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It 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 va
by isleyaardvark 16y ago
It 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.