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California passes bill, forcing all children to get vaccinated pre-kindergarten
- DigitalSea 11y agoI absolutely applaud what California have done here. Currently Australia is facing a similar epidemic where the anti-vaccination is gaining traction, so much so, the government recently passed legislation stripping those on government benefits of their entitlements if they choose not to vaccinate. Everything has a risk, but the risks from NOT vaccinating your children is higher than the potential risk of vaccinating your children. Heck, there are people who believe the government put fluoride into tap water to dumb down its citizens to control them. If only science could find a cure for stupidity.
- ghshephard 11y agoThe title is slightly incorrect, California is not forcing all children to get vaccinated pre-kindergarten. What they are doing is making a precondition of entering a public school, that your child be vaccinated. One important reason is to not expose other children, some of whom might not be able to be vaccinated because of medical reasons. Children who medically shouldn't be vaccinated, will clearly not be required to be vaccinated (California maintains the medical exemption), and, those children will be able to hopefully be protected by herd immunity in California now that the other children who can be safely vaccinated are vaccinated. A slightly more accurate (if less punchier) title would have been: "Children entering public school now required to be vaccinated unless medically exempt"
- walterbell 11y agoPrevious discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9550914 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9550914