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Vaccine Critics Turn Defensive Over Measles [W:1210]

Education is a Right of the People... sorry.

Great. So go to a private school or homeschool your child.

Or vaccinate your child.

Plenty of options.
 
Great. So go to a private school or homeschool your child.

Or vaccinate your child.

Plenty of options.

Sure are... including not vaccinating your kid and attending public school...
 
Here is something else quite interesting about this vaccination that some of you say children must have. No wonder parents don't want their children getting this vaccine.



The rest of this article is here for you to peruse. Please conduct your research.

The early vaccine? What about the later ones?
 
...and I added another valid one. Want to keep going?

Based on an incorrect assumption that you have a right to attend public school while endangering others with your choice.
 
Based on an incorrect assumption that you have a right to attend public school while endangering others with your choice.

My children attend public school and are no more endangering anybody than anybody else. The parents driving their kids to school are a far greater threat to the innocent children.
 
When we paid for the MMR in CA it was $300.

Just an FYI

If you did not health insurance you should have gone to the county health dept clinic.
Vaccinations usually cost between $10 and $20 depending on the county you live in.

In some states even if you have health insurance you can still get the reduced fee vaccinations at the county health dept.

Well worth the few extra miles.
 
No, but it's very likely that the precedent could lead the government to force other things upon it's citizens.

In the 50s all children had to have their vaccinations up to date in order to go to public school.
That's just the way it was.

Today children are still required to go school ( between ages 5/6 to 16 ) or be home schooled.
Is that setting precedent that could lead the government to forcing other things upon it citizens ?
 
My children attend public school and are no more endangering anybody than anybody else. The parents driving their kids to school are a far greater threat to the innocent children.

And interestingly enough we have all sorts of rules and regulations regarding the operation of motor vehicles to help mitigate those risks!
 
And interestingly enough we have all sorts of rules and regulations regarding the operation of motor vehicles to help mitigate those risks!

Yeah, like the right to NOT drive a car just like the right to NOT take a shot.
 
Why wouldn't it be applicable to vaccinations? Either one has personal sovereignty over their own body, or they don't.

That's like saying you don't have sovereignty over your own body because you're not allowed to go around using your own body to punch people for no reason.
 
Yeah, like the right to NOT drive a car just like the right to NOT take a shot.

Yes. If you want to engage in an activity, there can be requirements for doing so.

Going to public school? Follow your state's vaccination requirements. Driving a car? Follow your state's driving requirements. What's the issue?
 
That's like saying you don't have sovereignty over your own body because you're not allowed to go around using your own body to punch people for no reason.

:lol: What in the ****? :lol:

No, it isn't like saying that. One is having your body violated and the other is violating a different person...
 
Yes. If you want to engage in an activity, there can be requirements for doing so.

Going to public school? Follow your state's vaccination requirements. Driving a car? Follow your state's driving requirements. What's the issue?

If somebody here has an issue it is you... I already follow all requirements.
 
If somebody here has an issue it is you... I already follow all requirements.

It's a general "you." Clearly, what I am saying is applied to the general population and not just yourself.
 
:lol: What in the ****? :lol:

No, it isn't like saying that. One is having your body violated and the other is violating a different person...

Starting an epidemic isn't violating a different person?
 
I think you have Measles confused with another disease.

The mortality rate for measles is very small, especially for those who are otherwise healthy and living in a developed nation such as ours.

Measles — United States, January 1–May 23, 2014

In fact, even in a place like the Philippines, the number of deaths is small compared to the number of suspected/confirmed cases, 32,000 cases with only 41 deaths. That is less than a 1% mortality rate. In fact, its about 0.13% mortality.

No deaths from at least 288 cases in the US in the first part of 2014.
 
In the 50s all children had to have their vaccinations up to date in order to go to public school.
That's just the way it was.

Today children are still required to go school ( between ages 5/6 to 16 ) or be home schooled.
Is that setting precedent that could lead the government to forcing other things upon it citizens ?

Requiring for public school and requiring for being alive in the US are two different things. Nuance is important here.
 
That's like saying you don't have sovereignty over your own body because you're not allowed to go around using your own body to punch people for no reason.

No its not.
 
The mortality rate for measles is very small, especially for those who are otherwise healthy and living in a developed nation such as ours.

Measles — United States, January 1–May 23, 2014

In fact, even in a place like the Philippines, the number of deaths is small compared to the number of suspected/confirmed cases, 32,000 cases with only 41 deaths. That is less than a 1% mortality rate. In fact, its about 0.13% mortality.

No deaths from at least 288 cases in the US in the first part of 2014.

Why only the focus on the death rates?

This isn't chicken pox. It's not just being itchy for a week.
 
...and I added another valid one. Want to keep going?

You want to have the benefits of society -i.e. public school - you follow the rules - vaccinate your kids.

Nothing in the constitution about public schools, as far as I know. I happen to think they are very important and part of what makes our country great; but they didn't really become big until the 1800s.

Mississippi has a 99+% vaccination rate for kids in kindergarten because they only allow medical exemptions, and few of those. Parents who don't like it can home school or go to private schools.
 
The nice thing about a secure boarder is you can limit immigration to only people who have been vaccinated.

Just sayin'.

The idea that a bunch of unvaccinated progressive Californians could have contracted measles from an illegal alien at Disneyland is... intriguing.
 
Just an FYI

If you did not health insurance you should have gone to the county health dept clinic.
Vaccinations usually cost between $10 and $20 depending on the county you live in.

In some states even if you have health insurance you can still get the reduced fee vaccinations at the county health dept.

Well worth the few extra miles.

That's more what I remember when we had to get our stepdaughter another vaccination when she went to school in California.
 
The nice thing about a secure boarder is you can limit immigration to only people who have been vaccinated.

Just sayin'.

The idea that a bunch of unvaccinated progressive Californians could have contracted measles from an illegal alien at Disneyland is... intriguing.

It could also have been contracted from a US citizen who went abroad and contracted measles there.

Or from a tourist coming to visit our country.
 
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