The Importance of Vaccinating your Kids

When it comes to health care crisis’s, Texas is usually one of the worst affected due to our lack of importance we place on health care topics.  Bernice Johnson’s editorial argues the importance of vaccinating your kids. A very important issue we need to address is the protection of our children through vaccines. Travis County in Texas has one of the highest vaccines exemption rates in the country. The number of unvaccinated children has drastically increased since 2003 which is scary. Our state legislature has expanded the ability for our kids to have exemptions for non-medical reasons.

The author of this editorial is Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson who was the first nurse elected to the U.S. Congress. She represents the 30^th district of Texas. She has also worked on numerous bills supporting American’s health in Congress. This means she is very credible to talk about vaccine exemptions in Texas. The author’s intended audience is anyone who she can help convince the importance of vaccines. She is trying to convince the people of Texas the importance of vaccinating your kids to protect their health.

Bernice Johnson’s argument is that anti-vaccine paranoia is contributing to a worsening health crisis in Texas and people need to vaccinate their kids to protect them. She uses facts and research done by independent scientists to justify her point that vaccines are safe and should be gotten by anyone who doesn’t have a medical exemption. She justifies her claim with research from the centers of disease control to help show the facts around her point. She also uses the logic that people would want to protect their children as another reason to try to get people to vaccinate their kids. She also brings up the outbreaks in Texas of diseases that we thought were eliminated to help show that the lack of people getting vaccines is having serious consequences.

I agree with all of Bernice Johnson’s points about the importance of children getting vaccines. The only way to properly protect children is to require them to get vaccines. There is no reason that diseases that we believed were eliminated should be coming back in this modern age. As a society we need to help limit the spread of false information on social media that is causing people to believe it is okay to not vaccinate their kids. Texas needs to eliminate exemptions for religious and non-medical reasons. There is no reason that anyone should be able to not get a vaccine due to the false information they believe from online. These parents that are not vaccinating their kids are creating a real health hazard for people in school. You should not be able to make a decision that will affect the health of other people’s kids.

Bernice Johnson writers and effective article that argues the advantages of getting vaccines with the help of many sources and research. Her article explains why it is important for Texas to require people to get vaccines to protect their health and the health of their kids. Texas needs to work its way to the front of protecting people’s health and should not have some of the counties with the highest exemption rates in the nation.