[agsloss]

How many of those with pertussis were already vaccinated? There is enough evidence, scientific as well as anecdotal, to question the safety and efficacy of vaccinations.
Why is this the only medical procedure over which I cannot exercise informed consent?

[monday]

"Why is this the only medical procedure over which I cannot exercise informed consent?"

It is also a public heath issue. If not for vaccines many more than one in 166 children would die from the diseases that vaccines prevent. These diseases used to run in epidemics killing thousands. If a child is vaccinated, not only do they not get the disease themselves, but they do not pass the disease on to others.

In a very real sense, parents who vaccinate their children are the ones who make it possible for children who are not vaccinated to live relatively safe, disease free lives, because it is these vaccinated kids which prevent the widespread epidemics that used to kill thousands.

[razorback-bert]

Why is this the only medical procedure over which I cannot exercise informed consent?

Floride!

Here I am on the road without my tinfoil.