Why vaccinate
Take a look at the world around you. Whether you are in America or a third world country you are surrounded by some sort of disease. Preventable or not, the cure for many diseases is through vaccinations early on in childhood. Beginning at birth, parents are encouraged to immunize their children to prevent dangerous diseases they may come in to contact with. The new mandated vaccine law, SB277, which “removes all exemptions to vaccinate requirements for school entry” (California, 2015). Parents are outraged that they no longer have the choice as to whether or not they can vaccinate their children. Vaccinations are immediately beneficial to each person’s immunity and those around you. Do you remember the epidemic just recently
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By the time a child reaches age four or five and is ready to start kindergarten they should be up to date on their immunizations that include Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Pertussis or DTap, Polio, Hepatitis B, Measles, Mumps, and Rubella or MMR and the Varicella or chickenpox vaccine (Shots, n.d.). There are some parents in the United States that have taken a completely different approach when it comes to the health of their child. These same parents are the ones that are outraged that the state of California has now mandated all kindergarten aged children to be up to date on their …show more content…
2016). His success with the smallpox vaccine has saved countless lives, and in 1980 smallpox was eradicated due to his findings. Many scientists, including Louis Pasteur, have worked tirelessly to find vaccines for rabies, polio, MMR, DTap, and more to help the human race. With new strains of diseases, and the herd immunity not vaccinating has increased the chance of these diseases becoming more popular and increasing the chance of death. A herd immunity is critical for the community because it is unlikely that a contagious disease will occur if a majority of people are not
It is thought that Meno's paradox is of critical importance both within Plato's thought and within the whole history of ideas. It's major importance is that for the first time on record, the possibility of achieving knowledge from the mind's own resources rather than from experience is articulated, demonstrated and seen as raising important philosophical questions.
Between 1924 and 2013, vaccinations prevented 103 million cases of polio, measles, rubella, mumps, hepatitis A, diphtheria, and pertussis (Bailey). Vaccinating is “the process by which pathogenic cells are injected into a healthy person in an attempt to cause the body to develop antibodies to a particular virus or bacterium—successful creation of antibodies is referred to as immunity to the disease caused by the particular pathogen” (Introduction to Should Vaccinations be Mandatory). Popular conflicts regarding vaccination include the worry that this form of immunization isn’t natural, the idea that vaccination schedule for children in the U.S. takes away parents’ rights to make decisions for their children, and the concern that vaccinations aren’t safe for all children. Most doctors and scientists advocate for vaccinations in the name of herd immunity, protection against foreign diseases and prevention against pockets of disease outbreaks. Vaccinations should be mandatory for all children in the United States for who they are deemed safe and effective.
Before the first day of kindergarten most children are required to be up-to-date on vaccinations; this prevents the spread of communicable, life threatening diseases. From generation to generation, depending on how one is brought up, there is no question on whether or not to vaccinate. Many people have grandparents who remember the days of the polio and smallpox outbreaks and all the lives lost or changed during that era. One might think to themselves, “If there is a way to prevent a debilitating disease with a couple of shots, why isn’t everyone required to get vaccinated?” Some are just a little more skeptical: whether they’re cautious parents, conspiracy theorists, or they themselves have suffered from a side effect of a vaccine, they have a right to say no and in America that right is respected, in most states. That’s the beautiful part about a first world country, access to things such as vaccines.
“’Villains!’ I shrieked, ‘dissemble no more! I admit the deed! –tear up the planks! here, here! - It is the beating of his hideous heart!’”(Poe). Edgar Allan Poe, a brilliant writer and poet, is well known for his creation of the horror short story and mystery novel. He has written suspenseful short-stories such as “The Raven” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” where in both stories it has the reader on edge till the very end. For example, “The Tell-Tale Heart” is about the main character taking care of an older man and begins to despise the old man’s bad eye. In the end the main character kills the old man and places his body under the floor boards and ends up turning himself in due to his own insanity and hallucinations. So to understand how Poe
This story begins in a world, filled with diseases causing death and illnesses, with no way to stop or control it. Men, woman and children were dying in the most horrific way and no one knew how to stop it. That is, until the heroic act and discovery of vaccinations. People where now being protected from this onslaught, and slowly, these diseases stopped emerging amongst populations. However, if the administration of vaccinations were stopped, death, disease, and illnesses would thrive and be re-introduced into the world. This story does not have to repeat itself, as with all the advances in science and technology, we have the resources to put a stop to these dreadful diseases and help save millions lives.
The usage of vaccinations is important to keep track of. If it`s not written down you could get the same vaccine and hurt your body. Vaccination records are great, they help cure you if you are sick or not feeling well. Only a few people think that a vaccine shot could either give them, children, or animal(s) sick or even autism.
As a little kid I always feared going to the doctors. I dreaded the long, scary needles and being poked by them. Every time my mom told me I had to go to the doctors, I would immediately ask her if I had to get any shots. If she said yes, I would start crying, begging her not to take me and saying why are you doing this to me. Her response was always the same, saying I had to do this to stay healthy and it would only hurt for a little bit. At the time I never really understood what she meant, because I had been sick tons of times, so what good are these shots really doing for me. I thought if I missed some of the vaccines I would be fine and nothing bad would happen to me, but what would have really happened if my mom let me skip these vaccination
In contrast, a positive aspect of many people having vaccinations is herd immunity. Herd immunity is the occurrence where a large proportion of a specific population is vaccinated to provide them immunity, and as a result, it also gives some protection to the people of the population who have and yet developed immunity. This happens as the a large group of vaccinated individuals are protected from a virus and creates difficulty for the it to spread because there is only a small percentage of the population left that could be infected by the disease. It is a very crucial aspect of immunity for the community as the people who cannot receive vaccinations (i.e. people with weak immune systems, very young children and patients who are too ill)
Vaccinating, in my opinion is one of the most important things you can do as a human being, not just for yourself, but for everyone around you. Vaccines have few ingredients, almost all of which you come in contact with every day. The government tests and regulates vaccines continuously, not just while they’re being manufactured so you know they’re safe. The overall impact vaccinating has had on the world is great, some diseases have even been eliminated. People have many concerns involving vaccinating, my goal for this essay is to clear those up.
In 2011, there were 19,454 reported cases of vaccine preventable diseases in the United States alone (Rouch 2011). Most of these cases could have been prevented simply by getting a vaccination for certain diseases. There has been much discussion in recent years over whether or not parents should have their children vaccinated. Parents hear a great deal of information in the medi about the effectiveness and side effects of vaccinations. After hearing all sorts of negative things about vaccinations, it is easy to see why parents would be reluctant to have their children injected with all sorts of chemicals. In the end, the reason that children are not required to be vaccinated is that it is illegal to force someone to be vaccinated, but is
Health inequalities substantiate a higher moral high ground compared to income inequalities: It is irrefutable to deny that since the inception of scientific breakthroughs in vaccination, the quality of life of millions of individuals, through many different time periods and regions of the world, has been positively impacted. The disease profile of a majority of these vaccine-preventable diseases have been shown to severely impair the daily lives of infected people, often having deadly consequences. It would be extremely hard to argue that preventing parents who object to vaccination access to government payouts, would be more objectionable than the possibility of their children getting extremely sick and risking death. Indeed, on a more moral level, it would severely impair their equality of opportunity should they be infected, preventing them from performing their daily activities on the simple basis that they would be incredibly unwell and in most cases be isolated from others in society (2). Should parents continue to refuse vaccinating their children even with the implementation of the ‘No Jab, No Pay’ scheme, this could potentially widen the income gap between those individuals who decide to get vaccinated as a result of the policy and those who do not. It can be inferred that families who are reliant on such payments from the government would be on the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum, delving them deeper into poverty. However, this
The article, Religious Exemptions to Immunization Statutes, state that “unvaccinated children under the age of five make up a significant portion of the victims of vaccine-preventable diseases” (Ross 204). By considering the decreased risk of disease vaccinations bring, the government must regulate and mandate vaccinations for all children under the age of twelve because they have compelling interest to interfere in order to prevent illness for a child and for the community.
Vaccinations have been developed to prevent the human-to-human transfer of diseases. Not everyone gets vaccinated, but if the number of unvaccinated people is contained by the government then that means that the little percent that are not vaccinated will benefit in the world. Benefiting from something one is not paying for is called free-riding. Therefore, if free riding is not controlled there will be a huge problem within a community. The rate of people who are vaccinated must be high, so diseases are less likely to spread. The government should contain the percentage of free-riders.
Almost everyone gets vaccinated from the moment they are born, up till they are older. There are however some parents who decline to get their children vaccinated. Vaccinations are super important, especially in children. When a child gets vaccinated, the vaccinations help strengthen their immune system to where sickness will not spread to them easily. Many people would be surprised how quickly their child can get sick just from doing regular daily activities. While some people are against vaccinations, I am all for vaccinations and keeping children healthier.
Multiple studies have shown an increase in the local risk of vaccine-preventable diseases when there is a geographic region of people refusing vaccination. For example, in Michigan, there was a significant correlation documented between geographic regions of nonmedical exemptions and pertussis outbreaks. In Colorado, the county-level incidence of pertussis and measles in vaccinated children from 1987 through 1998 was associated with the frequency of exemptions of vaccinations in that county. School-based outbreaks in Colorado have been associated with increased exemption rates; the mean exemption rate among schools with outbreaks was 4.3%, as compared with 1.5% for the schools that did not have an outbreak. High vaccine coverage, particularly at the community level, is important for children who cannot be vaccinated, including children who are too young to be vaccinated and those who have medical contraindications to vaccination. These groups are more at risk for infectious diseases than the general population of children and depend on the protection provided by the vaccination of children in their environment.