Abstaining from Vaccination should NOT be a right

[Melanbee]

Sit still how?I am perfectly aware of how diseases/viruses and bacteria's are transmitted. If you're saying people should be vaccinated to prevent transmission of the disease, then by default if you're vaccinated you prevented transmission. Correct? So why does it matter to you if someone who is not vaccinated exposes themselves to a disease? I am just curious as to what your rationale is.

Sitting still biologically speaking. Lets say you vaccinate for a specific strain of a specific pathogen (which is what we do). Group A gets vaccinated, group B does not. Group b is now a testing ground for that pathogen, allowing it the time and resources required to potentially overcome whatever defense we've established against it (and it has to, adapt or die). We're back to square one. Or, we can leverage an ounce of common sense and take the twenty seconds and pin-prick we get by going the route of complete vaccination. Smallpox being a great example. It is the only infectious disease that we have ever been able to lay claim to eradication from, and this was not achieved by willy nilly, "come in if you like" vaccination programs. Still, we're terrified of modified strains of smallpox being weaponized. We're terrified of this because it is terrifying and easily within the realm of probability, (perhaps even eventuality). When we talk vaccination we're talking about an attempt to eradicate something that has been preying upon us, successfully, for hundreds of thousands of years at the very least. So my vaccinations will protect me, fantastic, but how far down the line are we going to have to reinvent the smallpox vaccine because some complete nutjob felt they had an inalienable right to say no to public health policy?

I like where you went with this. Now this argument I can understand and even get on board with. We have seen this happen with MRSA and VRSA...a virus will always figure out a way to grow stronger and mutate to such a degree that the current treatment of choice is no longer effective.
Your smallpox example...absolutely true. So, which of our current diseases are causing an outbreak in the same fashion that smallpox did? I haven't seen anything within the past few weeks from the CDC but that doesn't mean it couldn't happen.