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I am 100% in favor of vaccines. They are safe for the vast majority of people and the best medical breakthrough in human history.

The only thing I am not 100% in favor of is treating a a lack of vaccines as child abuse because that approach means that the poor with reduced access would be disproportionately punished. Or minorities who know that the government has used medical practices to experiment on people like them.

A black family who is hesitent because of the Tuskegee experiments should not be treated as abusive for not trusting the US health care system. They have a valid reason to be suspicious. White Karen in the suburbs does not.

Then we get into which ones are necessary and which ones are not. MMR would probably fall under necessary, but what about flu shots? Flu regularly kills over 10k people each year, should that be required for all kids to not be abuse? Should all adults who don't get the flu shot be considered as horrible people?

Someone can be 100% in favor of vaccines and still acknowledge it isn't as cut and dried as 'no vaccines = abuse' or everyone should get every vaccine when even doctors don't recommend that everyone get every single vaccine.