All that legislation does is punish vulnerable children while failing to protect them in any way. The parents make that decision on their behalf will have to live with it. The children may very well not.
We already have laws in place that remove children from the custody of the unfit. We already have laws to protect children from abusive parents. This is the same thing. I don't need to tell you what a responsibility kids are. Not vaccinating them is a complete failure of that responsibility.
Even when you are vaccinated, they usually have about a 90% success rate. It might not take for whatever reason, or an immune individual can be overwhelmed by infection if heavily exposed. For example, if everyone around them is sick. That's why outbreaks include the vaccinated, but the resistance provided by the vaccination limits that spread like a wall. A wall weakened by non-vaccinated persons, who tend to be the source anyway, often upon returning from foreign countries. They put everyone at risk.
And sure, segregating them might help, assuming you can segregate them everywhere, which you can't. And if you think segregation is less of a "rights" issue than having everyone vaccinated. And then those people will likely gather together, assemble non-vax schools so meet their kid's needs, because it is unreasonable to expect them all to be hermetically sealed all their lives. They already tend to cluster in communities because of the way these ideas spread. And then when an infection hits them, as it no doubt will at some point, the results will be devastating. And then maybe some of them will learn. Maybe. But that kind of lesson cannot come too early and always comes too late to be of any use.
This is a public health issue. PUBLIC. It affects everyone. So yes, I bloody well do get a say in whether other people vaccinate their children, as does everyone. And forgive me for not supporting a "right" to which I can point and say, "that's why those people died." That, so help me, I might one day point to and say, "that's why my daughter died." Fuck. That.
It is abuse. Nothing less. I will not stand for it.
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