Jerry, I don't know what you are talking about with blacks and Indians and operations & shots.
Since you didn't specify, I think that point is irrelevant.
Vaccines are for youngsters and also anyone older, to ward off the diseases that we are trying so hard to make a thing of the past... smallpox, chicken pox, measles, mumps, whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, shingles, pneumonia, etc. They protect the individual AND the general population. Most of these diseases are highly contagious.
Parents subscribing to ignorant religious practices or plain old ignorant beliefs should be re-educated about these horrible diseases and how vaccines work. One parent refusing to participate in vaccination programs could be singularly responsible for spreading the infection to an entire class at school, or an entire grade school, an entire church congregation, or sports team...in other words, basically anybody and everybody that comes in contact with an infected person... or even through touching, say, a handrail or doorknob touched by an infected person. It's like wildfire. It spreads.
No parent should be allowed to physically harm their child, let alone the general population! By not "believing in" vaccines being essential for public health, such parents are committing dangrous acts of cruelty and possible deaths. Their stupidity is unbelievably harmful to all of us.
Note: I purposely do not include Covid vaccines in this discussion because there is evidence that Big Pharma, Fauci, labs, governments, and universities like Harvard are all proving to be liars on the subject from the get-go. Unfortunately, the situation is reinforcing the beliefs of those who are against vaccinations in general.
Yeah, I don't know, Jerome. I agree that no kid in America should be exposed to the threat of a potentially deadly or debilitating illness. But all of the anti-vaxxers I know genuinely believe that vaccines pose a greater risk to their children's health than any benefit that they might provide. They would say they are not exercising their RIGHTS, per se, but their responsibility to ensure the welfare of their children. Which might be easy to dismiss...but...consider communities of color, especially older generations of Blacks and Native Americans, who have more than one example of how the "experts" told them the needle jab or operation was for their own good...but ended up getting screwed over. I would be pretty loathe to force any of those people to undergo any procedure they weren't eminently confident was actually to the benefit of their health.
It's always been a balancing act, of course, and we need to strike a balance, is what it comes down to, and where that line gets drawn and -- more importantly -- how it gets drawn -- is vitally important.
Jerome is right.
Jerry, I don't know what you are talking about with blacks and Indians and operations & shots.
Since you didn't specify, I think that point is irrelevant.
Vaccines are for youngsters and also anyone older, to ward off the diseases that we are trying so hard to make a thing of the past... smallpox, chicken pox, measles, mumps, whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, shingles, pneumonia, etc. They protect the individual AND the general population. Most of these diseases are highly contagious.
Parents subscribing to ignorant religious practices or plain old ignorant beliefs should be re-educated about these horrible diseases and how vaccines work. One parent refusing to participate in vaccination programs could be singularly responsible for spreading the infection to an entire class at school, or an entire grade school, an entire church congregation, or sports team...in other words, basically anybody and everybody that comes in contact with an infected person... or even through touching, say, a handrail or doorknob touched by an infected person. It's like wildfire. It spreads.
No parent should be allowed to physically harm their child, let alone the general population! By not "believing in" vaccines being essential for public health, such parents are committing dangrous acts of cruelty and possible deaths. Their stupidity is unbelievably harmful to all of us.
Note: I purposely do not include Covid vaccines in this discussion because there is evidence that Big Pharma, Fauci, labs, governments, and universities like Harvard are all proving to be liars on the subject from the get-go. Unfortunately, the situation is reinforcing the beliefs of those who are against vaccinations in general.
Yeah, I don't know, Jerome. I agree that no kid in America should be exposed to the threat of a potentially deadly or debilitating illness. But all of the anti-vaxxers I know genuinely believe that vaccines pose a greater risk to their children's health than any benefit that they might provide. They would say they are not exercising their RIGHTS, per se, but their responsibility to ensure the welfare of their children. Which might be easy to dismiss...but...consider communities of color, especially older generations of Blacks and Native Americans, who have more than one example of how the "experts" told them the needle jab or operation was for their own good...but ended up getting screwed over. I would be pretty loathe to force any of those people to undergo any procedure they weren't eminently confident was actually to the benefit of their health.
It's always been a balancing act, of course, and we need to strike a balance, is what it comes down to, and where that line gets drawn and -- more importantly -- how it gets drawn -- is vitally important.
We live in a time when it’s considered patriotic to flaunt one’s ignorance cuz I’m ‘merican and I’ve got my rights.