You have no right to treat my child as a Farm Animal who is required to provide Herd Immunity.
I am not an Anti-vaxxor, I am a parent whose child had a life-threatening heart defect and a sensitivity to vaccinations.
Jeff was born with a heart defect and required Open Heart Surgery at 3 days old. He barely survived the surgery and the 2nd life-threatening illness he survived was his reaction to his first round of vaccinations.
I sat with his doctor and we carefully examined the vaccinations and we considered the risks and rewards of each vaccination. We carefully selected the ones we determined that were worthy of the risk.
We discussed his immune system, the likelihood of him being exposed, his ability to survive the disease and we did our best to make the best decisions knowing each decision we made was potentially life and death.
You have no right to force me to justify these decisions to a school secretary or even the principal, often with an impatient line of parents standing behind me. You have no right to an explanation.
Vaccinations are NOT risk-free, they all bear some risks. You have no right to ask one parent to potentially sacrifice their child’s health for the herd.
Those who are damaged by the vaccination are indeed outliers, but they do in fact happen.
People with a healthy immune system are also outliers from having long-term consequences from Measles, Chicken Pox, and other conditions our society has decided to immunize against.
You have no right to exclude my child from an education system that you force me to pay for.
Each parent should review the CDC recommended schedule of vaccinations and they should have the right to decide which vaccinations to select based on risk and reward. That parent owes NO ONE an explanation.
Not all vaccinations carry the same set of risks and not all diseases are the same, not all immune systems are the same and many of your arguments are hyperbolic and not mathematically sound.
You have no right to put my healthcare decisions in the hands of school personnel and to force me to justify these decisions to this organization while I am forced to pay for it.
Encourage me with statistics that are real, give me safer products, but you have no right to force and blackmail me into submission.
You have no right!
the reason this topic is on my mind is WA keeps trying to slip mandatory vaccinations in as a requirement for attending public schools. If you want a safe school. Go start a private school and make vaccinations a requirement, in addition, I am disgusted by recent decisions to shut down discussion and data for parents to use to make these choices. The benefits of vaccination should sell its self like any other safety issue
I reject being treated or treating others as herd animals. Promote vaccinations, fight legislation.
