Saturday, September 27, 2008

Get Those Vaccinations, Please

Several students at Charlotte-Mecklenburg area schools have been suspended for not having proof of current vaccinations for communicable diseases.

I fully approve. Parents have been getting away with not vaccinating their kids for decades now, using the flimsy excuse of problems resulting from vaccines (an infinitesimally small amount compared to risk of spreading of disease), and it's time that they were reminded of their civic duty to keep the population disease-free. This is a civilized country, and one of the benefits (and duties) of living in a civilized country is to ensure that preventing infectious diseases via vaccination is universally observed.

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