Compulsory MMR vaccination?

[Aemilius Paulus]

As far as I'm concerned, its negligence if you don't.

Hmmm, interesting. Why don't we make a law saying you can get a waiver for the vaccines, but you will be prosecuted for negligence if your child dies ? Let them take chances.

And yes, Hosa could not be more correct. People are complacent because they forget the past; the history; the horror.

Honestly, unlike all the other movements I have seen, this recent anti-vaccine one is the only one I cannot comprehend. Can anyone explain me why those parents risk their children contracting grave viral diseases to avoid that minuscule chance of autism, which is not even certain? I mean seriously, what are those parent's arguments ?? I am lost here... Usually parents lose all common sense, rationality, and logic just to protect their kids, so why the noise now? Or is it because they believe autism to be a more clear and present danger?

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Hmmm, interesting. Why don't we make a law saying you can get a waiver for the vaccines, but you will be prosecuted for negligence if your child dies ? Let them take chances.

And yes, Hosa could not be more correct. People are complacent because they forget the past; the history; the horror.

Honestly, unlike all the other movements I have seen, this recent anti-vaccine one is the only one I cannot comprehend. Can anyone explain me why those parents risk their children contracting grave viral diseases to avoid that minuscule chance of autism, which is not even certain? I mean seriously, what are those parent's arguments ?? I am lost here... Usually parents lose all common sense, rationality, and logic just to protect their kids, so why the noise now? Or is it because they believe autism to be a more clear and present danger?

Because they believe measles can be cured with a simple herbal remedy.

[Aemilius Paulus]

Because they believe measles can be cured with a simple herbal remedy.

Sarcasm I sense...

But yes, that is yet another thing exasperates me in today's popular medicine/science. People are obsessed with "natural", "herbal", "remedies". I watch in disgust as my supposedly intelligent parents shell out and binge on it. Sure, that stuff is useful, but honestly, it does better job of cleaning out one's pockets than actually curing anything. An exorbitantly expensive placebo at best. Well, y parents were not much science nerds as I am