(September 7, 2015 at 12:03 pm)Aractus Wrote: Immunisation is about preventing outbreaks, not individual cases. So this whole argument that parents are putting their own children at greater risk is not correct - they are putting the community at greater risk - but only if a significant number of others in the community also doesn't get their children immunised. You guys seriously don't even seem to understand that in this thread - and that I think is what gets a lot of people confused in the first place. They don't see an individual benefit for their child, because there isn't one, and therefore they question whether they really need it - which they don't if the community has a 95% immunisation rate.
But the communities are falling well below 95% because of individuals.
I get what you are saying, but we cannot make people give a shit about, or even be able to see, the bigger picture and the community as a whole.
Letting people make this choice as individuals is causing the herd immunity to drop into the mid 80's%, I think where I live it is now 83% immunized, WELL below what is safe for us as a group.
People need to realize that the good of the community IS for the good of their individual child. So....that makes me not get your argument. I immunize my child toprotect her, but also to protect the kid next door with bone marrow disease who cannot get immunized. If people can't see that, then it needs to be forced on them. Period.
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