Parents who don't vaccinate their kids should be charged with child endangerment

[srican69]

and either fined or thrown in Jail.


Parents get into trouble for far less - like allowing kids to walk home from park.

[marym625]

1. But they don't get in trouble

For having a gun accessible that the child picks up and shoots himself or another child. So why would the government protect society from measles?

5 infants in Palatine, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, have measles. All from a daycare center there

[alc]

2. which vaccinations?

and when a pharma company comes out with a new vaccination, how hard will they need to lobby to get it on the mandated list? (http://www.nbcnews.com/id/16948093/ns/health-childrens_health/t/texas-governor-orders-std-vaccine-all-girls/#.VNTfiPklCrc)

I agree that certain vaccinations need to be mandated. But I'm sure I disagree with pharma CEOs on which ones should make the list and I want to make sure any new laws don't make the CEOs happy.

[NCTraveler]

3. No, they should not.

I can see how you get to that point considering how we have been taught incarceration incarceration incarceration from an early age. You cannot do this with all of the disinformation out there. Many of the people who receive and embrace this information aren't rich. You are talking about fining or incarceration some people with more limited access and time to research solid information. Every single one of them has a reason to distrust the government and corporations. Clearly I am not saying all are poor in any way. Many anti-vaxxers are very intelligent and adapt to society just as well as any of us. But that still leaves many of them on the lower economic scale. Fine or jail them? Not a chance I would support that. It would be akin to charging those who deny climate change having a human element with crimes against humanity. We imprison enough people in this country. It is not the answer for everything. Education is. We are going on a decade or so where vaccine skeptics have had a voice. Often due to lies and being published before thorough vetting. That level of seriousness is now being taken to task. I would suggest the trend of those getting vaccinated is going to take another turn in the coming years. The small percentage who do not vaccinate will start becoming even smaller. The current debate is doing more good than some think. When you can find more scientists willing to claim man plays no role in climate change than those willing to claim any link at all between vaccines and autism, the right side is winning the debate. In both issues actually. This current trend is after some serious shenanigans that are the result of a decade of lies that were given a voice. Those lies have been fully discounted. The trend will change for the positive.

Edit to add: If you are against kids parents being arrested because their child walked to the park alone I suggest you fight it. Not use it as an excuse to imprison more. The link between the two makes no sense at all. It is very strange that is used as a metric of justification for imprisonment.

[dissentient]

4. For that to work, there would have to be a law that Americans are required to be vaccinated

And I know that, considering all the du threads about this topic may have been misleading, because there is no such law.

If you are a natural born citizen you don't have to get vaccinated.

But if you are an immigrant and trying to enter the U.S. - then you have to and its required.

[srican69]

5. is it because natural borns have natural immunity?

just being facetious.

[YarnAddict]

6. This is something I was wondering about

A lot of RWNJs are blaming the immigrant children for some of these diseases, and I just figured that they all would have been vaccinated when they got here. But, someone pointed out that many of them were "unaccompanied," and without a parent to give permission, could they be vaccinated? And without medical records, or patient history, would any ethical medical person give a vaccination? How would the caregiver know if a child has an egg allergy, or some other condition that would make vaccination risky?