Lennart Thornros <[email protected]> wrote: Where I grow up there was no laws that we should be inoculated. >
I do not know where you grew up, but in the U.S. the first law mandating vaccinations was passed in 1855, and vaccinations become mandatory for public school attendance in 1922. Education was compulsory; home schooling was not allowed, and most people went to public schools, so this was tantamount to mandating vaccinations. http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/government-regulation After the improved Sabin oral polio vaccine was licensed in 1962, the government told everyone to get one. All adults and children lined up at designated schools and other institutions and took it. No questions asked. In my opinion no questions should have been asked; this was the right thing to do. (What I distinctly remember about this was that we reached the head of the line, they gave me a sugar cube and I thought, "What, no shot? That's a relief!") Some people nowadays do not even inoculate against tetanus, which is as prevalent now as it ever was, because it does not need a human host. This is playing with fire. If a baby or child gets a severe case of this disease it will horrible. I think parents should be forced to inoculate, except when there is a valid medical reason not to. I don't care about the parents' rights; I care about the children's rights. - Jed
