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Australia is going to ban unvaccinated children from attending childcare centers
- flukus 10y agoLet's just get this out of the way because it comes up every time, herd immunity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity). If it was just a personal choice I'd be more than happy to see your kids drop dead because they aren't vaccinated, but it's not just your kids, if you don't vaccinate you're harming other kids, including future generations.
- sdwisely 10y agoexactly. As an Australian living in an area with many recent measles outbreaks in schools that doctors blame anti-vacination campaigners for (admittedly there is not enough research at this point to conclusively blame this solely) I'm all for this. Our area also has a very large elderly population that are being put at risk because of this.
- jaimex2 10y agoShould mention as well that if you don't vaccinate your kids here in Australia you also lose all government child support entitlements.
- iamkarlson 10y agoSeriously??! I haven't know that!
- iamkarlson 10y agodo u have any proofs?
- tony-allan 10y agohttps://www.dss.gov.au/our-responsibilities/families-and-children/benefits-payments/strengthening-immunisation-for-young-children https://www.dss.gov.au/our-responsibilities/families-and-chi...
- jaimex2 10y agoThanks, best bloody thing our government has done in ages.