Other unanticipated, but significant consequences of vaccinations occur. One example is the vulnerability of infant to measles now because their mother’s breast milk can’t protect them. That was not true in the past when mothers were immune to measles because of their own exposure to the disease. Another example is the massive increase in the painful, sometimes disablingly so, disease called shingles among the elderly. Before the chicken pox vaccine, only a tiny percentage ever suffered from shingles. Now, the CDC estimates that 30-50% of elderly Americans will get the disease. Of course the solution is now to immunize old folks as well as little ones. Vaccine manufacturers are crying all the way to the bank.
The bottom line is quite simple - Mandatory is a bad word. When we don’t understand the consequences but we do know that some people will inevitably suffer badly from problems we don’t yet know about, how can we insist that they must receive a treatment? If the disease were one spreading rapidly, killing or disabling thousands or millions, making an intervention mandatory might make sense. That is nothing at all like the situation we are in. The current push for mandatory vaccinations is at best thoughtlessly misguided.
The arrogant overconfidence and naïveté driving this push to take away our right to think for ourselves is dangerous.