Tekker76 wrote:mikethepike wrote: To witness the same illness and slow, terrible but inevitable death in your own child when it is so easily avoided is almost unthinkable.
Its actually about 85-90% survival rate in the 1st world.
I am all for compulsory vaccination when its a big killer and/or there's a chance to wipe it out( small pox, polio, tet, diptheria etc). I'm happy with 1980's level vaccinations for some of the other stuff, like flu shots =personal choice. As to the public good , No.1 by far is tackling overweight/obese kids. 1/4 of all kids fit the category now, another 3-4 million fat adults in the making at risk of the big ticket diseases- heart , liver problems, diabetes. Not even decent ad campaigns running on this, plenty on selling those flu shots...
You are not factoring in the massive costs of treating tetanus once it becomes established in a person nor the pain and torment suffered by the patient. Compare this to a simple, cheap jab and possibly as sore arm for a few hours. It's a bit like suggesting we should routinely offer smokers a lung transplant rather than encouraging them to give up smoking.