If those who want all kids in school vaccinated go ahead and vaccinate their OWN kids, what difference does it make when someone who isn’t vaccinated arrives?
But, you're all wet when facts and reason are applied.
It is a fact that vaccines have a limited effectiveness. They do not work on every one who is vaccinated. The effectiveness on a mass population is dependent on a sort of "firewall" generated by the majority whose vaccines are working effectively. Your vaccine for polio, for instance, may be a dud. But with so many around you who are vaccinated, you are protected by their vaccine from being exposed. As soon as enough people are not vaccinated, you will contract polio because your chances of being exposed increase.
You take for granted this "firewall"--the way so many take for granted our military whose sacrifice gives us freedom.
Wander around old country cemeteries. Eventually you will come across a row of little stones where a family of children, maybe five or six, have died within days or months of each other. Imagine having a house of children all die of the same disease within a short time of each other. This was diphtheria.
It will probably take an outbreak of something awful to shake this hysteria and complacency. Generally, I don't manage to convince hysterics. It's a level of emotion that cannot be touched by common sense.
I agree that the HPV vaccine deserves discussion and scrutiny. It is not the devastating illness that diphtheria is…but at least look at the science. Your kid may not be sexually promiscuous, but may end up married to someone who is.
That’s what I keep asking.....
It's the classic free-rider problem. If everyone (or almost everyone) thought that way, then nobody (or almost nobody) would get vaccinated, relying on the mistaken assumption that everyone else is vaccinated.