Un-Vaccinated kids come from a variety of sources.
1) Their parents cant get their **** together to keep them vaccinated, mostly because they are poor or just bad parents. This is by far the largest group. We lose sight of this in the entire antivax controversy. We should basically force these kids to get vaccinated, and make it much, much easier and cheaper to get vaccines.
2) Religious exemptions. Very small group. Seems reasonable to OK it, but I would require onerous paperwork to discourage people in group #1 to claim they are Christian Scientists or something.
3) Medical exemptions. These kids are fine if everyone else is vaccinated. Small group. Let them attend school.
4) Anti vaxxers who are just plain stupid, or like to watch Dr. Oz and Jenny McCarthy and read Joseph Mercola. Vaccine or homeschool. And a mandatory visit from DCFS to check if they are sane enough to raise children.
Group #1, indeed all of this, is easy enough to handle, any kid who shows up the first day of school without a vaccination record or a medical exemption gets a needle in their arm. No exceptions.
Yourself for being stupid.
Nice list. I think that about covers it.Un-Vaccinated kids come from a variety of sources.
1) Their parents cant get their **** together to keep them vaccinated, mostly because they are poor or just bad parents. This is by far the largest group. We lose sight of this in the entire antivax controversy. We should basically force these kids to get vaccinated, and make it much, much easier and cheaper to get vaccines.
2) Religious exemptions. Very small group. Seems reasonable to OK it, but I would require onerous paperwork to discourage people in group #1 to claim they are Christian Scientists or something.
3) Medical exemptions. These kids are fine if everyone else is vaccinated. Small group. Let them attend school.
4) Anti vaxxers who are just plain stupid, or like to watch Dr. Oz and Jenny McCarthy and read Joseph Mercola. Vaccine or homeschool. And a mandatory visit from DCFS to check if they are sane enough to raise children.
Ok, I seriously belly laughed at this.Yourself for being stupid.
Group #1, indeed all of this, is easy enough to handle, any kid who shows up the first day of school without a vaccination record or a medical exemption gets a needle in their arm. No exceptions.
There are no cancer patients in public school? There are no immune compromised kids in public school? I remember one of my classmates being treated for leukemia when I was in 7th grade. He depended upon everyone being vaccinated around him and thus there being herd immunity. Not a problem back then because we did not have a bunch anti-vax idiots getting their medical advice from celebrities, arguments from ignorance, and thoroughly discredited studies.
Frankly the school requirement is simply the stick used to bring up vaccination rates to the levels needed to safe guard public health. We adopted two girls from China, they could not come to the United States until they were current on their vaccinations. There is a reason for that. In my opinion these idiots that want the freedom not to vaccinate should pack it up and move to a country with a public health system more conducive to their personal views like DR Congo or Haiti.
Yep. But the Conservatives whine about the cost, so that's out.
Depends on which vaccines. The government shouldn't have the ability to force all vaccines across the board, just specific ones... like the old school ones.
Though, I think there is some muddiness to be found in the matter of the government forcing medical procedures. That most people agree with the law doesn't change the fact.
I think the CDC should be able to add different required vaccines to the basics, based on the current situation. You never know what's out there this year.
It's insane not to force this kind of thing. Back when ebola was a big deal, if someone who had the disease said they refused medical treatment, they were going to go walking around in public spreading it to unsuspecting people, they'd have been thrown in the back of a truck and put in quarantine whether they liked it or not. Welcome to reality. The public's health is more important than the individual's rights.
Depends on which vaccines. The government shouldn't have the ability to force all vaccines across the board, just specific ones... like the old school ones.
Though, I think there is some muddiness to be found in the matter of the government forcing medical procedures. That most people agree with the law doesn't change the fact.
Vaccinated for what? You can't make such a general question. Depends on what diseases and multiple vaccinations should NOT be given at once - and not close together.
In this case public health interests override ridiculous religious or personal beliefs. I never said anything about getting rid of medical exemptions, obviously you cannot give someone who is allergic a vaccine. In order for your youngest cousin to be safe, the maximum number of people possible have to have the vaccine.