What about vaccines for nuisance illnesses where the vaccines have potentially severe consequences? For example, the rotavirus vaccine has been known to cause intussusception in some small but non-negligible fraction of recipients. This is sometimes fatal, and generally involves surgery. Rotavirus typically causes diarrhea, which can be dangerous, but generally isn’t if monitored closely.

Do you call CPS on parents that refuse that one?

“The only vaccine that is missing from many state mandates is the rotavirus vaccine.”

- Vaxopedia.org

Anecdotally, when we were vaccinating our kids, rotavirus was presented as optional or not crucial. I don’t remember the precise wording the doctor used, but I recall it was the one we skipped. A big factor in that was our kids were not in any kind of daycare.

> Failure to vaccinate should result in intervention by CPS and the parents placed on a watch list.

Failure to vaccinate is a big issue, but I'd rather have anti-vaxxers than government taking kids away from parents because the parents refused a medical intervention.

I would rather the government step in than allowing anti-vaxers to keep polio, measles and whooping cough around.

Frankly the government steps in on a lot of things, like when a parent is caught driving drunk with their kids in the back of the car.

What about daily beatings? Anti-Vaxxers put not only their children but many people in the general population at serious of death and should be sent to prison.

We don’t let people drive drunk for good reason, vacations are far more critical.