It would be even more unfair to increase the risk of exposure to other children. I think there is a role for public shaming and peer pressure with respect to vaccination.

There is no law requiring vaccinations. Perhaps there should be, but you really can't shame people for exercising their right to control what goes into their body, no matter how dickish it may be. And you REALLY can't shame them for their parents being idiots.

Sure you can shame people for exercising the right to control what goes into their body. It is just as much your freedom to criticize them as it is their freedom to not vaccinate. Just because something is not illegal doesn’t mean you can’t shame it. (I agree that you can’t shame people for decisions their parents made.)

There may be no laws, but at least in Ontario, Canada no up-to-date vaccination means no enrollment to the school/kindergarten.

Not true.

http://www.ottawa.ca/residents/health/conditions/id_preventi...

Any parent decline for religious reasons.

You most certainly can shame them, and as long as they get the vaccinations they can, even the ones unlikely to be effective, they've done enough in my eyes to be let in areas I can control attendance to.

And missing one vaccine because their parents are idiots isn't the point. Its the walking infection vectors who are the people who have absolutely no vaccines in them in are the issues.

The point isn't to absolutely protect against every disease. Vaccinations don't do that. The point is protect against walking disease vectors. Once they get all the vaccinations they can, they're much like you or I: fully vaccinated.

The stripper comment is unnecessary and rather derogatory.

I agree with you that the comment is derogatory, but derogation is deserved by people who go to Jenny McCarthy for medical advice on how to ensure the safety of their children.

Yeah. Let the record show I've got nothing against strippers, just people who take medical advice from them. Except I suppose maybe the ones who are just doing it to pay their way through med school...

Deride her for what she says, not by misogynistic comments that insult more women than just her.

Calling a playboy model a stripper seems more descriptive than misogynistic or derogatory.

It is however, hilarious.