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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lane3 who wrote (8994)3/19/2001 1:03:04 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Immunizations of kids protect the health of both the kids getting the immunizations and those with whom they come into contact. They prevent outbreaks. With seatbelts, the health of only one person is involved. Brains splattering off the pavement do not infect bystanders. The other sub-factor here is that the immunizations are for kids so there's an element of protecting kids from their neglectful parents. The seatbelt laws I'm talking about are the ones that apply to adults. Different dynamic there.

Even with the immunizations you get stupid rules that cause more harm then good. Like when children are required to get vaccinated against hepatitis B. The health risk of the vaccination while relatively small might be greater then that of the child getting hepatitis B. If the parents resist the idea of getting the child vaccinated against the disease child services might take the children away from the parents.

"In October in Utica, New York, the parents of 77 middle school kids were threatened with neglect charges by local child protection agencies if they didn’t get their kids vaccinated for hepatitis B, a disease almost always spread through intravenous drug use or sex with multiple partners. Vaccines themselves pose possible, if rare, health risks that some parents wanted to avoid."
reason.com

There are a lot of other examples of similar over reach by public health, or child protective services in that link.

Tim
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