“Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?” - Jonas Salk. Jonas Salk was the man who created the polio vaccine in the 1950’s and didn’t put a price on the medicine because he wanted to cure the people and not make money from them. As of right now, children are required to be vaccinated and should stay that way because serious diseases will no longer be tolerated and people tend to live longer from the protection of vaccines. Some people decide not to vaccinate their children vaccines because they can do more harm than good or don’t want to because of their religion. There are some side effects from vaccines, but it’s worth it because you won’t be getting sick from serious diseases. Children should be required to be vaccinated because they won’t be exposed to harmful diseases and could possibly live longer because of the protection from vaccines. “Because of vaccines, many diseases that plagued children for centuries have all but been eliminated.” Diseases like polio and measles that parents feared for their children many years ago have been prevented by vaccines. “Millions of Americans live longer on average because of the protection vaccines provide.” If …show more content…
“Over time, vaccinating turns that diseases into serious diseases that we no longer tolerate, even when those diseases were not public health priorities before their vaccines were developed.” Something to mention is diseases that aren’t contagious or aren’t that harmful, there are still vaccines for those diseases so that you won’t get it in the first place. "Vaccines are safe, the mothers don't know what they're talking about." Many hoaxes are started to bring down a statement that someone doesn’t think it’s correct and try to persuade others to change their minds. These are my statements on why children should be