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> Never before have I seen restaurants and hospitals requiring me to show proof of a particular medical treatment before they will serve me. Perhaps because pr
by throw0101a 5y ago
> Never before have I seen restaurants and hospitals requiring me to show proof of a particular medical treatment before they will serve me.
Perhaps because previously everyone (or "enough" people) were required to get particular medical treatments (i.e., vaccinations) to get into kindergarten, and that it was just assumed that 'everyone' had the vaccinations—or at least anyone who go into and graduated kindergarten. The only change is a new disease that previously did not exist so there was no vaccine for it, so we all had to get it all at once now.
Rules for my local jurisdiction:
> Unless they have a valid exemption, children who attend primary or secondary school must be immunized against: diphtheria, tetanus, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, meningitis (meningococcal disease), whooping cough (pertussis), chickenpox (varicella) – required for children born in 2010 or later.
* https://www.ontario.ca/page/vaccines-children-school https://www.ontario.ca/page/vaccines-children-school
I'm also amused by current members in the military objecting to having to get the COVID vaccine… when you had to get a whole bunch of vaccinations to join in the first place. And this is nothing new: in the US, General George Washington had mandates.
- areyousure 5y agoYour link requires children to be "immunized" against the diseases, which presumably does not mean "vaccinated". (For example, I have never had a chickenpox vaccine.)
- kcplate 5y agoThe thing that I think people are missing in this whole situation isn’t that the government hasn’t had immunization mandates before, but how it’s trying to implement this one. There are definitely exemptions to it, and some of those exemptions appear to follow some historical political alliances (democrats and certain unions as an example). When you carve out exceptions based on politics instead of logic, people will resist. While I don’t like mandates, I would be less resistant to them if they were applied logically…or if short of logically—at least evenly.
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