Umm—If the other kids are vaccinated and mine aren’t, it shouldn’t be a problem.
Vaccination is a preventative measure, right?
This is the classic Prisoner's Dilemma problem. If everyone believed this, then no child would be vaccinated and the risk of the disease spreading would be higher.
Umm—If the other kids are vaccinated and mine aren’t, it shouldn’t be a problem.
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In the broadest sense, you are correct.
Seemingly the ONLY ones not vaccinated are those whose parents chose not to do so.
BUT you should be given a choice - No shot - you must buy insurance to cover your kid in case one of the other non shots infect your kid or vice versa. NO GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE, Make shot free, Make premium ‘high’.
In the same token what about the kids that live in your project or play with your kids? Supposedly the shot makes them immune (yea right)SO,
back to my line 2...
if the ‘best laid plans’ are correct, the only ones in ‘trouble’ are the cluster that doesn’t get shots.
Not entirely correct. A vaccination greatly reduces one's chances of getting a disease, but nothing is 100% effective.
So in your scenario, your unvaccinated child runs a risk of getting a disease. Then there is a very, very small chance that your child could pass that disease on to a vaccinated child.
But there's more to it than that. When many unvaccinated kids are in the picture, there is obviously a greater chance that the disease will spread among those kids. And that in turn will increase the risk to the vaccinated kids: The many very, very small chances will add up!
Finally some common sense.
Vaccinations aren’t 100% effective, so it is only common sense to also segregate yourself from those who are likely to get infected.