The purpose of public health has always been to contain disease so as to protect a population, rather than to cure afflicted individuals. Traditionally, however, public health efforts focused on the clear and present danger. Having failed to capture persons at high risk, they seek to enlist the entire population, beginning at birth. No longer is it the infected person, but the unimmunized person, who is considered the public health threat. The role of the public schools .
Knowledgeable citizens are essential to the security of any society.
Properly indoctrinated subjects are essential to the success of any coercive government program. One stated rationale for government access to all medical records in computerized format is the need to monitor public health. This includes immunization records, but many other items as well. Masked coercion . Less well-recognized is the extrapolation of safety data from relatively small study populations to millions of mandatory vaccine recipients.