Should not vaccinating your child be a criminal offence?

[The Grand Nudger]

There is a lot of misinformation on the internet that references “studies” that have been debunked my science. There is also the fact that science isn’t infallible and has history has shown what science believe to be good for you today, could later turn out to be bad for you. I believe in this case vaccines have proven they work, and they are good science, but their effectiveness means that the risk is much lower to be exposed and therefore need the vaccine is lower as well.

This paragraph is diminished by the following paragraph (RE outbreaks).  The threshold for the breakdown of herd immunity isn't nearly as low as some imagine it to be..and it varies from disease to disease....and that's just counting the diseases that herd immunity protects against, which isn't all of them.  There are already states that have fallen well below safe herd immunity thresholds for a variety of preventable diseases.  The risk is not lower, today, it's higher than it was a decade ago - therefore the need for specific vaccines is higher. 

This is directly due to the success of anti-vax campaigns who..when they can't outright convince a parent that vaccination is bad for their kid..settle for the notion that they don't need it.   It isn't, and they do.  

  
Where is the line in the sand on freedom?

Where it's always been.  
 

Should they get a tax break? Is that fair? 

I pay taxes for services I don't use as well, so yeah..it's fair.
 

Should we charge anti-vaxxer parents with assault or murder if they cause an outbreak? 

No. 
 

Is it moral to punish a parent for doing what they believe will help even if the end result hurts their child?

Probably, but I think you're angling for "legal"..in which case..definitely..we do it all the time.

I don’t know of a single parent who hasn’t felt like they’ve made some bad decisions in raising their children. It’s not like we received a handbook, and even if we did no one would have time to read it. As it requires more and more time to simply “get by” economically, how much of this is societies fault, and how much is simply a case of not having the time and money to do your due diligence?

 IKR, I missed my youngests vax schedule, the health dept called and notified me.  I took him to the health dept.  Took all of 20 minutes and didn't cost me a dime. Fair trade, I think, for immunity to diseases that have a history of killing kids like it was their job. If a parent doesn't have the time or money for that...vaccination is going to be the least of that kids worries growing up.