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DemocratSinceBirth

(100,096 posts)
Fri Jan 23, 2015, 10:29 AM Jan 2015

Do you favor or oppose mandatory vaccinations for preventable diseases?


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Do you favor or oppose mandatory vaccinations for preventable diseases? (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2015 OP
Anti vaxers should be quarantined at home on point Jan 2015 #1
Heheh-- mandatory camps for anti-vaxers... TreasonousBastard Jan 2015 #2
Set up web cams so we can watch. n/t benz380 Jan 2015 #3
Anti-Vaxx Island! Coming this Fall to TLC. FSogol Jan 2015 #6
Anti-Vaxx Island FEMA Camp with Death Panels! RKP5637 Jan 2015 #9
Favor (nt) bigwillq Jan 2015 #4
This thread has the potential for greatness.... Coventina Jan 2015 #5
Favor but with exceptions for legitimate cases of children with auto immune diseases etc nt riderinthestorm Jan 2015 #7
Yes and they should be FREE for everyone. Avalux Jan 2015 #8
Good idea, and I agree. n/t CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2015 #10
Agree. Everyone should get the shots. onecaliberal Jan 2015 #12
I agree. HappyMe Jan 2015 #14
I believe some people can not be vaccinated for various health reasons Johonny Jan 2015 #11
Off to the island they go!!! n/t benz380 Jan 2015 #13
It depends on the vaccine type and the health of the individual. Avalux Jan 2015 #18
If someone's medically eligible, they should be required to get the appropriate vaccines, free. NuclearDem Jan 2015 #15
More dangerous... DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2015 #19
In some states children cannot enter school without the vaccinations. My great granddaughter did jwirr Jan 2015 #16
I know for a fact daycares here won't take unvaccinated kids. NuclearDem Jan 2015 #17
I hate "mandatory" anything YarnAddict Jan 2015 #20
Yes. And parents who refuse should be charged with neglect. nt Ykcutnek Jan 2015 #21
Mandatory - no! Agent_99 Feb 2015 #22
hello n/t orleans Feb 2015 #23

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
2. Heheh-- mandatory camps for anti-vaxers...
Fri Jan 23, 2015, 10:35 AM
Jan 2015

keep them all together and watch them all catch something.

Kind of like leper colonies.

Avalux

(35,015 posts)
8. Yes and they should be FREE for everyone.
Fri Jan 23, 2015, 10:41 AM
Jan 2015

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

Johonny

(21,923 posts)
11. I believe some people can not be vaccinated for various health reasons
Fri Jan 23, 2015, 10:44 AM
Jan 2015

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

Avalux

(35,015 posts)
18. It depends on the vaccine type and the health of the individual.
Fri Jan 23, 2015, 11:01 AM
Jan 2015

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)
15. If someone's medically eligible, they should be required to get the appropriate vaccines, free.
Fri Jan 23, 2015, 10:50 AM
Jan 2015

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

DemocratSinceBirth

(100,096 posts)
19. More dangerous...
Fri Jan 23, 2015, 11:06 AM
Jan 2015

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)
16. In some states children cannot enter school without the vaccinations. My great granddaughter did
Fri Jan 23, 2015, 10:53 AM
Jan 2015

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.

 

YarnAddict

(1,850 posts)
20. I hate "mandatory" anything
Fri Jan 23, 2015, 12:25 PM
Jan 2015

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.

Agent_99

(1 post)
22. Mandatory - no!
Wed Feb 18, 2015, 08:48 PM
Feb 2015

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.

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