Do you favor or oppose mandatory vaccinations for preventable diseases?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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[on point]

1. Anti vaxers should be quarantined at home

Until vaccinated or they get the disease and have natural immunity

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Heheh-- mandatory camps for anti-vaxers...

keep them all together and watch them all catch something.

Kind of like leper colonies.

[benz380]

3. Set up web cams so we can watch. n/t

[FSogol]

6. Anti-Vaxx Island! Coming this Fall to TLC.

[RKP5637]

9. Anti-Vaxx Island FEMA Camp with Death Panels!

[bigwillq]

4. Favor (nt)

[Coventina]

5. This thread has the potential for greatness....

[riderinthestorm]

7. Favor but with exceptions for legitimate cases of children with auto immune diseases etc nt

[Avalux]

8. Yes and they should be FREE for everyone.

Vaccinations are a public health necessity, no one should ever have to pay for a vaccination.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. Good idea, and I agree. n/t

[onecaliberal]

12. Agree. Everyone should get the shots.

[HappyMe]

14. I agree.

Free is a good idea.

[Johonny]

11. I believe some people can not be vaccinated for various health reasons

hence why it is strongly recommended healthy people get vaccinated because it helps protect those that can't be vaccinated.

[benz380]

13. Off to the island they go!!! n/t

[Avalux]

18. It depends on the vaccine type and the health of the individual.

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]

15. If someone's medically eligible, they should be required to get the appropriate vaccines, free.

Endangering public health is no more a valid "choice" than driving down the wrong side of the road.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

19. More dangerous...

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]

16. In some states children cannot enter school without the vaccinations. My great granddaughter did

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]

17. I know for a fact daycares here won't take unvaccinated kids.

[YarnAddict]

20. I hate "mandatory" anything

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]

21. Yes. And parents who refuse should be charged with neglect. nt

[Agent_99]

22. Mandatory - no!

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 don’t have vaccines, they’ll 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 won’t get a disease, the vaccines themselves can include such things as Aluminum, Formaldehyde, Phenoxyethanol, Polysorbate and Mercury. I’m 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 don’t want to absorb smoke from someone’s joint, but yet I’m 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 doesn’t 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. Isn’t 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 we’re 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.

[orleans]

23. hello n/t