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Ontario Parents Refusing To Vaccinate Their Children Could Be Forced to Take Science Class (qz.com)
Ontario is considering making parents who choose to not vaccinate their children for non-medical reasons take a science class. The health ministry of Canada's most populous province has proposed a bill which would force those parents sit through the education session before applying for a vaccine exemption. In the class, they will be taught about the importance of vaccination for their children. Quartz offers more context: Ontario was the first province in Canada to introduce immunization laws (PDF) in 1982, which required children attending school be vaccinated against certain diseases -- including diphtheria, tetanus, polio, and measles -- unless they have a signed exemption. After routine immunization was introduced, cases of those diseases dramatically reduced.
Parents who apply for an exemption (PDF) for non-medical reasons risk having their child pulled from school if there's an outbreak, or the immediate risk of an outbreak, of a designated disease.
You are totally insane. You are blaming the presence of disease on the innocent. It was not by any wrong action of theirs that they become contaminated. It was by wrong action of the state, acting out of ravenous greed, importing countless people from all over the world to drive down the cost of labor, and it's failure to screen for disease.
People do not desire the freedom to move abroad as much as they desire the freedom to live their lives naturally in their own homes.
That is, unless the are wealthy and don't value their home. Which are you?
That usually just means that they memorized a bunch of shit in their specific field.
I know a few complete morons with masters degrees. Mostly lit or art, but that still qualifies them as "above average in an academic sense".
That is not intelligence.
That is arrogance.
Being intelligent, means you know how to make yourself informed.
Being smart means you do it.
We are not talking about intelligent people here.
We are talking about stupid, arrogant bastards.
Death has been proven to be 99% fatal in lab rats.
While immunization doesn't have the urgency of a blood transfusion, it still represents a significant personal and public health risk to have people not vaccinating their kids, so yes, I think, whether it is "helpful" or not, there should be clear limits on the medical interventions that parents can have the power to deny their children.
You can "think" anything you want, but frankly fuck you...
My children are not yours to raise, you can take your opinions and shove them where the son doesn't shine... I would defend my children to the death and if you come to try and force medical crap on them, you'll have to kill me to get to them and I'll take at least one person with me...