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by StavrosK 2002 days ago
"Things done to our bodies" describes all of medicine. Why the furore now? We already vaccinate all children and we agree that it's for the best, but when it comes to vaccinating adults to save them from the plague it's dystopian?
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Well, we definitely don't vaccinate all children. US compliance rate for the seven-series is only 70%, and only 82% for the three-series (DTaP, Polio, MMR). So the culture of noncompliance even for fifty-year-old vaccine designs is still there.

That said, medicine is largely a voluntary affair. Nobody is getting up in arms over people choosing to get vaccinated; rather, they're bristling at the idea of being forced to do it, or at the very least suffering severe repercussions or going on a watchlist for choosing not to.

Thanks for your response, I dont understand the downvotes.