AIBU?
to think we should ban non-vaccinated from preschool
BlackMaryJanes · 07/05/2013 17:41
I saw this article today:
"Kids Who Haven't Been Vaccinated May Be Banned From Preschool"
...and I'm inclined to agree.
AIBU?
SuffolkNWhat · 07/05/2013 17:44
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TattyDevine · 07/05/2013 18:15
And if you consider prechool is 2 years and above, generally, those who believe in vaccinating their children will have vaccinated children, as they are done by 13 months (until about 3 and a half when they are due a booster, which, if you believe in vaccination, you will do.
scaevola · 07/05/2013 18:18
The article is about an Aussie campaign. IIRC, Australia already has various measures to encourage vaccination (lower or nil rate of child benefit if you don't).
It's never been a requirement in UK state schools (private schools can set whatever conditions they like), and I think it would be wrong to limit access to education on medical grounds. And I suspect parents would be tempted to lie and it would be hard to check.
It would be simpler to legislate to make vaccination compulsory, but to police such a system would require merging of NHS records with other government records. And given the general horlicks (and data losses) fom ever bigger Govt IT and ID projects I think it would be a massive logistic fail. An unenforceable law would be a bad law.
thecakeisalie · 07/05/2013 18:28
Even if non vaccinated children weren't allowed to attend preschool they would still be mixing in public places/playgroups so if your worried about the spread of something like measles it wouldn't eliminate the risk. As someone has said its all about creating herd immunity So in theory it couldn't spread, obviously in Wales its not really working right now and I doubt banning non vaccinated kids from preschool would have been enough to stop the outbreak (we live just over the border of North Wales)
CloudsAndTrees · 07/05/2013 18:36
YABU. Vaccine damage may be incredibly rare, bit it does exist. You advocate forcing people to inject something into their child that has the potential to damage them otherwise they get denied an early years education?
You think it's ok to deny something fundamental to a child because of a choice of a parent?
Sirzy · 07/05/2013 18:40
if yours have been vaccinated what is the problem ?
No vaccine is 100% effective so in theory unvaccinated children do increase the risk to vaccinated children albeit very slightly.
That said I think banning unvaccinated children is wrong and punishes the parents for a decision out of the child's control.
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