{"id":49403,"date":"2015-01-28T14:44:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T14:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/28\/to-what-extent-do-we-punish-the-unvaccinated.html"},"modified":"2015-01-28T14:44:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T14:44:13","slug":"to-what-extent-do-we-punish-the-unvaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/28\/to-what-extent-do-we-punish-the-unvaccinated.html","title":{"rendered":"To what extent do we punish the unvaccinated?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Choosing not to vaccinate your kids can be, in aggregate, deadly for kids who cannot be vaccinated. Unfortunately, that lack of hard, direct, 1:1 linkage (person X is opted out of vaccinations, person Y gets sick, or worse) provides cover for folk to dodge the results of their choice.<\/p>\n

The problem with the solution sought by the father in this story is that the people most directly affected by keeping kids out of school whose parents have chosen not to vaccinate them are the kids themselves. Well, sure, I guess the parents would be stuck with the question of how the heck to get their kids educated, but the kids would be impacted, too.<\/p>\n

There is some irony, though, in the anecdote about the father being warned not to send any peanut products to school because there were kids there with allergies. How would we treat a parent who said, "Well, I think peanut allergies are overblown, and it's my belief that little Tommy needs a big PB&J for lunch every day and a sack of peanuts at snack time in order to grow up healthy, and, by God, that's my right as a parent to give him those things"?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nTo Protect His Son, A Father Asks School To Bar Unvaccinated Children<\/a><\/span>
\nA 6-year-old can’t be vaccinated against measles because he is recovering from leukemia. He faces a higher risk because parents at his California school have chosen not to vaccinate their kids.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Choosing not to vaccinate your kids can be, in aggregate, deadly for kids who cannot be vaccinated. Unfortunately, that lack of hard, direct, 1:1 linkage (person X is opted out of vaccinations, person Y gets sick, or worse) provides cover for folk to dodge the results of their choice. The problem with the solution sought … Continue reading “To what extent do we punish the unvaccinated?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24928,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/29\/vaccinate-your-kids-part-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":49403,"position":0},"title":"Vaccinate Your Kids, Part 2","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 29-Dec-11 3:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"No, really. 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