Mandatory vaccinations

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No more drugs for my babies from these vaccine criminals

Fair enough. If you take all the money you’re going to save on vaccines, you could invest it carefully, and eventually save enough to buy some child-sized coffins.

Boru

What is painful is that Polio was months away from total eradication, but in 3 backwards countries rumours went around that the vaccine was a western conspiracy. Vaccination reduced and now its coming back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine

Polio vaccination programs have received resistance from some people in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria (the three countries as of 2017 with remaining polio cases). Some Muslim religious leaders believe that the vaccines are secretly being used for sterilization of Muslims.[47] The fact that the CIA organized a fake vaccination program in 2011 to help find Osama Bin Laden is an additional cause of distrust.[90] In 2015, the WHO announced a deal with the Taliban to encourage them to distribute the vaccine in areas they control.[91] However, the Pakistani Taliban is not so supportive. On 11 September 2016, two unidentified gunmen associated with the Pakistani Taliban, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, shot Zakaullah Khan, a doctor who was administering polio vaccines in Pakistan. The leader of the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar claimed responsibility for the shooting and says that the group will continue to keep doing these kinds of attacks. This resistance to and skepticism of vaccinations has consequently slowed down the polio eradication process within the three remaining countries.