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[quote=Anonymous]Nope.   I think you're failing to have missed vaccines is a moral issue. There are a lot of people out there who cannot have vaccines (newborns, those with compromised immune systems, with allergies to certain vaccine ingredients), and those people rely on herd immunity.  This means that a high enough percentage of the general population is vaccinated that a disease can't become widespread, and therefore they are unlikely to encounter it and are likely to be safe simply because they live  in a well vaccinated community.  When you refuse to vaccinate your child, you are stating that you feel that it is more important that your child avoid the imagined complications associated with vaccines  than for this population of people who cannot vaccinate to be safe. There are some documented side effects from vaccines, but the vast majority of people have no side effects, and the side effects that do exist are almost always very mild.

It is also a risk to my health, because vaccines are medicine, not magic. So having had them as a child does not protect me if my body happens to be one that can still catch a certain illness in spite of having been vaccinated.  Every body is different and there is no way to know without running into a disease how immune a given person is.  If an epidemic is going to start, it is going to start with people who are not vaccinated, which means that I will be on the front row to actually encounter that illness in full force.   If there is any chink in my immunity armor  then I  could also become ill.

I am actually pretty crunchy in most regards, and if a family said that they were going to have titers drawn after an initial vaccine rather than getting multiple booster shots just to be safe, then I would be 100% on board with that.  It is the families who feel that vaccines are some sort of conspiracy who have obviously not done their "research" based on any reputable well-run studies. The science is consistent. [/quote]

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