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I agree that plenty of parents are not informed. I'm just not sure I agree that it's the school district's job to disseminate the information. Hmmm.
How else will the county disseminate the information effectively and efficiently? The only other option I see is the school administration handing over the contact information for every child enrolled in school to County Health and to me that starts to get into privacy issues. I'd rather have to hang up on a robocall from the school system than have them handing out my child's information to any agency that feels like engaging in a targeted information campaign.
I did hang up. I still don't like where I feel this is headed. I'm not remotely anti-vaccine, but if anyone attempts to force the HPV vaccine on my daughter? I'll pull her out of school and homeschool her.
That is how much I oppose that one vaccine.
That's your option, just like people on the other side need options too.
Society as a whole doesn't care if your kid gets a vaccine or not, it cares that a large swath of the population gets vaccinated. Public health vs. individual health.
I agree that plenty of parents are not informed. I'm just not sure I agree that it's the school district's job to disseminate the information. Hmmm.
That was pretty much my POV.
You may have parents who should be better informed, but I don't feel good about the government getting involved in this thing and leaning toward mandating a vaccine (that is potentially dangerous) to prevent such a minimal chance of getting cancer from HPV.
If this was an epidemic type of illness, my POV would be different, I assure you.
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I don't have a puppy in this hunt, but I just HAD to wonder how the "Angered Wake County Mom" felt about possibly being forced to have a conversation for which she wasn't prepared...
Society as a whole doesn't care if your kid gets a vaccine or not, it cares that a large swath of the population gets vaccinated. Public health vs. individual health.
The comments section is more accurate than the article.
Are you suggesting the New York Times just pulled a bunch of statistics out of thin air? Because all I saw was an article spewing out statistics more than anything.
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to wonder how the "Angered Wake County Mom" felt about possibly being forced to have a conversation for which she wasn't prepared...
