Re:Italy bans unvaccinated children from school
by bzbarsky on Monday March 18, 2019 @03:30PM
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> The alternatives in pretty much all cases are death.
Is this a serious claim about currently-required vaccines? Including the one for varicella, say?
Vaccines have a _lot_ of benefits; my kids are certainly vaccinated for all sorts of things (including varicella, though that was a bit of a tough call for me). But overselling those benefits with blanket claims like "the alternative to being vaccinated is death" is not a good way to get the "everyone should be vaccinated" position to be taken seriously.
Is this a serious claim about currently-required vaccines? Including the one for varicella, say?
Vaccines have a _lot_ of benefits; my kids are certainly vaccinated for all sorts of things (including varicella, though that was a bit of a tough call for me). But overselling those benefits with blanket claims like "the alternative to being vaccinated is death" is not a good way to get the "everyone should be vaccinated" position to be taken seriously.