New York Bans Unvaccinated Children From Going To School And Their Anti-Vaxx Parents Are Furious
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This summer, during the worst measles outbreak in decades, New York passed a law that ended religious exemptions to vaccinations for children in public schools.
Parents were given a two week grace period after the start of school to provide vaccination records or their kids wouldn’t be kicked out. As that grace period nears its end, many parents begin to fight back, furious that the law is actually being upheld.
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To be clear, the students can return to school if their parents vaccinate them. State health officials told BuzzFeed News that 26,217 unvaccinated New York children in public schools, private schools, parochial schools, daycare centers, and prekindergarten programs obtained religious exemptions during the 2017–18 school year.
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The measles outbreak that prompted the new law is easing. Earlier this month, Mayor Bill de Blasio declared an end to the measles outbreak in New York City, its epicenter. Since October 2018, there have been 654 measles cases in the city and 414 in other parts of the state, where transmission has also slowed. According to the CDC, children are most at risk from measles. One out of every 20 children infected with measles will contract pneumonia, while one in 1,000 will die from the virus. Other complications can include swelling of the brain (which can lead to deafness or disabilities).
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Equating being anti-vax to the Jim Crow law and the holocaust is just so fucking insensitive and brainless. Even if your unvaccinated kid is healthy now, they could easily get something like measles and then infect a kid whose immune system is compromised and they can't handle the illness and will die
They're child abusers - they're never going to understand how stupid they are.
If someone takes their child ANYWHERE, not just for fast food but ANYWHERE, and that child is UNvaccinated, that child could be INFECTIOUS with something deadly, like measles or chicken pox, and INFECT EVERY SINGLE PERSON THEY COME INTO CONTACT WITH!!! YOU are way off the mark!
Reply to Full Name: If someone takes their child to eat fast food, in absolutely no way can that bring with it the death of another child. You are way off the mark.
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People who take their kids to taco bell are far worse, yet nobody cares.
well, of course they are insensitive: they are antivaxx and will use ANY argument to support their reckless behaviour. They can open their own school and see what happens in there, like an evil petri dish!
That's a great idea aside from the poor kids who have to suffer at their stubborn parent hands.
The thing is that apparently this "parents" are entitle to do nasty and potentially killer experiments with their own poor kids. Of course those kids doesn't have to pay for their stupid parents, but eventually and sadly, they will. They should actually go into foster homes in order to find responsible grownup parents-by-heart, not the reckless ones that nature gave them. So, while laws are modified in order to save other kids and eventually these kids, I invite those parents to open their wild experiment into a large scale one and see what happens in there. They are abusers, stupid people, and sadly, the ones who pays the bills are the little children. As always.
Alia G. No sex ed. No relationship classes. Health, nutrition classes cut but oh yes, anyone can make a baby and inflict their decisions onto the rest of the world. Weird old vitamin deficiencies are coming back, why not weird old diseases. Ignorant people making more ignorant people.
The drinking fountain for vaccinated kids is so obviously faked for the photo. The sign isn't even taped in place, it would last 5 seconds. And if the unvaccinated kids are banned, there's no need to label the fountain. Pathetic behaviour.
That's what I thought! And the language is so provocative: fountain for vaccinated, instead of vaccinated persons. Someone trying to liken it to segregated water fountains I reckon
I wish I could up-vote your comment a 1000 times, Kaisu. That's the point exactly - their choice could kill others. If they don't want to vaccinate their children then they can keep their children permanently home and away from everyone else forever. (Or at least until the kid gets old enough to go get vaccinated themselves.)
The threat is mostly to the un-vaccinate-able youngest as well as the immunocompromised (chemotherapy etc)... Healthy kids can make it through measles etc with a bit of luck, the weaker not. That's the choice these AntiVaxx are making --- their freedom above your family members.
TheExtremeSmell Jesus didn't text, didn't have a mobile phone, didn't have a car, and so many other things. So use that at the same time
I had the measles when I was in second grade (1962-1963) and I can still remember the insane misery. Like being bitten by thousands of mosquitoes, having to stay in a dark room, ear aches for the rest of my life (even now, in my 60s)—no one who can avoid that should be left with their butts blowing in the wind because of their parents’ weird paranoia.
I always find it funny that the parents are vaccinated and have lived long enough to have children but won't vaccinate their kids? How's that fair?
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Vaccines are turning the frogs gay!!
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As could a vaccinated child too kaisu. The vaccination does not prevent the disease ive had the vaccine as a kid still got measles though. Youre point is irrelevant, whats happening in new york is discrimination unfortunately.
@ Stephen you don't quite understand how vaccination works. Yet it appears you have not had n *severe* measles??? With pneumonia, brain damage..etc.
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I have to disagree. You think you know how disease spreads and you claim your solution works. If it really works, why force it into kids who say they don't need it? If it really works, then the case should speak for itself.
Shut up and vaccinate your damn kids. And then shut up some more.
Simple enough that even idiots who are too stupid to vaccinate their kids can understand.
antivaxxers? you mean, pro-epidemics? :>
I'll be calling them pro-epidemics from now on!
This aged well...
Equating being anti-vax to the Jim Crow law and the holocaust is just so fucking insensitive and brainless. Even if your unvaccinated kid is healthy now, they could easily get something like measles and then infect a kid whose immune system is compromised and they can't handle the illness and will die
They're child abusers - they're never going to understand how stupid they are.
If someone takes their child ANYWHERE, not just for fast food but ANYWHERE, and that child is UNvaccinated, that child could be INFECTIOUS with something deadly, like measles or chicken pox, and INFECT EVERY SINGLE PERSON THEY COME INTO CONTACT WITH!!! YOU are way off the mark!
Reply to Full Name: If someone takes their child to eat fast food, in absolutely no way can that bring with it the death of another child. You are way off the mark.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
People who take their kids to taco bell are far worse, yet nobody cares.
well, of course they are insensitive: they are antivaxx and will use ANY argument to support their reckless behaviour. They can open their own school and see what happens in there, like an evil petri dish!
That's a great idea aside from the poor kids who have to suffer at their stubborn parent hands.
The thing is that apparently this "parents" are entitle to do nasty and potentially killer experiments with their own poor kids. Of course those kids doesn't have to pay for their stupid parents, but eventually and sadly, they will. They should actually go into foster homes in order to find responsible grownup parents-by-heart, not the reckless ones that nature gave them. So, while laws are modified in order to save other kids and eventually these kids, I invite those parents to open their wild experiment into a large scale one and see what happens in there. They are abusers, stupid people, and sadly, the ones who pays the bills are the little children. As always.
Alia G. No sex ed. No relationship classes. Health, nutrition classes cut but oh yes, anyone can make a baby and inflict their decisions onto the rest of the world. Weird old vitamin deficiencies are coming back, why not weird old diseases. Ignorant people making more ignorant people.
The drinking fountain for vaccinated kids is so obviously faked for the photo. The sign isn't even taped in place, it would last 5 seconds. And if the unvaccinated kids are banned, there's no need to label the fountain. Pathetic behaviour.
That's what I thought! And the language is so provocative: fountain for vaccinated, instead of vaccinated persons. Someone trying to liken it to segregated water fountains I reckon
I wish I could up-vote your comment a 1000 times, Kaisu. That's the point exactly - their choice could kill others. If they don't want to vaccinate their children then they can keep their children permanently home and away from everyone else forever. (Or at least until the kid gets old enough to go get vaccinated themselves.)
The threat is mostly to the un-vaccinate-able youngest as well as the immunocompromised (chemotherapy etc)... Healthy kids can make it through measles etc with a bit of luck, the weaker not. That's the choice these AntiVaxx are making --- their freedom above your family members.
TheExtremeSmell Jesus didn't text, didn't have a mobile phone, didn't have a car, and so many other things. So use that at the same time
I had the measles when I was in second grade (1962-1963) and I can still remember the insane misery. Like being bitten by thousands of mosquitoes, having to stay in a dark room, ear aches for the rest of my life (even now, in my 60s)—no one who can avoid that should be left with their butts blowing in the wind because of their parents’ weird paranoia.
I always find it funny that the parents are vaccinated and have lived long enough to have children but won't vaccinate their kids? How's that fair?
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Vaccines are turning the frogs gay!!
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
As could a vaccinated child too kaisu. The vaccination does not prevent the disease ive had the vaccine as a kid still got measles though. Youre point is irrelevant, whats happening in new york is discrimination unfortunately.
@ Stephen you don't quite understand how vaccination works. Yet it appears you have not had n *severe* measles??? With pneumonia, brain damage..etc.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
I have to disagree. You think you know how disease spreads and you claim your solution works. If it really works, why force it into kids who say they don't need it? If it really works, then the case should speak for itself.
Shut up and vaccinate your damn kids. And then shut up some more.
Simple enough that even idiots who are too stupid to vaccinate their kids can understand.
antivaxxers? you mean, pro-epidemics? :>
I'll be calling them pro-epidemics from now on!
This aged well...