RE: Abstaining from Vaccination should NOT be a right
February 27, 2012 at 12:13 pm
(This post was last modified: February 27, 2012 at 12:14 pm by Shell B.)
(February 27, 2012 at 12:09 pm)Phil Wrote: What if time. Your new neighbor moved in next door with his wife and three children. They just arrived from Somalia to pursue the American dream (boy are they in for a shock). Unknown to them, they were infected with smallpox before they left Somalia. Just greeting them gives you exposure and now you are in danger of contracting a full blown case of smallpox. You pass it on to the neighbor boy down the street that hasn't been vaccinated because he has Leukemia. The next day, a friend of yours has a minor car accident and is admitted to the hospital for a few days. You visit them in the hospital and are exposing many people to smallpox, a few of them get it and die. How do you feel about your choice not to vaccinate? Truth be told, if one of those you exposed to smallpox is a member of my family, you really would be better off dying of smallpox than letting me get my hands on you.
That would hardly be my fault. I do not have the option to be vaccinated for smallpox. Unless you are in the healthcare industry, are several years older than I am and/or served in the U.S. military, neither do you. Again, I would choose to take the vaccine. So, this is kind of a moot point. Sorry.
(February 27, 2012 at 12:11 pm)Phil Wrote: Smallpox was not eradicated. Eliminated from certain countries but not globally eradicated.
Agreed.
