Re: [LUG] OT vaccination was Re: iPad in school

[Philip Hudson <phil.hudson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11 Nov, 2011, at 10:52 pm, James Kilty wrote:

> On 11/11/11 20:52, Simon Waters wrote:
>
> > On the other hand in California the Waldorf schools as a group had  
> > the
> > lowest vaccination uptake rates of any of the types of school,  
> > which is
> > a sad reflection on the quality of parenting.
> There are strong arguments against mass vaccination - sadly if you  
> adopt a different model/paradigm of health and illness to the  
> prevailing one, you can be coerced (in the US) or pressurized here  
> with all sorts of arguments which amount to blackmail. I have never  
> understood how non-vaccinated children can be considered a threat to  
> vaccinated children. It all depends who you listen to and what  
> weight you give to the different arguments and what counts as  
> evidence for whichever position.
>
> Maybe off-list for further discussion.

I don't have the luxury of having grown up in a first-world country,  
so I fail on the vaccination complacency front. Too many dead and  
crippled children where I grew up.

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Phil Hudson                  http://hudson-it.no-ip.biz
@UWascalWabbit                 PGP/GnuPG ID: 0x887DCA63


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