"Sick Privilege

[Antonio the Sixth]

Oh come on Snowstalker, this is dumb even by your standards.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Oh come on Snowstalker, this is dumb even by your standards.

honestly i agree with him in this case. refusing to vaccinate your children definitely falls under the umbrella of child abuse.

Look, I'm not saying that's the right thing to do, but it's not like every child who doesn't get vaccinated is going to catch smallpox and die. As long as it's only 2-5% of the population that asks for exemption, it's really a non-issue and certainly doesn't warrant this hyperbolic language.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Oh come on Snowstalker, this is dumb even by your standards.

honestly i agree with him in this case. refusing to vaccinate your children definitely falls under the umbrella of child abuse.

Look, I'm not saying that's the right thing to do, but it's not like every child who doesn't get vaccinated is going to catch smallpox and die. As long as it's only 2-5% of the population that asks for exemption, it's really a non-issue and certainly doesn't warrants this hyperbolic language.

The problem with that statement: Let's say Jenny McCarthy moves into a town, she gets measles and luckily for this town, everybody is immune thanks to legal vaccinations, except for one person. Let's say her name is Ashley. Now Ashley relies on community immunity (everybody else is immune from the disease so she cannot get it) because she's allergic to the vaccine. Well at the "Stirring the Pot" book signing, Ashley comes into contact with Jenny, and she is infected with measles, and eventually dies.

The only reason Ashley was able to stay healthy was because all people were immune, until Jenny McCarthy came with her autism psuedoscience and led to her death.

How does this affect parents? Well their children must be vaccinated in order for them to stay healthy, for others to stay healthy, and it's completely irresponsible for these parents to recklessly hurt their children just for "religious purposes" or whatever. Unless a child is allergic to a vaccination, every child needs to be vaccinated (not just 95%) in order to protect everyone from these infectious diseases.

That's a legitimate point, but considering that the likelihood of such a situation occurring any given year is probably below 5%, I don't think it's worth making such a big fuss about it (OK, I know that would mean that a kid would die every 20 years or so, and that's horrible, but come on).