The problem of course is that not all vaccines are given for herd immunity reasons. Pertussis herd immunity really only exists among kids, and one way to read this is that while this is important in the public school setting, the fact is that the disease will never be controlled in the wild. The CDC makes ever longer lists of Pertussis vaccination recommendations but we have no way of really knowing what's required and once people reach the age of majority, society doesn't have many options, so relatively short-lived immunity as in that vaccine is not a global herd immunity issue but rather an attempt to control herd immunity in a very specific setting.
Similarly, you are never going to get enough herd immunity to make a flu vaccine worthy of mandating for this reason but that doesn't keep the CDC from issuing recommendations.
Vaccines are given for a number of reasons. Some truly present population-wide herd immunity considerations (Measles, Polio, possibly to a far lesser extent Diphtheria, but that is complicated by the fact that we simply don't know how common sub-clinical diphtheria is in vaccinated populations given that the vaccine targets exotoxins rather than the organism itself).
The vaccination regimes have become out of control. There is no need to require the vast number of vaccines that are routinely given today. Stick with the big ones. Don't require all the others. Use the others in the case of individualized risk. Yes, I know the autism theorists suggest the big vaccines are to blame but there is little evidence there. However, aside from MMR, DTaP, and Polio, there are few diseases out there which are so severe a menace to public health and safety that we can't just let people decide on their own.
Similarly, you are never going to get enough herd immunity to make a flu vaccine worthy of mandating for this reason but that doesn't keep the CDC from issuing recommendations.
Vaccines are given for a number of reasons. Some truly present population-wide herd immunity considerations (Measles, Polio, possibly to a far lesser extent Diphtheria, but that is complicated by the fact that we simply don't know how common sub-clinical diphtheria is in vaccinated populations given that the vaccine targets exotoxins rather than the organism itself).
The vaccination regimes have become out of control. There is no need to require the vast number of vaccines that are routinely given today. Stick with the big ones. Don't require all the others. Use the others in the case of individualized risk. Yes, I know the autism theorists suggest the big vaccines are to blame but there is little evidence there. However, aside from MMR, DTaP, and Polio, there are few diseases out there which are so severe a menace to public health and safety that we can't just let people decide on their own.