Vaccines are a public health issue. Not a freedom of choice issue. - ThreadSky

drlindseyfitz.bsky.social • 20 days ago

Vaccines are a public health issue. Not a freedom of choice issue.

And this is why vaccinations must be mandatory for all children who are able medically to be vaccinated, with zero religious or personal exemption.

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momoduff.bsky.social•19 days ago

The problem is that the parents can always find some quacky doctor to claim the child is medically unable to have vaccines.

bonniepatterson.bsky.social•19 days ago

I kind of think that the Measles Mom having passed along her genes 5 times is also a public health issue.

bradleybutts.bsky.social•19 days ago

"Terrible mom who had five children relieved she only has to feed four now"

gajastar.bsky.social•19 days ago

I can't imagine having several kids and then just being like 'eh, I have a spare' when one flat out dies. Or being one of her kids and realizing mom sees us as FULLY disposable.

thomasvye.bsky.social•17 days ago

Very true. These idiot antivaxxers threaten the security of herd immunity that many vulnerable people who *can’t* choose rely on.

jcmacc.bsky.social•19 days ago

"Only 20% of my children died" is one of the more extreme "glass half full" reactions I've ever seen.

kincaid.org.uk•19 days ago

I am a wishywashy personal liberties liberal right up until vaccines and then I'm "ok, fine, don't vax your kid. But then your plague rat don't go to school. The pool. scouts. The play park. Youth club. Etc. Etc"

If you're a danger you get *shunned*

bjorsater.bsky.social•19 days ago

Sure, but I would still suggest you educate people of the benefits (as in all other areas-put your effort into educating) rather than force them against their uneducated beliefs and fears!It will only create more resistance in the long run…(1/2)

barttels2.bsky.social•18 days ago

As we have seen.

bjorsater.bsky.social•19 days ago

…making people feel helpless. Democracy as a well functioning society is not a quick-fix!

bjorsater.bsky.social•19 days ago

”…as well as a well functioning…”

drlindseyfitz.bsky.social•19 days ago

I agree with all this.

thedogguyjim.bsky.social•19 days ago

Her "choosing" not to vaccinate her kids was not choice - it was an adult who knew or should have known she was acting in a way likely to result in serious injury or death. That is criminal. THAT is Negligent Homicide. Prosecute.

seeadler.bsky.social•20 days ago

Yes. You are not free to choose to endanger the lives of the children around you.

deesnay.bsky.social•19 days ago

People today don't realize that, before vaccination, 1 out of 4 children died in their first year, and only 1 out of 4 made it to the adult age. Parents had to have 4, 5, 10 kids if they wanted to have a chance of having grand-children.
So what the antivaxxers promote is just this.