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Unfortunately many vaccines (TB for instance) are only effective in children, and children don't exactly get to make enlightened decisions about whether or not
by mattmaroon 16y ago
Unfortunately many vaccines (TB for instance) are only effective in children, and children don't exactly get to make enlightened decisions about whether or not they get a vaccine. By the time they're old enough to decide for themselves it's too late.
It wouldn't be right to ostracize people simply because their parents can't tell the difference between a stripper and a doctor and took medical advice from Jenny McCarthy.
- gte910h 16y agoThe point isn't to absolutely protect against every disease. Vaccinations don't do that. The point is protect against walking disease vectors. Once they get all the vaccinations they can, they're much like you or I: fully vaccinated.
- isleyaardvark 16y agoIt would be even more unfair to increase the risk of exposure to other children. I think there is a role for public shaming and peer pressure with respect to vaccination.
- mattmaroon 16y agoThere is no law requiring vaccinations. Perhaps there should be, but you really can't shame people for exercising their right to control what goes into their body, no matter how dickish it may be. And you REALLY can't shame them for their parents being idiots.
- gte910h 16y agoYou most certainly can shame them, and as long as they get the vaccinations they can, even the ones unlikely to be effective, they've done enough in my eyes to be let in areas I can control attendance to. And missing one vaccine because their parents are idiots isn't the point. Its the walking infection vectors who are the people who have absolutely no vaccines in them in are the issues.
- ugh 16y agoSure you can shame people for exercising the right to control what goes into their body. It is just as much your freedom to criticize them as it is their freedom to not vaccinate. Just because something is not illegal doesn’t mean you can’t shame it. (I agree that you can’t shame people for decisions their parents made.)
- mynegation 16y agoThere may be no laws, but at least in Ontario, Canada no up-to-date vaccination means no enrollment to the school/kindergarten.
- chollida1 16y agoNot true. http://www.ottawa.ca/residents/health/conditions/id_prevention/immunization/requirements_en.html#P76_6906 http://www.ottawa.ca/residents/health/conditions/id_preventi... Any parent decline for religious reasons.
- Qz 16y agoThe stripper comment is unnecessary and rather derogatory.
- LogicHoleFlaw 16y agoIt is however, hilarious.
- tokenadult 16y agoI agree with you that the comment is derogatory, but derogation is deserved by people who go to Jenny McCarthy for medical advice on how to ensure the safety of their children.
- Qz 16y agoDeride her for what she says, not by misogynistic comments that insult more women than just her.
- maxawaytoolong 16y agoCalling a playboy model a stripper seems more descriptive than misogynistic or derogatory.
- mattmaroon 16y agoYeah. Let the record show I've got nothing against strippers, just people who take medical advice from them. Except I suppose maybe the ones who are just doing it to pay their way through med school...