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Message:: [QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2697193, member: 27832"]Common sense isn't up to the task here. Vaccines generally don't grant 100% immunity; they just reduce your chances of getting infected. Now, if nearly everyone is vaccinated, the odds of an outbreak are very low -- the odds of a sick person transmitting the disease to a vaccinated person are small, and the odds of a vaccinated person encountering a sick one are small. That means that even if someone does get the disease, it's unlikely to spread. But if enough people skip vaccination, you lose that protection. And even if you're vaccinated, if you get exposed to enough sick people, you still stand some risk of getting the disease yourself. I know this "common good" argument rubs a lot of individualists the wrong way, but can't you see that it is in your own self-interest to get the vaccination, even if there's some small risk associated with it?[/QUOTE]