Should parents take a more active role in designing their children's immunization schedule?
Absolutely! Children are dealing with more regulations at school period, most of it is designed for the mind...testing, testing, testing. But, what about their bodies? Granted, children now deal with pressures that we didn't have to growing up. Perhaps, that's due to evolution and the fact that babying our children proves nothing, other than the fact that we don't think they're as intelligent as they really are...our fault! However, children are still children. I think it's crucial for parents to utilize every tool necessary to protect their children's health. I'm not totally against immunization, especially in public schools; it comes with the territory, if you ask me. Granted, I do believe that parents should regulate and a great way to do it is to spread out their immunizations to ensure that they're children's bodies are best equipped to handle the immunizations.
Would you support making the vaccination programs "cumpulsory"?
No, I don't believe that people should do anything they think will not benefit their bodies and I think that this is a great example. I don't think that most parents will choose not to immunize their children, so I don't think that it's much of an issue to begin with. What if we didn't know about those parents who chose not to immunize their children? Would we notice more outbreaks? Would there be more outbreaks? Could just believing that shot will prevent an outbreak be enough? What about placebo immunizations? It would be unethical, but I'm interested on seeing what the effect of just feeling like you're protected in these situations would be.
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I'm with you on this for sure. I am more concerned that reoccurrence of illness can be a concern however.
One situation that makes this a prevalent concern for me is the conversation I had when I went to get my TB test. I asked why this was required. Apparently, the health agencies of many western countries thought this epidemic was under control. They backed off of their virulent testing methods and, low and behold, TB popped up worse than before. What made it worse was that the new strains were often medication resistant.
I know that this is a bit off topic of vaccinations, but it was an example of something re-emerging. I still think compulsory vaccination is a narrow minded solution for this concern. I believe compulsory education for parents would go further.
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