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You would have to quarantine them for the people who cannot have vaccines.

Or everytime they risked someone in such a state charge them with attempted murder, or at least assault wtih a deadly weapon.

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Exactly- if a person created a device that dispersed diseases and placed it in a public area, would they not be charged with a crime? Is it much different to enter public areas unvaccinated, knowing that you might be a carrier of a disease that could be vaccinated against, especially when there are active outbreaks happening?

Sure, and while at it, put every single car driver in the same space. Shouldn't people in cars be segregated as they put the lives at risk of others when they go out in the public with those metal contraptions? Shouldn't they be charged for risking the lives of all, when we already know how many people perish in their hands?

This is a false analogy. Deaths from car accidents are unavoidable because driving a car is a societal requirement for many careers or needs. In the cases where those deaths were avoidable such as due to drunk driving, we rightfully penalize and criminalize people that put others at an unnecessary risk.

Deaths from people refusing to vaccinate are an entirely avoidable issue. They choose not to vaccinate and in turn threaten the lives of those around them with gross negligence, especially those that are medically unable to be vaccinated. Which is exactly what being anti-vaxx means: it means being in favor of negligence that can and does result in many avoidable deaths of people without other choice.

Biological terrorism.

Measles is one of the gentler kinds of fatal disease out there. Polio might make a come-back. Smallpox could rise again.

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