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The statistics don't lie in this instance - they just don't. Thousands upon thousands of cases of polio (and other diseases) reduced through vaccinations to very few. How can that be argued against? There may be the odd case where there MAY be side affects, but, sad though that is, it is statistically negligible. I think it should be law to vaccinate your child.
My dad was involved in a car accident when I was little. He wasn't wearing a seat belt and as the car flipped he was thrown into the passenger seat whereupon the roof on the driver's side caved in. He survived - yet had he been wearing a seat belt he would have died. True story. But, that doesn't suddenly mean that I (or he) suddenly think that no one should wear seat belts and that they are potentially dangerous contraptions. It is rightly against the law not to wear seat belts in many countries. For me - this analogy works and the stats are probably similar.
The statistics don't lie in this instance - they just don't. Thousands upon thousands of cases of polio (and other diseases) reduced through vaccinations to very few. How can that be argued against? There may be the odd case where there MAY be side affects, but, sad though that is, it is statistically negligible. I think it should be law to vaccinate your child.
My dad was involved in a car accident when I was little. He wasn't wearing a seat belt and as the car flipped he was thrown into the passenger seat whereupon the roof on the driver's side caved in. He survived - yet had he been wearing a seat belt he would have died. True story. But, that doesn't suddenly mean that I (or he) suddenly think that no one should wear seat belts and that they are potentially dangerous contraptions. It is rightly against the law not to wear seat belts in many countries. For me - this analogy works and the stats are probably similar.
