u.s. orders 300 million doses of swine flu vaccine

[KathyT]

Originally Posted by waitinginthewings

Vaccines may not be mandated by law, but it is done in an underhanded way. Example, if you work in any area of healthcare, & there is an outbreak, the healtcare staff are "expected" to get the shot, if they want to be allowed back to work. If they refuse, they have to stay away, without wages. What do parents do, if they refuse for their children to be vaccinated & they are working parents. The children are not allowed in school, so parents have to stay home with kids or find a babysitter. They make it as difficult as possible for people to refuse the vaccine.

"They" are not making it difficult. It is not underhanded.

Everybody has choices. Families don't have to have 2 working parents. It's a personal choice if they do. There are always consequences of your choices.

I have friends who home schooled their children all the way to college. I wouldn't have done it, but that was their choice.

You wouldn't want to have your kids in a school where measles was ramped. Or smallpox. Or polio. Schools do not mandate flu shots.