Comments on: Coming to a Shopping Mall Near You http://washingtonindependent.com/1792/coming-to-a-shopping-mall-near-you National News in Context Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:40:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: lrandall http://washingtonindependent.com/1792/coming-to-a-shopping-mall-near-you/comment-page-1#comment-1563 lrandall Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.washingtonindependent.com.php5-9.websitetestlink.com/?p=1792#comment-1563 Amazingly, it appears there is an unrelated case today in an unvaccinated 23-month-old from Milwaukee. Who also went to daycare and exposed everybody there. The Long Island child was too young to have received measles vaccine yet, but the Milwaukee kid certainly should have. It wouldn't be so bad if the unvaccinated-by-choice only affected adults who have rejected vaccines. But this isn't true for multiple reasons. First, the kids of anti-vaccinationists shouldn't have to pay for their parents' neuroses. Second, some people either can't get certain vaccines because of medical contraindications or won't experience the usual immune reaction that makes the vaccine take. Those groups surely shouldn't be made to suffer for the irrational choices of others. Amazingly, it appears there is an unrelated case today in an unvaccinated 23-month-old from Milwaukee. Who also went to daycare and exposed everybody there. The Long Island child was too young to have received measles vaccine yet, but the Milwaukee kid certainly should have.

It wouldn’t be so bad if the unvaccinated-by-choice only affected adults who have rejected vaccines. But this isn’t true for multiple reasons. First, the kids of anti-vaccinationists shouldn’t have to pay for their parents’ neuroses. Second, some people either can’t get certain vaccines because of medical contraindications or won’t experience the usual immune reaction that makes the vaccine take. Those groups surely shouldn’t be made to suffer for the irrational choices of others.

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