The Issue: Whether unvaccinated children pose health risks to everybody else.
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Naomi Schaefer Riley writes she fears her kids are at risk because parents are not vaccinating their children (“Other Moms’ Fear Threatens My Kids,” PostOpinion, July 25).
While I think children should be vaccinated, shame on her for not seeing the other side. She lectures those “moms who dare to question vaccinations,” but fails to realize that children have been injured because of vaccines.
Maybe the numbers are not extreme, but tell that to the parents of a child who was injured.
Children need vaccinations, but they need to be done in a safer way.
Let’s stop putting the health of our children in the hands of pharmaceutical companies. I applaud those moms who are doing their research.
Paul Ryan
Rockville Centre
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Getting hysterical and advising doctors to bully parents is not going to lead to more kids getting vaccinated.
If Riley wants to vaccinate her child, what is the problem? If the vaccine doesn’t work, it is not my fault.
American parents are not stupid.
The reason so many parents are refusing vaccines is because they have seen children have adverse reactions and they are scared.
Our crowded infant-vaccination schedule, the most aggressive in the world, has never been tested for safety according to the way the vaccinations are administered, sometimes even six at a time.
We have one of the highest child-mortality rates in the Western world and among the sickest kids. Asthma, diabetes and autism are skyrocketing.
Where is the outrage over that?
Adverse vaccine reactions could be a lot more common than whooping cough.
Katie Wright
Manhattan