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People say this and seriously don't see how this messaging might not be all that encouraging to people.
I want more people to get vaccinated for diseases. This is not how to go about it, as society is now demonstrating.
Hey, if people don't want to get their kids vaccinated, that should absolutely be their decision. It's a shitty decision, but I do believe that parents should have the authority to decline.
That being said, if they choose not to vaccinate, their children should absolutely be banned from any public school or community rec league sports, or anyone else publicly funded.
And the private institutions that focus on children (day cares, private schools, etc.) should have a requirement in their license agreement where all children they serve must be vaccinated as well or else they lose their licensing.
Basically going non-vax should be handled in a way similar to how they should handle these idiot sovereign citizens: sure, you don't have to have your vehicle registered or interacted or even plated...but if you choose not to do that, you better keep it on your own property. The minute you turn onto a public road we're gonna throw the book at you.
I get what you're saying, but what you've described isn't really giving people a choice. Even if that choice they're making in not vaccinating their kids is a bad one.
If you want to participate in society, follow the social contract. If you don't want to follow the social contract, you don't get to participate as fully in society. This applies as much to actively violating the social contract via theft and violence as it does in negligence. You have no right to risk my kids' health for the sake of your beliefs.