They’re your kids. You can do what you want with them, right? Actually, no. The wonderful American tradition of individual liberty stops well short of the entitlements claimed by the parents opposed to vaccinations who have contributed to the alarming measles outbreak centered in California. There's a reason why people with leprosy were exiled. There's a reason why people who contracted tuberculosis were shut up in institutions. It was so they wouldn't infect anyone else. And those diseases are pretty much gone from our society. So maybe we should exile non-vaccinated children who get sick so they can't hurt anyone else. I'm beginning to think that the no vaccine crowd just don't give a damn about anyone but themselves. I hear them saying "What if it hurts my child?" Well, what about all the other children? What if their child hurts another by infecting them? Will they do anything to help...or just walk away? What about polio, will they not vaccinate against that. Why don't they think about the children that cannot have the vaccine because of medical reasons, what happens to those children, who could be in life threatening conditions if contracting these preventable diseases. This is a public health issue, not a parent issue. Unfortunately, this trivialization of liberty is not just an isolated phenomenon but a mushrooming national problem. In the most recently completed session of Congress, legislators introduced more than 20 bills invoking “liberty” and more than 150 in the cause of “freedom”.
You shouldn't smoke, it's bad for you, but it’s your right to do so if you want to. Amazing how these dumb liberals don't get that concept, the concept of personal freedom. Additionally the dumb hippies are the ones not getting their children vacations. What state is the worst for vacations? Washington. What state is the best? Mississippi. I support your right to be an idiot. No one has ever claimed any vaccine is 100% safe. What the medical community agrees on is without modern vaccination our population would be 1/2 what it is as millions would have continue to die. Vaccinations DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM! 100's of millions of people have been vaccinated over decades and decades. Autism is a recent development and not matter how many times Jenny McCarthy quotes some quack, it will never end up being true. Obviously something is causing this at these new alarming rates but it is not vaccinations. I say it can be attributed to the gross amounts of chemicals that in our food that wasn't in it 20 years ago. Now they want to point the finger at something, someone, anything and vaccines become the target? It’s bad; something that can prevent a child's death? Insanity! Small pox is eradicated from the world and is "NEVER" going to come back. Does anyone know why? We must vaccinate the whole world against measles. Sounds impossible? Nothing is impossible if we put our money where it is needed the most. If we can do it for small pox we can do it for viral diseases. Let's "NOT" forget we are increasingly becoming part of global unit day by day. Once they are all eradicated we don't need to vaccinate anyone anymore "EVER", just like we don't vaccinate anyone for small pox anymore.
