Vaccinate your children

In our quickly evolving and changing era, it is important to remember to get your child vaccinated. By law, children should have vaccinations if they are attending public schools unless there is a medical or religious reason. This is not because Big Brother wants you to listen to him. It’s a matter of public safety.

Sickness quickly spreads in school, where students spend time together for six hours a day. They are, in turn, brought home, or wherever else the student goes; a similar concept to the passing of diseases through an airport.

Fellow students who cannot get a vaccination because of medical reasons (such as having an autoimmune disorder, or recovering from a medical procedure) run the risk of contracting sicknesses from students who become carriers because they do not get vaccines. People can have a sickness days before symptoms show, spreading their germs to other people. Children are being exposed daily by their peers who do not get vaccinations.

What is important to remember is that everyone can get sick. We still need protection from organisms that have been attacking us for hundreds of years.

Leah Simeon

Spokane