12-12-2009, 12:16 PM
To use a, IMHO, better example than h1n1 and that is TB. To get into school you must have a TB test. You can not "opt out" unless you go get a chest Xray instead.
TB averages in the US is down to 4.2 per 100,000 with Hawaii holding the nation's highest case rate at 9.6 per 100,000 population. It was twice the national average.
Would I want to be exposed to TB? No, sorry, I dont.
Here's where I see the issue and why I used TB as an example - the person who doesn't want a TB test of any kind, thats fine. But what about my rights? Don't I have the right to a healthy environment free from TB?
So my thought is IF you feel strongly about the vaccines, then stay home. I think by trying to assert every right, you also take other peoples rights away.
TB averages in the US is down to 4.2 per 100,000 with Hawaii holding the nation's highest case rate at 9.6 per 100,000 population. It was twice the national average.
Would I want to be exposed to TB? No, sorry, I dont.
Here's where I see the issue and why I used TB as an example - the person who doesn't want a TB test of any kind, thats fine. But what about my rights? Don't I have the right to a healthy environment free from TB?
So my thought is IF you feel strongly about the vaccines, then stay home. I think by trying to assert every right, you also take other peoples rights away.
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me."
-Dudley Field Malone
-Dudley Field Malone