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I don't consider myself anti-vax (my children and I are fully vaccinated) but I do question things and I prefer to make my own decisions regarding what is best

I don't consider myself anti-vax (my children and I are fully vaccinated) but I do question things and I prefer to make my own decisions regarding what is best for my family. What are the risks of a particular vaccine? What are the risks to my child if they get the disease? The answers to those vary per vaccine and could result in some parents deciding to not vaccinate their children for one or more vaccines.

mattigames 8y ago
If you don't vaccinate all you become is a liability for society, and therefore you should lose your right to live in such society, becoming a liability for everyone else and protecting it under the guise of being "your own decision" means as much as protecting it under the guise of "i want to help overpopulation by killing as many kids as I can", that is: Nothing at all.
driverdan 8y ago
> I do question things and I prefer to make my own decisions regarding what is best for my family. Medical researchers know more than you about which vaccines are safe and should be administered. > What are the risks of a particular vaccine? What are the risks to my child if they get the disease? For all of the regularly scheduled vaccines the answer is the risks of not vaccinating greatly outweigh those of receiving it, unless you have an allergy to something in that particular vaccine.
- existentialhalt 8y ago
  "For all of the regularly scheduled vaccines the answer is the risks of not vaccinating greatly outweigh those of receiving it, unless you have an allergy to something in that particular vaccine." This is only true for healthy people who have had no reactions to vaccines, nor have their family members. There are people who have life-long debilitating reactions. What is being proposed is to make it impossible to opt-out if you have a personal or family history with negative reactions to vaccines. Medical exemptions are impossible to get except for the very wealthy who can afford the appropriate testing to prove it's an issue.
  - berbec 8y ago
    No, what is being proposed is removing facebook-made-me-a-doctor exemptions. No one is going to make an immunocopromised child take a vaccine. This is complete FUD. Any doctor who can legitimately diagnose a reason for it can fill out the medical exemption form.
  - driverdan 8y ago
    > This is only true for healthy people who have had no reactions to vaccines, nor have their family members. That's what I said. Allergy, reaction, same thing.
mattigames 8y ago
More importantly even if the government does nothing I -and many more- would do everything in our power so our kids avoid your kids like the plague, not even breathing the same air when possible, I don't want my kids being affected by your "decisions" and your criteria of what vaccines are good and which are bad and therefore there would be a fragmentation of society, "all-vaccines-required schools" vs the rest.

mattigames 8y ago

If you don't vaccinate all you become is a liability for society, and therefore you should lose your right to live in such society, becoming a liability for everyone else and protecting it under the guise of being "your own decision" means as much as protecting it under the guise of "i want to help overpopulation by killing as many kids as I can", that is: Nothing at all.

driverdan 8y ago

> I do question things and I prefer to make my own decisions regarding what is best for my family. Medical researchers know more than you about which vaccines are safe and should be administered. > What are the risks of a particular vaccine? What are the risks to my child if they get the disease? For all of the regularly scheduled vaccines the answer is the risks of not vaccinating greatly outweigh those of receiving it, unless you have an allergy to something in that particular vaccine.

existentialhalt 8y ago
"For all of the regularly scheduled vaccines the answer is the risks of not vaccinating greatly outweigh those of receiving it, unless you have an allergy to something in that particular vaccine." This is only true for healthy people who have had no reactions to vaccines, nor have their family members. There are people who have life-long debilitating reactions. What is being proposed is to make it impossible to opt-out if you have a personal or family history with negative reactions to vaccines. Medical exemptions are impossible to get except for the very wealthy who can afford the appropriate testing to prove it's an issue.
- berbec 8y ago
  No, what is being proposed is removing facebook-made-me-a-doctor exemptions. No one is going to make an immunocopromised child take a vaccine. This is complete FUD. Any doctor who can legitimately diagnose a reason for it can fill out the medical exemption form.
- driverdan 8y ago
  > This is only true for healthy people who have had no reactions to vaccines, nor have their family members. That's what I said. Allergy, reaction, same thing.

mattigames 8y ago

More importantly even if the government does nothing I -and many more- would do everything in our power so our kids avoid your kids like the plague, not even breathing the same air when possible, I don't want my kids being affected by your "decisions" and your criteria of what vaccines are good and which are bad and therefore there would be a fragmentation of society, "all-vaccines-required schools" vs the rest.