• scripthook@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I disagree. As a parent it’s you’re right on if your child should or shouldn’t get vaccinated. Just like you have a right to reproduce. And unfortunately stupid people reproduce.

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      11 months ago

      No. Your rights end where other’s rights begin. You and your kids don’t have the right to get other kids, especially immunocompromised kids who can’t get vaccinated, sick because of your bad choices.

      This is not a freedom issue, this is a public health issue. Allowing unvaccinated kids (who are able to be vaccinated) into a school is risking others’ lives. You do not have the right to do that as a parent any more than Typhoid Mary had the right to keep spreading typhoid fever.

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      11 months ago

      Fuck that noise. Failing to vaccinate your kids puts my kids at risk. You have no right to endager the lives of people around you.

    • chulo_sinhatche@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      But you don’t have a right for your child to endanger someone else’s child. Obviously there is a blurry line there e.g., if my kid has a PB&J he might endanger the welfare of a child with nut allergies. Are we going to ban nuts? Probably not, because not enough kids can get sick from them to warrant that kind of action.

      Everyone’s kids can get measles. Or covid. Or polio. Or -insert preventable disease here-

      Therefore everyone’s kids should get vaccinated. I get that our government does shady shit sometimes, but people without any scientific background take that and then believe that vaccines are some huge conspiracy.

      It’s not.

      Science proves they work and do not harm you belong a tiny margin of fringe cases where people have severe side effects (like less than 0.1% of ppl).

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        11 months ago

        Actually, at school parents do get notified if someone in their child’s class has a peanut allergy, in which case the children aren’t allowed to have PB&J at lunch.

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      11 months ago

      If they’re going to public school, their decision affects all the other students. They don’t get to choose.