LETTER | Why put the rights of individuals, who choose not to vaccinate, above society's?
| In the past week, news has come out that the government, who initially was gung ho in making vaccination mandatory for children, is now reversing the decision.
Parents can still have their right to not vaccinate their kids, and their kids still have their right to an education – but they cannot on the government’s dime. At the same time, it does no impinge on parental rights at all – parents can decide not to vaccinate their kids, but not compromise everyone else’s child in the same mentality that we now ban smokers due to health concerns by making them walk three meters away from any eatery.
Do we put the rights of an individual ahead of society? For the topic of healthcare, particularly on the issue of vaccinations, I believe we should look towards the rights of society as a collective first. To educate on this, the government has placed multiple gory pictures on every single box of cigarettes sold in Malaysia. Has it stopped smokers? No. The government has also decided to ban smoking from all restaurants and cafes, enforcing that one can only light up three metres away.
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