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pseydtonne · 3914 days ago · link · · parent · post: Thanks, Anti-Vaxxers. You Just Brought Back Measles in NYC.
If he really is not interested in what we had until recently considered a baseline for the social contract (you get vaccinated so that you do not put yourself and others at risk for contagion), then he has chosen to opt out of the social contract. That's fine -- but he has to leave the paved part of the world (or at least of North America). You can't have it both ways. If you're going to accept the benefits of Western civ (jobs, money, pre-made housing, cheap food, roads), then you have to accept the entry tariffs. If you've decided this prerequisite is not suitable to you, then you leave. Population density mandates public health controls. I don't feel so liberal when I put it this way, but science trumps hippies.