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on point
(2,506 posts)Until vaccinated or they get the disease and have natural immunity
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)keep them all together and watch them all catch something.
Kind of like leper colonies.
benz380
(534 posts)FSogol
(46,401 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Coventina
(27,847 posts)riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Avalux
(35,015 posts)Vaccinations are a public health necessity, no one should ever have to pay for a vaccination.
CaliforniaPeggy
(151,895 posts)onecaliberal
(35,652 posts)Free is a good idea.
Johonny
(21,923 posts)hence why it is strongly recommended healthy people get vaccinated because it helps protect those that can't be vaccinated.
benz380
(534 posts)Avalux
(35,015 posts)Vaccinations, while an umbrella term, are made different ways for different types of pathogens. There are live vaccines, inactivated/killed vaccines, inactivated toxin vaccines, and conjugated vaccines.
Having a severe allergy to the vaccine components, being pregnant, and having an acute illness are reasons to not be vaccinated.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Endangering public health is no more a valid "choice" than driving down the wrong side of the road.
DemocratSinceBirth
(100,096 posts)More dangerous...I have a fighting chance if I see someone driving on the wrong side of the road coming. I have no idea if the person next to me has been properly vaccinated.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)not have hers up to date and was told that either get them or stay home. Her mother tends to be kind of lazy when it comes to doctors for her children. I was very pleased with the school.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)YarnAddict
(1,850 posts)I think children should be vaccinated for most diseases, but think a better avenue might be better education to persuade parents, rather than using the power of the government to enforce what should be parental decisions.
Ykcutnek
(1,305 posts)Agent_99
(1 post)The very thought of society being told that they will be forced to mandatory vaccines, reminds me of the witch hunts in Salem. For people who dont have vaccines, theyll be subjected to ridicule and accusations of being the ones to make other people sick. Diseases will always be a part of life vaccines or not.
Not only do vaccines have no guarantee that someone wont get a disease, the vaccines themselves can include such things as Aluminum, Formaldehyde, Phenoxyethanol, Polysorbate and Mercury. Im sure most people are more familiar with the dangers of Mercury, and yet it is still put in our vaccines.
I have had Formaldehyde exposure myself and it made me very ill. Why would I purposely let somebody inject these things in my body? My being injected with these foreign properties is not the answer to somebody else not getting a disease.
Being someone who has spent just about their whole life doing things to stay healthy, physically and mentally, I am feeling more and more like my rights to stay healthy are being taken away. I dont want to absorb smoke from someones joint, but yet Im subjected to it as I walk through the hallways of my apartment building. I have a right to not smell like it or have my family subjected to it. Yet the smoker doesnt seem to care about that. I also have the right to not subject myself to additional poisons, such as vaccines.
It is a rarity for me to be sick I take care of my health and immune system. Isnt this what we need to do in our lives instead of depending on a one time shot full of toxins? We are told that vaccinations are perfectly safe of course were told that. But as history has shown with many other things considered safe at the time, they are currently or have been part of law suits and considered now to be harmful. Some people have negative reactions immediately to these foreign substances, while other people experience it through time. So much time that they may not even realize what the origin is.
My subjecting myself to these vaccines is not the cure-all to another person not getting sick. But it could very well be the thing that makes me sick. And your comments about putting people on islands - I'd like to do that with the smokers and drug abusers. Some of us want to be truly healthy.