Get your children vaccinated or face 2,500 Euro fine: German health minister

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[–]roc 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Health is not just an individual choice when epidemic diseases are involved. If the vaccination rate falls too low we will go back a century and many people will die.

[–]FormosaOolong 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

this is hardly an epidemic disease, just hysterical propaganda.

[–]roc 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Measles is not an epidemic disease currently, because of the vaccination rate.

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Proof of that please.

[–]roc 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/255149/1/WER9217.pdf?ua=1

High population immunity is required to interrupt measles virus transmission due to its high infectivity. The herd protection threshold for measles is the highest of all vaccine-preventable diseases and varies in different settings, ranging from 89% to 94%.9 Mathematical modelling has estimated the herd protection threshold at 92–95% in the United States of America (USA)

Before the introduction of measles vaccine in 1963, major epidemics occurred approximately every 2 to 3 years and it is estimated that 30 million cases of measles and more than 2 million deaths occurred globally each year, and that by the age of 15 years, more than 95% of individuals had been infected with measles virus.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

[serious] Why can't we let people decide THEIR OWN fate? I think it is rather anti-diplomatic to force things on to people, even if they are good things. I think that if we force laws upon people just because we have "good intentions" it may lead to a day where the law will control how a person must live their life which violates free will. If I wanted to jump off a ship mid-ocean and drown just because I can and I chose it(and it does not hurt others,) I would want to be allowed to do so.

PS: I'm not suicidal; it is hypothetical.

PPS: I'm not anti-vax; I'm just trying to understand various perspectives.