Even with any loopholes, the choice is still vaccinate or isolate, right?

[Liberal Lantern]

Parents can legitimately not vaccinate a child for medical or religious reasons. What I am not understanding is the anti vaxers and their problem with isolation...due to their choice to not vaccinate.

To me, that is like smokers complaining that they can't smoke around kids or people with asthma or parents sending their kids to schools that bars peanut products, but sending their kids with peanuts products anyway.

Do they understand the risk that their anti vaxing position potentially can cause? Especially with children that are too young to receive the MMR vaccine whatsoever...

[on point]

1. i'm with you. Quarantine those without vaccine 7x24 at home, no visitors.

Take the risk out of society. See how long they can hang at home by themselves. The surgeon general ought to at least consider 1 month quarantine for the unvaccinated to put a firebreak in the current epidemic.

That is long enough for enough for symptoms to show and isolate all cases.

[Avalux]

3. Who wound enforce it?

The two choices are not equivocal. Vaccinations PREVENT infection, Isolation/Quarantine tries to manage spreading infection. So which is the best choice?

Do you remember the frenzy over those few people who had been exposed to Ebola and were isolated?

[on point]

4. Attach serious $ and criminal penalties. If u get measles you're guilty

Isolation is self enforced for those without vaccine. No visitors not already safe from disease

[Avalux]

2. Isolation won't work with measles. Highly contagious before symptoms appear.

So parents may have no idea their child has been infected and is passing it on to others before symptoms are present.

So no, parents cannot legitimately not vaccinate because of the variability of incubation and transmission. The either or choice you present doesn't work.

[on point]

5. I'm saying quarantine ANYONE without vaccination, until they get one. Symptomatic or not

[Avalux]

6. Again, who will enforce that?

It's completely unrealistic to think something like that would work, and it would cause hysteria.

[on point]

7. See post above. Self enforced, with severe $ and criminal penalties for violation

If they get or give measles to anyone, they have declared themselves guilty and pay the penalties.

[Sgent]

8. It's on the state

In Mississippi in West Virginia you must be vaccinated to attend school or daycare. The only exception is for health and even then it must be confirmed by the public health department.