[TaxRelief]

The risk of death certainly outweighs the risk of mild mental problems.

I was actually thinking about healthy people getting flu shots so that they don't miss work or have to deal with the discomfort of being ill.

[Lee'sGhost]

I'm not sure which way you mean that. Getting the shot to prevent missing work or getting the shot (as wrongly held by some) and missing work because the shot makes you sick.

Getting vaccinated, of course, won't make you sick unless, possibly, it is the new spray vaccine, which is a live virus.

[Maelstrom]

The risk of death is preferable to the risk of mental problems.

You have no idea of the damage autism causes or you would accept that some fates are worse than death and would absolutely accept that as parents, we should have the right to decide these issues for our own children.

[cupcakes]

Spoken like a person who does not have a child with mysterious "mild mental problems". Really, you have no idea, none at all. I had your cavalier attitude with my first child and then my second mysteriously started developing these problems *gasp* after his 12 month old round of shots. I'd love to show you pictures of a smiling, attentive baby at 9 months and a virtual zombie at a year old. Vaccines have nothing to do with it--yeah right! At almost 4, my son is only now starting to say words a little more sporadically, pay attention to warning signs, etc. He starts a special preschool in a week which YOU and I and every taxpayer get to pay for. Your attitude is why I take NO shame in accepting these special services. If recommendations like yours help put him where he is, then you and everyone who blindly gives a nod to vaccines can help pay for his care for the rest of his life.

[Paved Paradise]

MILD mental problems????

You obviously don't know what you are talking about.