So the new anti-Vax mantra is "My body, My choice"?

[jwirr]

75. This arguement is not about flu shots which everyone knows only work when they get the right

strain.

We are talking about childhood vaccinations that do work for a lot of people. I was born in 1941 and in that era almost all of us got these diseases with differing side effects. Many of us like me did not have bad side effects but when one did get them they were life threatening in that either you died or you were disabled for life. We did not have any rights to protection because there was none. We did not call that freedom.

Today it is the unvaccinated who are getting these diseases and passing them along to others - for example infants too young to get vaccinated yet. They are bringing back diseases that were virtually eradicated until recently. The anti-vaxers are using what they call their rights to take the rights of other people away. That is not freedom.

Also here is something else to think about. That couple who does not vaccinate their child when he/she is small runs the risk of having that child infected when he/she gets older when these diseases are more likely to have harmful side effects. What freedom did the child have?