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Originally Posted by Alphagamuga
Yeah, I know what you mean. But I still wouldn't tie it school attendance. The vaccines that we require for school are usually for diseases fairly easily communicable through casual contact that you could expect at school. HPV, not so much.
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Oh yeah, like tetanus?
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Originally Posted by Alphagamuga
It bugs me that schools become the medium through which various non-academic ideas for the social good are foisted on the kids. Your attendance at middle school shouldn't be in question because you refuse a vaccine for a disease that someone couldn't really get from you, even if you had, it without pretty intimate contact. Even if we allow parents to refuse it, it's still a goofy situation to put people in.
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Can you think of a more convenient way to require (or even promote) vaccination?
What about the point raised earlier - that this guarantees insurance coverage for the vaccination?
Your fears of a "nanny state" really have to keep in mind pragmatism and effectiveness, don't you think?
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