Just for fun, consider if people with small-pox should be segregated from others who may be vulnerable to the viruses.

more and more people are receiving the flu shot. I doubt any honest study has ever been done as to whether they benefit from it. I have had no flu for 30 years and no injection. Hopefully the ' science' is not fraudulent like that of many climate ' scientist'.

There is no logical reason why both parents and children should not be vaccinated.
The informed decision has been carried out by people more qualified than they are.
You do not have freedom when the health of others is concerned - same as you do not have the freedom of speech to hell "FIRE" in a crowded place.
The children may be perfectly healthy but be a carrier of many often fatal diseases. They cannot be kept in a bubble and must at some stage come in contact with others bringing those others into harms way.

//Just for fun, consider if people with small-pox should be segregated from others who may be vulnerable to the viruses.//

Of course they should be quarantined. But why entertain hypotheticals about the only contagion we've managed to eradicate?

Should we quarantine typhoid carriers? Or would that be too much of a violation of their civil liberty to go around infecting everybody else?

//Although I support the science of vaccination in principle, my position is that the quality of vaccines are not safe or effective enough to be mandated.//

99.99% isn't good enough for you?

Do you really think that the alternative - the return of diseases like polio, measles, diptheria etc. - will be more 'safe and effective' than the vaccines that prevent them?

Stop doing drugs, mate.

"I (runner) have had no flu for 30 years" Runner, it goes to show, even the bugs have their minimum standards as to where they will reside.

Issy, Smallpox is a devastating disease caused by the variola virus. In 1980, following an historic global campaign of surveillance and vaccination, the World Health Assembly declared smallpox eradicated – the only infectious disease to achieve this distinction."

Unless the Americans decide to unleash their stockpile of the smallpox virus (germ warfare) we don't have much to worry about on that score.

ttbn, "Parents objecting to vaccinations are idiots who should have their children removed from them if they don't comply." Generally agree, they are not all idiots, some are simply lazy, others are misguided, and yes some are idiots.

"Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the Bible prohibits ingesting blood and that Christians should not accept blood transfusions or donate or store their own blood for transfusion. The belief is based on an interpretation of scripture that differs from that of other Christian denominations."

Its not just the pro bug mob who are idiots, we have a buch of religious fundo's who are just as stupid.