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Respectful Insolence: Using religion to avoid vaccination, revisited

argotnaut rated 12 months ago
From the page: "It would be one thing if these parents lived in isolated communities, where they could exist without exposing others to the dangers due to their foolish choice not to vaccinate, but such is not the case. The children of these parents are going to schools with your children, and ...

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argotnaut rated 12 months ago
From the page: "It would be one thing if these parents lived in isolated communities, where they could exist without exposing others to the dangers due to their foolish choice not to vaccinate, but such is not the case. The children of these parents are going to schools with your children, and their children can and do serve as a nidus for outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease. This is because no vaccine is 100%, and those who fail to develop immunity are protected by "herd immunity," the indirect protection of susceptible members of the population by the presence of a high percentage of immune individuals. "