The city of Philadelphia is blaming the recent measles outbreak on people declining to get vaccinated and failing to follow quarantine recommendations, after its Department of Public Health confirmed at least four cases.
The city’s Department of Public Health has confirmed at least four cases and is investigating two other possible infections.
“Unfortunately, we are seeing cases of measles that have spread to vulnerable individuals including young children due to people declining vaccination and also failing to adhere to quarantine recommendations,” Cheryl Bettigole, Philadelphia’s health commissioner, wrote in a Thursday press release. “Philadelphia is a city where we believe in a duty to take care of each other.”
I’m all for personal choice but if you choose to not have your children immunised, you’re not the one who suffers.
The children and those who can’t receive vaccinations do.
Which is why this infuriates me. People are harming others so that in most cases they can gain clout with other conspiracy fuck nuts.
There’s no personal choice when you live in a community when your choice affects such community. You don’t have a choice not to follow the laws, etc. There should be no choice not to vaccinate your kids. Don’t want to vaccinate? Move to another country.
When it comes to public safety, personal choice ends when you choose to take part in society. These people are selfish scum who refuse to give a fuck until they are personally affected.
You don’t get to choose, there’s a reason schools required vaccinations.
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It’s not simply “oh they will die, it’s their fault.”
It doesn’t end there, they spread the diseases farther allowing them to mutate. It negatively impacts everyone around them.
Yes. They must be shunned for the good of society.
NYC has an island they set aside for this purpose for scurvy when they thought it was communicable, right?
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