Wonktonodi on 14 February 2015
| Burek said: I am happy I live in a country where vaccination is mandatory, keeping my children safe from deadly diseases while they interact with hundreds of other kids on a daily basis in kindergarten and school. You cannot enrol your child in either of those institutions without vaccination, and the refusal to vaccinate carries a substantial monetary fine at first, followed by removing kids away from negligent parents should the refusal continue. However, as I live in a very popular tourist town frequented by millions of tourists (and hundreds of thousands of Americans) every year, it really is of great concern to know that there are people who would willingly choose to endanger others, akin to yelling Fire! in a crowded theater. |
While I'm disappointed in knowing my community had the worst rates on immunisation in the state even before(and still might) it was 84% of school children who were fully up to date in vaccinations. While quite a bit below the 95% that is recommended. It should give you an idea that by far most Americans do get there kids vaccinated.
On the positive note all this publicity has gotten the number of personal belief exceptions in the school district where I live to drop by almost half so now there are only 28 out of 1563 students not vaccinated instead of 54. Hopefully that number it's similar across my county and state and the personal exceptions continue to drop.
