I understand that.
But the people who insist that vaccination is totally good — they always get their kids vaccinated, right? So that they don’t pick up a particular communicable disease.
But if my neighbors skip vaccinations ... why do I care?
I think this is a serious and very basic question. I don’t like the Nanny State. I will take care of my kids, and I will vaccinate my kids. But my neighbors should be able to make their own choices. Their choices will not affect me.
Well, you don’t have to care. It’s the kid with the negligent parent or the hippie-dippy anti-vaccine parent who has to care.
Because vaccines are not 100% effective. As someone else mentioned you can still get sick. The neighbor kid who is unvaccinated increases everyone’s risk.
“Their choices will not affect me.”
We had to get smallpox vaccinations, which was a nasty shot.
Now that shot is no longer required, as smallpox has been eradicated. That was achieved by vaccinating everyone.
I was on a Navy ship in heavy seas when we all had to get a plague shot in one arm and cholera in the other. I’d really like to see those diseases eradicated so that nobody has to get those shots any more.