Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
They need to make it mandatory for public health reasons, and by "mandatory" I mean enacting criminal penalties for failing to do so.
Your "individual rights" go out the window when your personal decisions affect the health of the mass population.
Those refusing to vaccinate should be given the choice to either get it done, or GTFO of the country and live where it's not required.
The fact that measles and whooping cough are making a comeback in the 2010s is outrageous.
Yeah, I agree. People want to cry about individuals choices and freedom, which I am all for, but not when it puts the rest of the general public in danger.
I mean, its essentially the same reason people can't smoke anywhere they want.
I have a couple of anti-vaxxers in my FB news feed, and man they are fucking brutal. The way they skew facts and have no concept of how to comprehend data & statistics is mind blowing.