I was a kid during the polio epidemic. Parents were ecstatic when a vaccine became available and we lined up to get it. The idea of not being vaccinated would have been looney tunes back then. Polio and smallpox vaccination clinics were standard in schools.
Vaccines are good. We should highly encourage them without a doubt. The question is whether the state should force kids to have medicine injected into them, such is exactly what we're talking any here.
Personally I would still feel safe if a few kids in my kid's class didn't have vaccinations as long as my kid did. Denying a kid their right to an education because their parents don't consent to their child undergoing a medical procedure the state wants them to have is a very serious thing.
The parents who don't vax their kids are stupid, but people have a right to be stupid and to consent to medical procedures.
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