There is much talk about vaccines and whether they should be mandatory or parent-option. This article in The Federalist is an example.
Normally I prefer optional but in the case of vaccination, the choice affects us all. If sufficient numbers of people avoid vaccination, yearly waves of disease will be the result.
While vaccines provide substantial protection, they are not 100% proof against catching the target disease. So your decision not to vaccinate increases my likelihood of catching a disease for which I have been vaccinated.
Thus, society has an interest in getting a maximum number of its residents vaccinated, making us all safer. Are there risks associated with vaccination, certainly. Are they smaller risks than getting the disease, likewise certainly for all but a tiny few.
COTTonLINE endorses vaccination and the DrsC practice what we preach in this regard.
