That is the issue. Vaccines, while "very effective" in preventing diseases, they are not 100% effective in preventing diseases.
So, if your child happens to be one of the few who aren't adequately protected despite being vaccinated, and your neighbor didn't vaccinate his kid, it is not just his kid that is at risk, it is your kid too.
I'm glad you brought this up; you are one of only a handful of vaccine advocates that acknowledge they are not 100% effective. In the measles outbreak in California a few years ago, something like a third or more WERE vaccinated yet still got sick. IF THEY WERE AS EFFECTIVE AS CLAIMED, THEN THAT SHOULD HAVE ONLY BEEN 1 OR 2 VACCINATED PEOPLE TOPS...but you already know this since you know they are not 100%
Statistically, the risk is almost nil though that your vaccinated kids will verafiably get infected by an unvaccinated person, even with all the illegals flowing in. Where there is risk, there MUST be choice...if a parent reads the risks of vaccines from the inserts published by the drug companies and he/she is concerned about those risks, you shouldn't use the power of the gov't to make them do something that could hurt their child to save YOURS. I'm quite sure you'd pick your child over everyone else's if we are talking about situations other than vaccines.
Again, there is no problem of any statistical significance (especially in our state) that warrants the hysteria we see surrounding vaccines. more than 90% choose them so why chase problems that do not exist. Your child leaving the house in the morning is statistically far riskier than living next door to a child who is unvaccinated; just because the kid is unvaccinated doesn't mean that kid is carrying a disease; that is also statistically super low.
Finally, before anyone speaks up judgmentally about vaccines, they need to ask themselves if they have had 100% of their booster shots throughout their lives and as an adult? Do you have an infant and have not had recent adult booster shots before he/she was born? If yes, then you are a hypocrite.
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