[notacoward]

The issue is not just risk to vaccinated children, but risk to the legitimately unvaccinated - too young, immunocompromised, any other condition that's scientifically known to make vaccination unsafe. Those people can't rely on vaccination, so they must rely on herd immunity. When herd immunity weakens beyond a certain point, those people are completely vulnerable for reasons that have nothing to do with their own choices. When we talk about the freedom of some people to forego vaccination, we're talking about taking away these other people's freedom to participate normally in society without significant risk of contracting an often crippling or even fatal disease.