On Vaccination

[bigscary]

I propose a federal law with two effects:
1: Create a right of action for any harm done to a vaccinated or pre-vaccination (with affidavit from guardians stating prior intent to vaccinate) person by a disease commonly vaccinated against caught due to an initial exposure from a non-vaccinated person.
2: Classify any deaths due to such diseases as homicides.

Comments

[moonlightalice.livejournal.com]

Oh I've been saying this since I first heard about those assclowns. I can't wait for the lawsuits to roll out.

[slackwench.livejournal.com]

What prompted this?

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Alternatively, declare that anyone refusing vaccination is attempting to commit biological warfare on American soil, therefore can freely be held by the government without charge or trial until the torture enhanced interrogation makes them confess to their obvious terrorist connections.

Your method would probably be more effective, my method makes for better black comedy.

[ebartley.livejournal.com]

You'd want to exempt non-vaccinated children under the recommended age of the vaccination in question. Also, there are people with a legitimate medical reason to be unvaccinated (eg allergy to eggs) that you'd want to exempt, in some cases just for specific vaccinations. They've got problems enough not getting vaccinated, and are suffering enough from the reduction in herd immunity -- I wouldn't want to see them penalized by liability for not getting the vaccines which are unsafe for them.

Personally, I'd exempt non-vaccinated children up to a certain multiple of the recommended age of the vaccination in question. If the parents' guts are telling them that the vaccinations are hard on the kids and they want to spread them out so that the kid is getting one vaccination every six months instead of two vaccinations every four months, or whatever, I'd accept that as parental responsibility -- I don't want doctors, or federal regulators, to have dicatoral control over the kids' vaccinations.

Heck, if the parents buy into the autism nonsense and decide to *delay* vaccinations until their kids are four, and meanwhile homeschool the kids so they're less likely to get sick, I think their premises are screwy but I don't think we should be stopping them. Remember, science does get it wrong some of the time. (And ... if one of their kids has a head size showing likely autism, maybe keeping the kid away from anything theorized to cause autism until he's well past the age at which autism symptoms manifest is a good call.)

All that aside, I'd like to see firmer vaccination requirements. I'd prefer to start by eliminating the personal belief and religious exemptions for vaccinations, then by making vaccine status at six a requirement for regularly attending *any* large institution (that is, including day care, private school, and religious school -- not just public school.)

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

A time window in which to get vaccinated, and exemptions for actual known medical conflicts are obvious exemptions I should have noted.

As far as choosing to vaccinate very late and keeping the child at home until then, well, you're permitted to maintain hazards within your own home, but you're still liable for harm to others. Yes, this might require quack-heeding parents to have a stack of releases by their door, but that's the price they pay.

[moonlightalice.livejournal.com]

Agreed, eliminate personal belief and religious exemptions. If you want to keep your kid locked in a cage in your basement forever, fine. But if he/she so much as goes shopping with you, vaccinations should be required.

It sickens me that there are so many places in the world where children and adults die of preventable diseases, and those autism nutjobs here can't see how incredibly lucky they are to have a national program in place that saves so many lives and so little cost.