Protecting public health does not mean erasing individual rights. It means recognizing that some choices carry consequences beyond ourselves. Infants cannot choose to be vaccinated yet. They rely on us to create a protective barrier around them. That is not government overreach-it is community care.
Freedom, Responsibility, and the Lessons Polio Taught Our Generation | Common DreamsThose of us who lived through the polio era know something that is easy to forget today: Vaccines did not take freedom away, they restored it.www.commondreams.org