We got a letter from the government telling us our daughter should be vaccinated-we refused

[Ms. Toad]

64. Sorry to hear that -

My response was not to discount the serious nature of TB,

It was to point out what most people in this thread don't seem to realize: Neither they, nor their children, nor the vast majority of children walking around in public are vaccinated against TB.

The TB rate in the US is low enough that it is not a medically recommended vaccination. The same goes for Sweden. For children, the vaccine is not recommended (WHO standards) unless they live in an area where TB is endemic, or have an immigrant parent from an area where TB is endemic. Since that doesn't apply to the US (where parent immigrated from), the recommendation was medically inappropriate.

Despite that - people are trashing the OP for refusing government, but not medically, recommended vaccination, without any apparent understanding TB is not a routine vaccination either here, or in Sweden, and that they themselves have almost certainly not been vaccinated against TB.