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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
Did you read the post? She has no issues with Vaccinations per se, but rather the government mandating them. She has issues with government mandates because of things like forcing people into WHEN they must be administered, and the dangers of government mandates in general. She thinks that they are given too young and without enough time in between them. She totally believes in Vaccinations, just not so young and not so many at once.
The point regarding public shaming is that there is a HUGE difference between people expressing their right to freedom of speech and opposing opinions freely, or in choosing to exercise their right to associate or not associate with people freely... As opposed to the state using force to compel people to vaccinate on the schedule that the state decides.
I can tell my neighbors that they are morons for not vaccinating, and I can keep away from them and keep my kids away from them also. but that is a big difference from sending some guys with guns to their house it force them to do it.
Use of force is world's away from people speaking and associating freely.
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Of course I read the post. I read that your wife does not agree with what the government determines as a safe window for inoculation in infants. She chose to make her own judgment call based on the information she had available to her. What is different than that and her deciding what vaccines she feels are "safe enough" and those that might not be? It is a very, very fine line if you ask me. She made a mother's choice based on her medical training as well as her practical experience. Shouldn't everyone have that same right? If a kid can't go to school because he or she wasn't inoculated then that is pretty much the same thing as a gun to one's head if you ask me.
I am not anti vaccine and my kids actually went to Waldorf schools where apparently 1 in 3 parents choose not to immunize, which is not true from my experience btw (most kids in fact had been widely vaccinated against a myriad of things and the school recommended vaccinations). As parents, we chose to do some vaccines but not others, like whooping cough. When the kids caught whatever we kept them from other kids, and that is what my mom did too. She pushed us out to catch mumps and measles but when we got them then we didn't get to go out. To this day, it is so rare for me or my kids to come down with anything that maybe there is something to it.
Every one I know that gets vaccines for flu every year gets a nasty flu.
