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Speaking of homeschooling... What if all the unvaccinated kids were taken out of public school. Considering the huge reaction in Cali, I suppose it's a possibility. Could the school districts take that kind of financial hit?
Could this actually backfire on the public school system?
If they want to exercise their beliefs they can sacrifice their tax money.
Where I live, property taxes foot most of the bill for schools. To my knowledge there are no tax breaks for vaxxers.
I don't even have any kids, but I have zero problem paying for schools because someone paid for me. So, no exceptions!
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If you choose not to vaccinate your child and they contract any one of these preventable illnesses IT WILL BE YOUR FAULT.
Someone just died from measels. First in many years.
I'm not going to engage in a war over mandatory vaccines. I am coming at this as someone who, like the victim, takes powerful immunosuppressants. This story makes me extremely fearful, because I am extremely vulnerable to infection. I think about the potential for this every day of my life. Other people go about their daily lives without a thought to other people sneezing or coughing or wiping their runny noses with their bare hands and then handling the produce at the grocery store. I am not so fortunate, because fate and genetics gave me this crappy disease. It sucks. Big time.
I feel for you and am sorry you have health issues, however I am not talking about vaccines. I am talking about the article. It was designed to make you fearful.
Several months ago this woman died yet the article comes out right after the CA bill...
I feel for you and am sorry you have health issues, however I am not talking about vaccines. I am talking about the article. It was designed to make you fearful.
Several months ago this woman died yet the article comes out right after the CA bill...
I have every reason to be fearful, and I've known that since the day I started my meds. Whether or not the article makes you fearful is not something I can control.
If they want to exercise their beliefs they can sacrifice their tax money.
Where I live, property taxes foot most of the bill for schools. To my knowledge there are no tax breaks for vaxxers.
I don't even have any kids, but I have zero problem paying for schools because someone paid for me. So, no exceptions!
I was talking about funding when there are less students. If there are less students and the school gets less funding.. teachers laid off etc.
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Someone just died from measels. First in many years.
Go to the thread about it and you will see my critique of that article. The woman supposedly died months ago but we are just hearing about it now right after the CA bill passes...
I have every reason to be fearful, and I've known that since the day I started my meds. Whether or not the article makes you fearful is not something I can control.
Again you missed the point of my comments. Hope you recover.
In most places homeschoolers pay taxes, not being in the school system means they don't have to educate them so it could be a really good thing from a cost perspective. I could be wrong about the funding model in California.
If all those homeschooled kids hang out together, the risk to each and every one of them contracting one of the diseases vaccines prevent increases. If you look at the outbreaks, they most often have affected pockets of unvaccinated kids.
I don't want any kid to get sick, but the anti-vax movement has only gained traction because the vast majority of moms with young kids have no idea what the diseases vaccines prevent were actually like - if groups of unvaccinated kids spend time together, their parents will find out and have no one to blame but themselves (as well as creating risk for a bunch of other folks whose kids have medical conditions preventing them from vaccinating or are too young).
Here's a quote from the author Roald Dahl about his daughter's death from measles at age 7 (before vaccines were available).
If you choose not to vaccinate your child and they contract any one of these preventable illnesses IT WILL BE YOUR FAULT.
Not Jenny McCarthy's, not the pharmaceutical industry. It will be the fault of the parent who could have saved their child from the type of death Roald Dahl's daughter had, and didn't.
I didn't mean taxes but where those taxes are allocated.
I didn't miss it. You think the the case is being used to pressure the public into supporting mandatory vaccinations. I'm not interested in debating that point. For me, the story is personal. Being immunocompromised affects my day-to-day life. This woman's case of measles went undiagnosed because she was on immunosuppressant drugs. That could have been me. It will be a happy, happy day when I'm in remission, and I can go on with my life without having to worry about every random sneeze. Thank you for your well wishes. My next test is in a couple of weeks, and I'm very hopeful that it will be good news.
Vaccinate your kid, save them from life threatening illnesses, do your part to protect society's most vulnerable and send your kid to school to connect with their peers. My hope is that other jurisdictions do the same.
Every piece of evidence points to the benefits being exponentially greater than any risk, and if you're not willing to do it, your child is lucky the government has mandates.
Sorry, but not everyone blindly follows the government because the government supposedly knows best. We have religious objections to certain vaccines, and CA won't allow those anymore. Therefore, our kids would be home schooled in this states. Forget freedom of religion. (Children don't have to go to school in order to connect with their peers.)
I didn't miss it. You think the the case is being used to pressure the public into supporting mandatory vaccinations. I'm not interested in debating that point. For me, the story is personal. Being immunocompromised affects my day-to-day life. This woman's case of measles went undiagnosed because she was on immunosuppressant drugs. That could have been me. It will be a happy, happy day when I'm in remission, and I can go on with my life without having to worry about every random sneeze.
The article being propaganda is just wrong whether measles or some other political agenda... don't you want to see truth or just any trumped up story they want to feed you?
Also, I have always been curious if someone like you who is immunocompromised relies on others to not sneeze on them or do you take your own precautions?
I was talking about funding when there are less students. If there are less students and the school gets less funding.. teachers laid off etc.
As long as they still pay, I don't care.
It's up to the government to allocate it. All they need to do is change how schools are funded. Problem easily solved.
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Go to the thread about it and you will see my critique of that article. The woman supposedly died months ago but we are just hearing about it now right after the CA bill passes...
Anyone who dies of measels is news.
If someone gets polio the poop's really gonna hit the fan. I mean REALLY hit the fan.
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