Of course vaccines should NOT be mandated. It's so silly when you really think about it.
"But seatbelts for children are mandated," you say, "why not vaccines?" It's simple. Vaccines hold very serious risks including brain damage and death, while seatbelts do not. Parents should not be forced to vaccinate any more than they should be forced to knowingly expose their children to a deadly disease.
But the benefits of vaccines always outweigh the risks, right? Maybe, maybe not. It depends on which expert you ask. It cannot be denied that vaccines carry serious risks. To think that those serious risks are so rare that it is impossible for your child to be affected is the equivalent of sticking your head in the sand. Read: Vaccine Injury Table. In case you're wondering, anaphylactic shock is a severe, rapid, and sometimes fatal hypersensitivity reaction to a substance, especially a vaccine, penicillin, shellfish or insect venom.
There are two major conflicting beliefs when it comes to vaccines:
1) Vaccines are safe, effective, and necessary
and
2) Vaccines are unsafe, ineffective and unnecesary.
If you think either of these two views is more scientifically valid than the other, you may need to think again. As far as conclusive evidence goes, there has not been any scientific proof of either of the two beliefs. Despite the efforts made by much of the mainstream medical community to convince the public that vaccine are safe and necessary, there is no solid proof of this claim.
We really don't know how safe or effective vaccines are, because we've never seen a long-term large-scale independent study of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated individuals. Vaccine studies are usually small and examine vaccinated vs. vaccinated individuals.
Don't think that's a big deal? How would you like it if I conducted a study in which I examined smokers who smoked menthol cigarettes vs. smokers who smoked regular cigarettes, with the intention of determining if smoking is safe or not? I found no difference in the two groups as far as cancer rates went, so I published my findings and shouted my conclusion:
Cigarettes are completely safe and DO NOT cause cancer!
Would you buy it? I wouldn't, and I don't buy vaccine conclusions either, thus far, because like I said, the proper studies have not been done.
Another vaccine study we have not seen is safety studies for the individual vaccine ingredients. How can we be sure of the safety of injecting questionable ingredients such as aluminum and formaldehyde into small babies without the proper studies? Another simple answer here: we can't.
We have also not researched the subset of children who have regressed developmentally after vaccines. Parents who claim their children became ill and then regressed into autism are often labeled as crazy...and yet these children have not been studied! Also, vaccines contain ingredients which are labeled as neurotoxins. To think that child who is going through rapid neurological development could be injected with multiple vaccines containing neurotoxic ingredients and then could experience neurological effects from the vaccine? "Preposterous!" says Paul Offit, "A baby could safetly be injected with 10,000 vaccines!" (Note the sarcasm, please, and look into Paul Offit if you're not sure who he is.)
We haven't researched susceptiblity; in other words, which children may be more at risk of suffering negative reactions from vaccines.
Lack of liability is another issue preventing a reasonable person from thinking vaccines should be mandated. Let's revisit the seatbelt analogy for this one. If you properly strapped a seatbelt onto your child, and the seatbelt (before you even started your car) managed to somehow strangle your child to death, would the company who made the defective seatbelt be responsible? Or would you say that you were responsible since you put the seatbelt on your child?
I'm thinking there would be a lawsuit on this one. A very big one.
But when a vaccine injures or kills a child, the vaccine manufacturer isn't held responsible. There is a federal fund called the National Vaccine Injury Compensation program which a parent must report to in order to begin the hoop jumping process of seeking justice for a vaccine injured or killed child.
Dig deeply into this program and what you find may shock you. The parents who are compensated are often ordered not to speak to the public about their injured children. The settlements they recieve do not even come from the vaccine makers...the fund is collected from a tax added to the vaccines (so every time you purchase a vaccine, you're helping to pay for someone else's vaccine injured child! Doesn't that make you feel special?)
There's some other reasons why vaccines shouldn't be mandated, including religious or philosophical objections, but I'll let what I've written already mull around in your brain and we can delve into these other reasons later.