CO HB19-1312 School Immunization Requirements

[Gman]

When I was a kid, you had to get your vaccines if you went to public school. Then again, polio wasn't that far in the rearview mirror and our parents remembered. There were survivors that were regular reminders. Smallpox also left its mark around the same time. Vaccines were seen as life savers, not perceived risks without a scientific basis.

You want to send your kid to public school, they should be vaccinated. You want to home school or find a private school willing to assume the risk of an outbreak among unvaccinated kids, that's your choice.

[Skip]

When I was a kid, you had to get your vaccines if you went to public school. Then again, polio wasn't that far in the rearview mirror and our parents remembered. There were survivors that were regular reminders. Smallpox also left its mark around the same time. Vaccines were seen as life savers, not perceived risks without a scientific basis.

You want to send your kid to public school, they should be vaccinated. You want to home school or find a private school willing to assume the risk of an outbreak among unvaccinated kids, that's your choice.

I remember getting shots but I don't remember any drama about them or kids not having them. If that concerned existed in the 80s, I was ignorant of it.

I had another thought last night... The idea of clustering non-vaccinated kids in a confined area is probably a really bad one too. In some of these stories you see isolated innocents that were either controlled or vaccinated people served as a "break." Create a special school/community of unvaccinated kids and there would be no breaks, it would ripple through that entire community.