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Australia To Ban Unvaccinated Children From Preschool (newscientist.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the quarantine-zone dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from New Scientist: No-jab, no play. So says the Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, who has announced that unvaccinated children will be barred from attending preschools and daycare centers. Currently, 93 percent of Australian children receive the standard childhood vaccinations, including those for measles, mumps and rubella, but the government wants to lift this to 95 percent. This is the level required to stop the spread of infectious disease and to protect children who are too young to be immunized or cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons. Childcare subsidies have been unavailable to the families of unvaccinated children since January 2016, and a version of the new "no jab, no play" policy is already in place in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. Other states and territories only exclude unvaccinated children from preschools during infectious disease outbreaks. The proposed policy is based on Victoria's model, which is the strictest. It requires all children attending childcare to be fully immunized, unless they have a medical exemption, such as a vaccine allergy.

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  1. no jab by turkeydance · · Score: -1, Troll

    no hijab

  2. Big Upside by h33t+l4x0r · · Score: -1, Troll

    The RFIDs that the vaccines contain for tracking citizens should make taking attendance a lot easier.

  3. Re:Pathetic by misexistentialist · · Score: -1, Troll

    more or less risk than self-colonization with thousands of fundamentalists from Islamic State? Apparently your grandparents were misguided, because there are no countries anymore, just a world government ruling over a rabble of slaves, and with no power comes no responsibility

  4. Re: Banning children of uneducated parent from sch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Seattle is the most educated city on the planet so of course we stand against vaccinations.

  5. Good, but Australia is nanny state. by bongey · · Score: -1, Troll

    Having seen many episodes of Border Security: Australia's Front Line, they are absolutely a nanny state.

    Crazy nanny state things that Australia actually does
    1) Immigration checkpoints around airports checking all taxi drivers. Can you ever imagine that in the US? Nope because it is against the law.
    2) A slingshot is very serious weapon, you can put someones eye out with it.
    3) A taser can kill someone.
    4) Killing endanger species viable eggs because you didn't just ask the smuggler what they are and decided you have to kill them by freezing them instantly.
    5) Drug testing machines used at every airport that have about a 50% false positive rate.