Blog04 Apr 2006 10:51 am
Another excellent post from Dr Crippen imploring people to face the implications of non-adherence to immunisation.
It’s my view that here immunisation is concerned, herd immunity being a commons, the indivualised concept of infomed choice is a nonsense. If we are going to pretend that parents are going to engage with the evidence such that they make a rational decision, the least we can do is give imformation about the collective consequences. Frankly, I think some sort of coercion is required; no single drop of rain believes it is to blame for the flood.
I think I need to order one of these:
April 5th, 2006 at 2:50 pm
tough stuff. on the one hand, i don’t believe that all immunisation is good, on the other, i want what’s best for my children. i don’t buy the ‘flu vaccine’ and other quickly-hobbled-together types of fixes. i take as little medicine as possible, personally, but that’s just because i’m crazy.
if the main concern is that the government will start to medicate at will through the bread, or whatever, though, what’s to stop them from doing it even IF the general population takes its meds like good little boys and girls?
deep reaching implications in both scenarios, i think.