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Just because there haven’t been new vaccine mandates in your lifetime doesn’t mean they’re a new or unprecedented idea. I say new because anyone who attended a
by mplanchard 5y ago
Just because there haven’t been new vaccine mandates in your lifetime doesn’t mean they’re a new or unprecedented idea. I say new because anyone who attended a school has very likely already been subject to vaccine mandates for diseases we don’t see as much anymore, so it’s only the introduction of a new mandate that presumably may seem unprecedented.
- c7DJTLrn 5y agoIn the UK, I've never had to prove vaccination of any kind. From my perspective, these "mandates" have never existed before.
- boulos 5y agoGood to know! [1] > Vaccines offered through the national immunisation programme in the UK are not mandatory. Which is probably why measles is not/no longer eradicated in the UK: > In August 2019, the WHO’s European Regional Verification Commission for Measles and Rubella Elimination (RVC) determined the UK had lost its measles elimination status. But still useful to get a non-US perspective. (It's easy to forget how policies differ, worldwide) [1] https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9076/ https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...
- swiley 5y agoMandated vaccines for a bad cold are new. This isn’t polio. Not to mention the vaccines are orders of magnitude more deadly than all the previous ones combined.
- bigcorp-slave 5y agoPolio is actually a very good analogy. Only in about 0.5% of cases does it affect the nervous system. Only in at most 30% of that 0.5% is it fatal. In 70% of infections it is asymptomatic. COVID is actually very much like polio. And the vaccines aren’t deadly - this is just misinformation.
- odshoifsdhfs 5y agoJust because you haven't been to jail for abortion in your lifetime, doesn't mean it is new or unprecedented idea. So let the Texas law run free and expand to other states. Before Roe vs Wade it was illegal, so there is a precedent to make it so again right? Is this the logic? Same with slaves, it used to be ok and legal, so no worries about me keeping some haitians working at home and whip them if they misbehave. Remember, there is precedence after all.
- bostonsre 5y agoHow is a requirement that children get vaccinated to go to school anything like what you listed? Are you arguing that those vaccines are crap and that polio would be awesome to have back?