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Originally Posted by Muffin2

yeah the whole "mothers responsibity" touched a nerve with me as well. its wrong to presume the mother is the primary care giver in 2008.
and i don't really care if you think i'm arrogant, its common knowledge it was that ridiculous paper on MMR and autism that sparked this all off. it just goes to show how one badly written paper can cause such havock. paniced parents and measles and mumps outbreaks.
and no offense, but i thought herd immunity relied on people taking the responsibilty to be vaccinated. currently no one can force vaccination so technically it is the responsibilty of each and everyone of us.
and why should the government take responsibilty if things go wrong if, as it stands at the moment, the vaccination was a choice. fair enough if it were to become compulsory the government should take responsibility, but not now.
i just know any kids of mine will have every vaccine going.

I don't disagree that more people should be vaccinated. I do not think that they should be forced into doing so.

As for the NHS sorting out peoples' bad lifestyle choices - the majority of MIs, strokes, lung cancers, road traffic accidents, COPD cases and so on are mostly or entirely the responsibility of the individual who has them. It's what we do. If people did everything "right" (if that's even possible), I think that you, me and most of the rest of this forum would be out of a job pretty quickly!