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Let's just get this out of the way because it comes up every time, herd immunity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity). If it was just a personal choice I'd be more than happy to see your kids drop dead because they aren't vaccinated, but it's not just your kids, if you don't vaccinate you're harming other kids, including future generations.

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exactly. As an Australian living in an area with many recent measles outbreaks in schools that doctors blame anti-vacination campaigners for (admittedly there is not enough research at this point to conclusively blame this solely) I'm all for this.

Our area also has a very large elderly population that are being put at risk because of this.

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