Having exhausted the thimerosal issue, I don't really think the anti-vaccine people have much going for them. I don't totally love the idea of mandatory vaccination -- these are advanced processes that we'll never completely understand all the potential angles of -- but I love it a lot more than the results of not vaccinating. My sympathy only goes so far on this one, and it doesn't extend to pseudoscientific bullsh**t.
If some disease is dangerous enough as a contagion, it is either mandatory vaccinations or mandatory quarantine. The latter of course would be hideously expensive, so that leads to the former being put in place, if the need is compelling enough. Nutters cannot be allowed to infect us all.
By the way, the laws when it comes to tuberculous when diagnosed are quite Draconian, as it is
now. I know that now from personal experience with a client, who had the "honor" of being the first white woman to be diagnosed with the disease in Newport Beach in a very, very long time. No deviations from the legal mandatory protocol were going to be tolerated at all, and were not.
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