ShaggyJebus wrote...
I don't think a person should get EVERY vaccine. That'd be overdoing it. But things that are time-tested, that are pretty much common sense, yeah, everyone should have to get those vaccines. Like polio. No reason to not get a polio vaccine, right? But each year's new flu vaccine? That's completely different.
In other words, doing research on newer vaccines is important and necessary, but older vaccines, for major things that no one ever wants to risk getting, should be nigh-mandatory. Which is to say that if people don't get them, they get a fine or something. Because that's how capitalism works, isn't it?
Unfortunately, you have to be careful how you go about ever issuing any mandatory like this.
Because it can become difficult where to draw the line on what is acceptable and what isn't.
Not to mention the cost of maintaining this sort of system. It would be probably more cost effective offering deals with getting the vaccines and providing the necessary research. It would also limit the amount of power you would give someone over you on it.