California bans personal belief exemptions for childhood vaccinations October 30, 2018 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 9,973 |
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ondinette
I got the chicken pox vaccine when I was 27 because it was not available until then, and I never had the chicken pox. I don't remember anyone having any of the childhood diseases except chickenpox. Generation X was way healthier than the current crop of brats.
Re: California bans personal belief exemptions for childhood vaccinations October 31, 2018 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 2,701 |
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ondinette
I got the chicken pox vaccine when I was 27 because it was not available until then, and I never had the chicken pox. I don't remember anyone having any of the childhood diseases except chickenpox. Generation X was way healthier than the current crop of brats.
It's interesting that not that many new vaccines have come out since I was a child. Basically chickenpox and HPV. I wonder if there is less research in this area since people don't want to see to enjoy the vaccines we have. I still think the solution to the problem is a reality show where idiots with no real problems swap places with people from developing countries. If they survived they'd probably gain a sense of perspective.
I keep my vaccines up-to-date for travel, and not long ago I was recommended to update the pertussis vaccine because I was traveling to the US. It's absolutely ridiculous that people are now recommended to get vaccines before traveling to developed countries, because of the idiotic hoardes.
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Peace
I periodically get myself tested, and if I have a low immunity to anything, I get re-vaccinated. It's crazy in this day and age to suffer from preventable diseases.
Re: California bans personal belief exemptions for childhood vaccinations November 01, 2018 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 7,834 |
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contemplativeintrovert
I’m glad that parents will no longer be able to treat their kids like Petri dishes, but I would like to add, homeschooling is not always bad. People say homeschooling like it’s a bad thing, and it’s not. I was homeschooled until HS, and I am really glad! When I got to HS I was baffled by the stupidity of my classmates. Some of them didn’t know we were off the gold standards. Others didn’t know that Kazakhstan is a country. Most of the kids in my high school were preoccupied with frickfracking or drugs. I’d shudder to think what I’d have been like if subjected to that environment.
To any lurking breeders who might criticize my parents for home schooling me, you should also know that our next door neighbor was a school teacher. She went over all of our assignments and stuff to make sure we were at curriculum. And yes; I am fully vaccinated because my parents aren’t stupid and understood the value of us not dying from a horrible preventable disease.
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ondinette
Good!
Back in the 70s I got every available vaccination except smallpox. The doctor recommended I didn't get it because I had allergies. Smallpox was wiped out in the late 70s anyway, although I would not be too surprised if the filthy breeder pigs somehow manage to bring it back. If they did I would get the shot. I got the chicken pox vaccine when I was 27 because it was not available until then, and I never had the chicken pox. I don't remember anyone having any of the childhood diseases except chickenpox. Generation X was way healthier than the current crop of brats.
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Cambion
Don't parents need to actually prove that they're, y'know, not retarded in order to home school? Like don't they need to get curricula approved and all that?
I think this is why unschooling became a thing. Dumb parents don't feel like sending their kids to school, but they also don't feel like teaching them anything themselves, so they keep them home and proceed to teach them absolutely fuck-all, or they do "child-led learning," which is when the child decides when, what, and how much they will learn... which, of course, means extensive lessons in cartoon binge watching, video games and snack consumption because no kid wants to learn actually useful things. I would love to know how unschooling isn't an act of truancy. Is it still truancy if the parent knows the kid is home and/or willingly keeps them home? I honestly haven't a clue.
Unfortunately, a vast majority of homeschoolers and unschoolers aren't doing it in the child's best interests. They're doing it so they can foist religion on them and ignore things like science and history, or because it's too much effort to fight with Junior for three hours every morning trying to make him get up and get dressed for school.
Here's hoping California (and other states) continue to chip away at anti-vaxxers' options so these assholes have no choice but to either live off the grid or just get their kids their damn shots. I don't know WTF is wrong with these people. There's a polio-like illness spreading among kids all over the country and it's still not scaring these parents into vaccinating (not that this new bug has a preventative treatment or cure)?
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JohnDrake
Good to see something being done about the antivax problem however, this will probably make matters worse. Seems like lately, conservative media is demonizing California these days. Seems like everything about California is wrong and everything about Texas is right. There are so many people who follow this stuff that it worries me it may only attract new people to the antivax movement.
Re: California bans personal belief exemptions for childhood vaccinations February 21, 2019 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 9,973 |
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Cambion
I am seeing some stuff in health headlines lately about some places considering not even allowing religious exemptions in light of all the measles outbreaks, so hopefully soon people won't be able to use their imaginary friends as scapegoats for child neglect. One step closer to mandatory vaccinations!
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Cambion
Not to mention, what kind of a shit parent would look at their child whom they allegedly love and go, "Y'know, I think I'd rather have you get sick for weeks/months instead of having you be uncomfortable for two seconds from a shot?" Most decent parents would far prefer prevention to illness, but then we aren't talking about decent parents. Sometimes I wonder if they want their kids to get sick for a while so they're easier to deal with.