California Senate Approves School Vaccine Bill

mpicpp writes: California state senators have passed a controversial bill designed to increase school immunization rates. SB277 would prohibit parents from seeking vaccine exemptions for their children because of religious or personal beliefs. California would join West Virginia and Mississippi as the only states with such requirements if the bill becomes law. "SB 277 is about increasing immunization rates so no one will have to suffer from vaccine-preventable diseases," said Sen. Ben Allen (D- Santa Monica) who coauthored the bill with Sen. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento).

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Does anyone else see the irony?

[grimmjeeper]

West Virginia and Mississippi being ahead of California in doing something involving common sense?

Re:Common sense prevails! (Only Partially!)

[atrimtab]

The federal laws passed in the mid-80s that insulate the responsibility of vaccine creating companies to flaws in their products needs to rescinded or heavily revised.

It is the fact that the companies creating these vaccines are largely not culpable for their products that has driven the anti-VAX movement. FIX THAT or this law will be ignored.

As it is California legislators basically gave a free pass to all current parents whose children have already aged passed the ages they were supposed to get vaccinated. Those children do not have to be vaccinated.

The legislators did that to defuse the daily protests by parents.

Re:Now if only the rest of the country would follo

[silas_moeckel]

Lets see Rotavirus CDC numbers is 1 in 20-100k require surgery after getting the vaccine. The actual disease you might need IV fluids and prevention is by washing hands.

I would call that fsking unsafe the vaccine has a much much worse potential outcome than the disease. The bill lets a committee pick any new vaccines they wish to require, ya know those sorts of places that nobody cares about and you end up with it stacking phama reps.

Remember that this becomes an everybody must use something, regardless of price or safety because an unelected committee said so. This is good why?

Do not get wrong plenty of vaccines even with the potential adverse side effects are no brainers. But giving an unelected committee the power to decide what medications your kids will take is idiotic and prone to abuse. Sure this is backlash from the measles gave my kid autism (BTW autism is far better than dead thanks) that does not mean it's right or justified.