Vaccination exemption in CA, personal down, medical up

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Even if it means the potential death of that person's child?

How much potential though? No parent declines vaccinating their kid while knowing there's a big risk they might die from it. Instead they think the risk of the vaccine itself is greater than the risk of the child catching a deadly disease and dying from it.

The information is there and is provided to them repeatedly in their life. The only reason their kid isn't likely to get sick is because enough other people vaccinate that diseases are spread around. Enough people don't vaccinate and we have a real problem. They are putting lots of kids at risk.

I also find it offensive on a historical level. These are diseases that wiped out millions of people and caused untold suffering, but privileged white housewives think they know more about it and yet never look at the opposing argument.

I also just find it so morally outrageous, because so many people around the world would love to be able to vaccinate their kids. So I have no sympathy for them, even as somewhat of a libertarian, this is a no brainer. If your kid dies, or another kid does because of your stupidity, you go to prison.

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I've heard them argue the exact opposite actually. Because small pox is so rare now, they think the chances of contracting it and dying from it is less than an adverse reaction to the vax.

Not saying they are right or that I agree, just presenting their view point and why I don't think they should be held criminally responsible for passing it up.

With the numbers that are skipping the immunization, small pox is once again a threat. Leaving your kid unprotected from that threat should be just as much child neglect as leaving them in a hot car on a summer afternoon without water.

You guys are both wrong about smallpox. It only exists anymore in a laboratory. Nobody gets the smallpox vaccine, not since the late 70s and there are 0 cases of smallpox in the world. It's not "so rare" nor is it "once again a threat"

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/smallpox

The last naturally occurring case of smallpox was reported in 1977. In 1980, the World Health Organization declared that smallpox had been eradicated. Currently, there is no evidence of naturally occurring smallpox transmission anywhere in the world. Although a worldwide immunization program eradicated smallpox disease decades ago, small quantities of smallpox virus officially still exist in two research laboratories in Atlanta, Georgia, and in Russia.

We wiped it from the face of the planet because of forced vaccinations.