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Originally Posted by janmcn View Post
Parents can make a choice to not get their children inoculated, but the public school systems can also deny these children admission to their schools to protect the public health. That's the way it works in most, if not all, states now.

Wait until the first child dies of measles and see how fast these anti-vaxers rush to the doctor to get their children immunized.

As to your second point, yuk.
Sometimes life after the complications of measles are very grave indeed. The complications include blindness and brain damage and deafness.
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