to think we should ban non-vaccinated from preschool

[BlackMaryJanes]

I saw this article today:

"Kids Who Haven't Been Vaccinated May Be Banned From Preschool"

...and I'm inclined to agree.

AIBU?

Amber i'm in Wales so am very interested, do you have a link re. the misdiagnosis?

The number of laboratoryconfirmed cases in the outbreak stands at 370 out of a total of 850 samples tested.

This was from the guardian, ambersocks, where does the figure of 8 confirmed cases come from?

but actually it is a lot worse than chicken pox as an illness. It's nasty, but short lived.

AmberSocks - the BBC (2nd May) said, "The number of cases in the Swansea measles epidemic has risen to 1,039, an increase of 28 in the past two days."

That doesn't tally with your assertion that there were only 8 confirmed cases and over 200 misdiagnosed. I'm not being awkward, I have the same view as you on conditional vaccination and would eschew state education if it came into force, I'm just questioning the figures you've quoted.

YABU. This is a free country is it not?! My children have been vaccinated BTW,

"Hypothetical: There is A Disease doing the rounds. I am vaccinated, you are not. I am 99% safe from contracting The Disease. You are vulnerable.

Applying that logic, why should you be banned from playgroup? you cannot hurt me, I'm 99% invincible."

Search me, Holly, aside from the argument that we have a social, moral obligation to put the welfare of others' children (i.e. those who cannot be vaccinated) ahead of our own. It's not an argument which works for me, btw.

It remains one of the leading causes of death among young children globally.

Measles vaccination resulted in a 71% drop in measles deaths between 2000 and 2011 worldwide.

From WHO

*As many as 1 out of every 20 children with measles gets pneumonia, and about 1 child in every 1,000 who get measles will develop encephalitis. For every 1,000 children who get measles, 1 or 2 will die from it.

From the CDC

cotes has said up thread that the MMR and other vaccinations are not compulsory for school attendance in France Martha

surely being 99% invincible is good enough? People's risk perception is seriously skewed.

Staff may not be immune,there will be a lot of vulnerable babies around at pick up,if vaccinated although unlikely you can still get it,very bad for pregnant women.....

Finally sending an unvaccinated child to a closed in high germ zone(3 year odds not known for their hygiene habits) where there could be other unvaccinated children wouldn't be the brightest thing to do imvho.

Yanbu

All true for fifth disease, against which nobody is vaccinated.

YABU - there are lots of reasons for not vaccinating. It is not just black and white!

Holly - because the person standing next to you may not be able to be vaccinated, and the mother picking up at the door may be in the middle of immune-suppressing chemo, so that contracting a virus spread by the healthy-but-infected child could be fatal.

There's an argument for 'why should I put other people's health ahead of that of my child' which is fair enough, if a little 'I'm alright, Jack', but the flip of that argument is 'why should your child's health be any more important than mine?'

It's a minefield.

The easy way to think of this is to imagine a viral outbreak as a flood and immune people - whether immune naturally or created so - as flood barriers. The more barriers, the less the flood damage. If the gaps are small enough,the virus can't get out and spread and grow, and eventually, hopefully it dies altogether.

But, not enough barriers, and there's water everywhere, which is bad for everyone - and that's what's starting happen with some virii and the uptake of immunization. Something will have to be done, because the NHS won't cope with the return of generalised measles etc, but I'm not nearly smart enough to work out what.

CoteDAzur - do you happen to know if there's a viable vaccine for that, and what the spread rate and complication rates are?

Bear in mind that there's a lot more to deciding on mass vax programmes than it seems.

No and I don't care enough to spend time researching it tbh.

What I do know is that staff in schools for small children are well aware of their immunity status for childhood diseases. It is simply hysteria to say all babies everywhere have to be vaccinated for school admission because some of the staff might be too dumb to realise they might catch a children's disease from the hundreds of children they mix with every day and have never thought of checking their immunity and vaccinating where necessary.

We cannot deny education to children on the basis of their parents' decisions.

I have seen the situation Hecsy described, albeit on a slightly less extreme scale, and that was with parents who actively chose to home-educate, who weren't forced into it in any way.

ImTooHecsyForYourParty
Parent says no vaccinations. Child gets no education. Parent educates child themselves. -Is that your assumption? Well what if they don't? Child grows up unable to read, write or add up.

Future for that child without even basic skills? Is it fair to a child to deny them an education - a future, possibly the ability to earn their own living - because of a choice made by their parents at a time when they were totally unable to have any say in that decision even if they were capable of understanding it?

And unless the child is placed under house arrest, they'd be at the park, in the street, playgroups, in their friends houses, etc. So what does denying them an education help with?

I don't think punishing the child for the choice of the parent is ever the right thing to do.

Again?
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OP must try harder.

Errr Cote I didn't have a clue I didn't have immunity to chicken pox or rubella(had it as a child and a jab for rubella),why would I?So all teachers should have blood tests to check immunity for risky diseases.

Sorry but I think unvaccinated children should be banned for their own good let alone anybody else. Pre- schools are a hotbed of germs as it's often the first time many kids play in close proximity to kids and their hygiene levels are still poor.

Aside from that many mums don't ave a choice but to bring babies under the vaccinated age.

'The unvaccinated absolutely are a threat to everyone around them'

ONLY if they have the disease.
My unvaxxed son is in school today. Today he doesnt have measles, mumps, meniningitis, ebola, SARS, swine flu or any number of diseases. Therefore he is athreat to no-one.
Get a grip.
Unless he smacks into another child in his powerchair. But you cant vax against his erratic driving.

Today he doesn't,tomorrow he might.

somehow I doubt it. But as I said, he cant be vaxxed for medical reasons but I really dont worry about the vaccine status of other children because he has this marvellous thing called 'an immune system'.
He's more at risk from dipsticks who send in kids with vomiting viruses and chest infections and that happens weekly.

Blueskies - Do you work in a school for small children? If not, my post wasn't about you.

If you do work in a school and are not on top of your immunity situation - well, that is not very smart, is it?