schools no longer teach it, you'll believe just about anything you find on the internet.
People support vaccines because the evidence that they work, and save untold lives, is indisputable. Your children have made their way through life unaffected by these once common afflictions, in spite of your ignorance, because enough of the population had vaccinations and a herd immunity was created. Unfortunately, more and more people have adopted a similar selfish and Luddite attitude, and that, combined with open borders, are subjecting children to diseases that should have been eradicated from this country a long time ago.
To equate vaccines with AGW in any way is just about as stupid as it gets. The companies making vaccines have stopped making many of them because they are not profitable.Follow the money? When it comes to vaccines, that's just as stupid as linking vaccines to AGW. Vaccine research could provide the answer to cancer in the future. You and the illegal invaders have something in common, you are both spreading disease throughout the country and punishing the youngest, most vulnerable, and most innocent of society. How noble.