July 29 - Biology - Vaccination

Ø    Should “parents take a more active role in designing their children’s immunization schedule”?

Ø    Would you support making vaccination programs “compulsory”?

- I'm not sure about the first point. I'm a little torn because I think that vaccines are necessary and life-saving but I'm not convinced we need to give babies multiple vaccines in one day. I feel like a big part of that is probably convenience for the producers of vaccines and doctors, whereas it could be healthier/less emotionally and physically traumatic for a baby to get them each on different days. 

- I do support making vaccines compulsory. They already practically are, and the rates of so many life threatening diseases have plummeted because of this. When I was younger I was friends with some militant health-craze types who said that vaccines are poison and cause all sorts of disease, and I was impressionable and thought they might be right. But through my own research and through being friends with many immunocompromised and autistic people, I've learned that vaccines are completely necessary