California Father Asks School To Bar Unvaccinated Children

[seldomseensmith]

64. Not stupid and uneducated, mendacious and unethical.

In my experience it is often true that the anti-vaxxer, among other things, is of the prissy, angelic type for whom the trivial concerns of the "little people" pale before an almost criminally insane sense of entitlement.

As with all drugs, vaccines can produce really nasty things like anaphylaxis in people who are susceptible to the drug itself or one of the chemical compounds used to deliver it. In exchange for that, we get "herd immunity" to things like whooping cough and polio.

That being said, let us consider then what sort of snivelling, souless coward you would have to be to acknowledge all these risks and insist that everyone else pay the price of a very small risk of complications while you yourself benefitted from the immunities of the mass. It would be even worse if, say, your benefitting from the sacrifices of "ordinary" people actually increased the chances of the "herd immunity" failing and causing the return of potentially fatal diseases we would have permanently vanquished were it not for the the willful ignorance of the entitled.

As awful as it is to consider I'm beginning to believe that old amish practice of "shunning" might have a legitimate application here.