No. I know there was a scare sometime back, but that was disproven.

No

For the big ones, polio, tetanus, tuberculosis and the like, without doubt.
The annual flu shot I am not convinced of the necessity. I think it should be available for all, but personal choice. There are so many strains and the vaccine only has 3-5 variants in it.
I have never had a flu shot, yet I went to a Dr 4 years back, 1st time in years, and got my tetanus shot.

No

Vaccinations work. There is no good reason to avoid vaccinations.

Silly Question, but No !

I am pro-vax. I believe vaccination saves lives. I believe that herd immunity is important to protect those who can't be vaxed due to medical issues. However, I have many reservations about forced vaccination including all of the following:

I strongly believe in bodily autonomy. I have a right to say what happens to me medically. Where this gets tricky, of course, is when parents are speaking for their minor children and making dreadful decisions. Such as, "We're going to pray the cancer away."

Also, medical science is not as black-and-white as we like to think it is. For instance, I have a friend whose child has been diagnosed with PANDAS and some Lyme disease coinfections. This child's immune system is compromised, but not in a way that mainstream medicine is yet willing to acknowledge. My friend, understandably, doesn't want to vaccinate her child. But it's not because of Jenny McCarthy or Andrew Wakefield. She just knows that her child is at higher risk than other children for an adverse reaction. However, she's not anti-vax because she's counting on the children around her child to get their vaccinations, so her child can be protected by herd immunity. Yet she's sometimes treated like she's an anti-science nutjob and a horrible parent. I really feel for her.

And, then there's Gardasil. I have VERY mixed feelings on this one. A friend's perfectly healthy daughter developed severe, uncontrollable epilepsy after taking the vaccines. (Gardasil is multiple injections.) You can tell me that anecdotes aren't science and that "correlation isn't causation," but everyone (including her doctor) is pretty certain that she suffered a serious adverse Gardasil event. On the other hand, I have a family member who died from cervical cancer caused by HPV she didn't know she had. If she'd gotten Gardasil, she'd be alive today.

So, TLDR version: I am mostly pro-vax, but don't believe this is the black-and-white issue that both sides of the controversy keep trying to insist it is.

No. It should be required, and it is in my state, before they can attend school.

Besides the obvious, that vaccinations save millions of lives, it is also true that there are children and adults unable because of physical and medical issues to be vaccinated. These people depend on what is termed the herd immunity. "Herd immunity is a form of immunity that occurs when the vaccination of a significant portion of a population (or herd) provides a measure of protection for ... These include children who are too young to be vaccinated, people with immune system problems, and those who are too ill to receive vaccines (such as some cancer)."

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No. Thousands more would have died horrible deaths without vaccinations.

No

Mixed feelings-posted articles vs it earlier. Some proof of autism in male births.

I believe it is criminal for a parent not to vaccinate their children. It has been proven that these vaccinations provide protection against disease and not to vaccinate leaves these children open for disease and possible infection of others. Because it is for the greater good of others I do not believe this is an infraction of personal beliefs.