Freedom of choice has instigated serious public health issues where people who don't vaccinate their kids by choice even though they can afford it, put others at risk. People who are immunocompromised, can't afford vaccinations, etc. those are the people I fight for. What gives another person the right to purposefully not vaccinate their kid/themselves and endanger the rest of the community? In order to protect those who can't protect themselves, laws need to be passed. That's just my rambling opinion though.
Thanks for taking the time to write those great detailed replies, I appreciate it & enjoy having the conversation.
As to the specific quoted questions you posed above:
Before we can discuss them, one thing to keep in mind however is that almost all of the "epidemics" or "outbreaks" that are used currently in the modern witch hunt against those questioning the current vaccination schedules can be traced almost entirely to those from 3rd world countries, rife with disease that are coming in to our country illegally (sometimes legally) and where the communist run courts and politicians demand they be pushed into contact with everyone else.
UNTIL we stop that, what's the point?
You can be vaccinated up to the hilt, then somebody brings the latest mutated monkey virus from some 3rd world cesspit and well... there goes all your plans.
I would say if you are not a citizen and wish to enter our country (or are illegal and relying on our good graces to stay and not enforce the law), then it's also perfectly reasonable to say that we are within our rights to say that you must either get vaccinated (using the ones we give out for free, or equivalents that you prefer and pay for yourself) as a condition for us deciding to allow you into our country. Otherwise you are free to stay in your own country/return to your own country or pick some other country to go to. The citizens of the united states have the right to decide entry criteria for people that wish to come into the country since we are not forcing anyone to come to the country, they are wanting to do it on their own.
If you wish to have control of the diseases entering your country, you must be willing to enforce the rule of law regarding entry to our country.
Funny how the same places that are going all heavy handed about vaccinations (like CA) are also absolute in their refusal to enforce any law regarding lawful orderly entry into or residency in our country.
For those that "can't afford vaccinations", I don't really think that is any issue at all that can't be solved by a tiny fraction of funds we waste on losers daily. Offering free vaccinations to anyone and everyone if they don't mind whatever is in the standard government issue stuff would be hardly a blip on a budget line. Might as well use our tax money for good.
I think however the immunocompromised issue is more of a red herring in actual practice than fact.
(Especially as noted above we refuse to control who comes in this country or screen them for diseases).
If they are so deficient that they can't even get the best, most carefully done vaccines without being in severe danger then they may want to stay the hell away from big cities, big hospital waiting rooms, public schools, and areas where our loving communists ship in the riff raff from the whole planet.
If someone or their kids can't be given vaccines well then they can not hang out with people who might not be vaccinated if they think that's a risk. Inconvenient for them sure, but that's the way of the free. You'd be hoping that nobody's vaccines ever didn't work (which we all know is false), or that the democrats don't shove some illegals in your school with some unknown disease that you have never seen here recently.
Freedom is sometimes messy but once you start saying it should be taken away for the good of someone else, you pretty much end real freedom.
You can't be free if you force your fellow citizens to do things for your own benefit. That pretty much leads down the road to communism as evidenced around the world and gathering speed. Next you start threatening people (as they actually do in England) with jail and police raids for saying that person born with male reproductive organs is still a man even if they tell you they "feel" like being called a woman... because well it might hurt their fragile mental health.
It is against the idea of individual liberty to force other people to do things on your behalf / to protect you.
I think actually that's what a lot of the problems in this country come down to, some "special" group or those with some "special" problem demand that everyone else should have their lives regulated to suit them.
If you are immunocompromised, that is your issue, sorry but tough, that's on you Not on everyone else.
Same as if your children are immunocompromised, well that's on you and them, Not everyone else.
For everyone else, feel free to get vaccinated as you wish how you wish when you wish or if you wish and take your chances both directions depending on what you feel best.
They may have to pay out of pocket, but I'm sure there is plenty of private schools that they could pick from which would have vaccination as a condition of free entry to their school... but then wait... your kid is maybe endangering the others because what if they get sick and the vaccinations don't fully protect the others? It kind of works both ways.
I'm not sure if you agree, but in my opinion, the whole "Epidemic" thing is way overblown these days just like "terrorism" they have an "epidemic" or "Outbreak" when what 30 people get measles in a city? BFD! We used to have that in a single small school at one time. A pain in the ass but "epidemic" give us a break now thousands in a city coming down with it, then we start talking labels.
And again, most of these "epidemics" are directly the result of non citizens, many times illegally in this country, being purposely shoved into our schools, and cities by communists.
As to law abiding citizens of this country and encouraging more to be vaccinated.
I think if there was a shift away from being heavy handed and towards the government and medical industrial complex actually listening to the concerns of the citizens about vaccinations and a lot of effort was made to offer choices that didn't include chemicals with potential side effects, as well as offering single vaccines only and at non critical brain development times, a whole lot more, here is all the research ever done, if you have concerns, let's figure it out and a lot less do as we say or we should arrest you. You might find that the overall vaccination rate will go up.
I don't need vaccines for most "childhood diseases" as I got my immunity the hard way, but eventually I'll want some other vaccinations before the downfall of civilization, probably at the very minimum tetanus as well as rabies and a couple others.
Now if you want to go challenge the Hassidic Jewish community or the Muslim schools about getting vaccinated... please by all means give it a try, Somehow I don't predict a bright future for someone someone trying to challenge the "most protected" class to drag themselves into the modern age... But who knows maybe you'll succeed.