TIME Magazine

"The problem with making health decisions like vaccination on an individual level is that viruses don't see us as individuals," says Ben Neuman, professor of biology at Texas A&M University. "[They] see humanity as a group. And once the virus gets into one of us, the chances are greater that it gets into another person." Neuman describes vaccination against diseases like measles as "basically a moral responsibility of living in a modern democracy. Treating [the decision to get vaccinated] as an individual liberty is essentially irresponsible, in a public-health sense."