Comment Re:freedom 2 b a moron (Score 1) 1051
Eventually we're all out in public together and at work, but it's still not the same as the petri-dish that are kindergarten or elementary education environments
I suspect you will find few private schools or day cares that don't have similar vaccination requirements.
My intention was about home-schooling. I would agree many private schools likely have similar requirements.
Still, outright bans on attending school without vaccinations should not be the rule. The "herd" effect works there
My question is that allowing people without vaccinations begins to weaken the herd effect. And I think we're seeing that result now. You need something like 90-95% for some diseases linky. Whooping cough being one of them.
There just isn't any valid justification for not getting the vaccinations prior to school starting.
While it is controversial to conclude that the vaccines caused the condition
It's not controversial....its explicitly FALSE. There is no link or evidence supporting this.
I don't believe it is controversial to consider vaccination 14 shots at 2 years old extreme.
You know what isn't controversial? Not allowing 10s of 1000s of innocent children to die from a multitude of diseases that, until quite recently, were no longer a threat to 1st world countries over the objections of people uniformed and spouting FUD.
We simply didn't have whooping cough or measles or mumps outbreaks for the last multiple decades. Now, after a decade or two of people not vaccinating, they are back.
I'm sure as hell not willing to pay to clean up some CO2 demon which science says is largely imaginary.
Wow, totally missed this. The science claims CO2 effects on future climate is largely imaginary? just wow. we're done here, you truly are a denier.
but their pay got slashed by about 30%.
A somewhat predictable result. However, it would be a teachable moment in how much overtime they are expecting from you.
If we consider subsidizing power to the poor a valuable social service, then we should state that bluntly
We do. It's called regulated franchises so that the power companies are required to damn near everyone regardless of *where* they happen to live. If you left it up to the cost effectiveness then rural places wouldn't get the infrastructure installed.
We also do so by providing government assistance to those who are having trouble paying bills. There are many, many plans in place around the country that do this specifically.
As I said it's larger societal issue as to how we deal with things going forward. If there are systemic problems causing growing numbers of people to be unable to afford basic utility rates...that's something that has to be dealt with because just cutting people off hurts everyone in the long run.
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