Proposed Georgia law to get rid of all childhood vaccination requirements

[Nevilledog]

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Proposed Georgia law to get rid of all childhood vaccination requirements
17 Georgia state senators have proposed a new bill aimed at getting rid of all routine childhood vaccination requirements.
2:39 PM · Feb 7, 2022

https://www.wjcl.com/article/proposed-georgia-law-to-get-rid-of-all-childhood-vaccination-requirements/38977250

SAVANNAH, Ga. —
Seventeen Georgia state senators have proposed a new bill aimed at getting rid of all routine childhood vaccination requirements.

The bill was drafted on Jan. 14 and in it, the senators hope to make it illegal to check proof of vaccination. Right now, there are eight vaccines required by the Georgia Department of Health. This includes shots to prevent diseases like measles, mumps and chickenpox.

“We need these vaccinations they’ve kept us around for a long time,” Antonio Proctor said. “We need them. We need to continue to provide updates on the medicine I mean the kids are the future.”

Doctors say the requirements have kept children and adults safe from preventable diseases.

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[mopinko]

1. pure insanity.

[Demovictory9]

28. agreed!

[Ocelot II]

2. What could possibly go wrong?

[leftyladyfrommo]

3. Those poor kids. People have forgotten how

awful those childhood diseases were.

[MissMillie]

12. let's not forget that getting chicken pox

puts you at higher risk for getting shingles later in life.

I speak for experience... getting shingles is no picnic.

[leftyladyfrommo]

29. I have shingles pain right now. nt

[Hassin Bin Sober]

47. Reminds me. I need to schedule a shot!

[atreides1]

14. Well

In the United States, the courts viewed children as property until the early 1870s — when the sad case of an 8-year-old orphan girl captured the hearts of the nation.

Since no child protection advocacy groups existed at the time that the 8-year-old girl was suffering from abuse, lawyers from the the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) took up the case. These lawyers argued that if the law protected animals from abuse, it should protect children from abuse as well.

The court agreed with the ASPCA lawyer’s position, and ruled that the foster mother caring for the girl was guilty of assault and battery. She was sentenced to one year in jail. Several years later, in 1874, concerned community members created the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

I believe these conservative politicians and the parents that support...want to turn the clock back...to a time when a child was property!!!

This proposed legislation is an indicator that they care nothing for the health of children...

[gratuitous]

32. We don't have nearly so many children's graves as just 100 years ago

I guess some folks in Georgia miss those days?

[leftyladyfrommo]

33. Something like 60% of children used to die. nt

[Celerity]

41. Across the entire historical sample the authors found that on average, 26.9% of newborns died in

their first year of life and 46.2% died before they reached adulthood.

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What is striking about the historical estimates is how similar the mortality rates for children were across this very wide range of 43 historical cultures. Whether in Ancient Rome; Ancient Greece; the pre-Columbian Americas; Medieval Japan or Medieval England; the European Renaissance; or Imperial China: Every fourth newborn died in the first year of life. One out of two died in childhood.

The available evidence for the mortality rates of children in hunter-gatherer societies and also for our closest relatives – Neanderthals and primates – I summarize at the end of this post.

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https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past#additional-information



Child mortality in the United States 1800-2020

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041693/united-states-all-time-child-mortality-rate/

The child mortality rate in the United States, for children under the age of five, was 462.9 deaths per thousand births in 1800. This means that for every thousand babies born in 1800, over 46 percent did not make it to their fifth birthday. Over the course of the next 220 years, this number has dropped drastically, and the rate has dropped to its lowest point ever in 2020 where it is just seven deaths per thousand births. Although the child mortality rate has decreased greatly over this 220 year period, there were two occasions where it increased; in the 1870s, as a result of the fourth cholera pandemic, smallpox outbreaks, and yellow fever, and in the late 1910s, due to the Spanish Flu pandemic.

Characteristic Deaths per 1,000 live births

2020 7
2015 7
2010 8
2005 8
2000 9
1995 10
1990 12
1985 14
1980 17
1975 21
1970 26
1965 29
1960 31
1955 35
1950 40.11
1945 51.26
1940 66.35
1935 75.93
1930 102.86
1925 139.79
1920 184.93
1915 179.99
1910 206.92
1905 220.32
1900 238.76
1895 256.72
1890 281.68
1885 327.29
1880 347.49
1875 325.81
1870 316.5
1865 325.74
1860 343.53
1855 374.17
1850 399.27
1845 416.08
1840 430.12
1835 440.01
1830 447.87
1825 452.68
1820 456.65
1815 459.34
1810 461.35
1805 462.31
1800 462.89

[Biophilic]

4. Too stupid for words. Just stupid. Even politcally stupid. What more can I say? nt

[CrispyQ]

5. It's like the red states are in a competition to see who can be the meanest & the dumbest.

My money's on TX or FL for first place.

[Nevilledog]

6. Don't forget AZ

Legislature is about to defund the entire public school system because they're mad that voters passed Prop 208 which would raise taxes on the wealthy.

[CrispyQ]

18. I hadn't heard about that.

A three-way tie for mean & dumb.

[Nevilledog]

22. It's really bad.

In April the schools will be completely cut off from accessing funds to pay teachers. The money is already there, but without legislative approval they can't access it.

[patphil]

7. Getting rid of those vaccines would amount to deliberate, premeditated murder.

It would make the Republican government of Georgia the biggest mass murderers in the state's history...over time, the biggest mass murderers in the nations history.

[hlthe2b]

8. Not like GA is the home of CDC and all its expertise, after all. Pure insanity.

Kill yourselves RWers, not the rest of us and our kids.

[MissMillie]

9. Does GA (or any other state for that matter) require

inspections on motor vehicles used on public roads?

If our we have to prove that our vehicles are not a danger to public health or public/private propery, why not our bodies?

[brer cat]

17. No.

The counties in metro-Atlanta require emissions inspections, although there are exemptions for those.

[MissMillie]

20. OK... bad argument

Here in MA, your brakes have to work, your lights and directionals have to work, the wipers have to work, the horn has to work, AND you have to pass emissions. Hell, you even have to have a working light over your license plate.

[BeckyDem]

10. Brainwashed beyond repair?

Possibly.

I have no remedy for this except to vote in more Democrats and keep a supermajority for as long as it takes.

[Delmette2.0]

39. Would that be like FUBAR?

[BeckyDem]

54. I think that could fit! lol

[Probatim]

11. Someone posted a mem the other day about childhood vaccinations.

We know they work because there aren't cemeteries full of children any more.

[c-rational]

13. Lunacy. nt

[Deep State Witch]

15. Go To Any Old Cemetery

Go to any older cemetery, like pre-1900s. Look how many childrens' graves there are. Do the people of Georgia want that again? Because that's how you get kids dying of preventable diseases.

[MerryBlooms]

16. If that bill becomes law, those childhood diseases will spread like a wildfire

throughout the world. Atlanta is a major hub and the flights coming and going would carry ticking time bombs that would go off within days. Oh, these horrible cruel people... No bar is too low for them to slither under.

[Hoyt]

19. It's not going to pass. The ignorant author of the bill has already changed his tune.

"I think the whooping cough and polio and measles, they probably need to stay the same. Because we’ve nearly eradicated a lot of that," Sen. Jeff Mullis said. Sen. Mullis said he will rewrite the bill – but intends to still try to make it illegal for schools to require COVID vaccines. "I’m talking about COVID only," he said.

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/anti-vaccination-bill-georgia-senate/85-dabc52a2-9af8-464d-835b-ff41651725ef

[Nevilledog]

24. They'll keep trying.....Florida had also been flirting with this idea.

[MerryBlooms]

25. Thanks for the update.

[demigoddess]

26. stupid beyond words. so it okay to vaccinate for other diseases but not covid??

[Calista241]

21. fuck me. I fucking live here.

[crickets]

48. I hear you.

It's nuts and terrifies me on behalf of unprotected children. I've been meaning to get the shingles shot and a tetanus booster. I guess I'll add an MMR booster to the list.

[Hekate]

23. Rubella

[chowder66]

27. Why not just stick these people in a hermetically sealed warehouse, inject them with every virus

and whoever is left standing wins an " I owned the Liberals" t-shirt.

[tinrobot]

30. And up next -- Polio comes roaring back in Georgia!

Better stock up on iron lungs.

[spanone]

31. They will kill us all.

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bet everyone of those fuckers call themselves 'pro life'.

goddamn morons.

[peggysue2]

34. Oh yes!

Please, take us back to the good ole days when children died in droves or were left permanently disabled/maimed by every disease in the book. Bring us to the glory of women having 8-10 kids with the hope a couple would survive to adulthood.

While we're at it why don't we get rid of antibiotics?

Because life was grand in the Golden Age. Only the strong survive.

These people are nutwads!

[jeffreyi]

35. Measles can wreck your eyesight.

To inflict that on children is insane. I would not have had coke-bottle nearsightedness my whole life had the vaccine been available.

[11 Bravo]

36. The Dedicated, Informed, Educated - Keeping Infections Durable and Strong Act.

AKA: The DIE KIDS Act

[budkin]

37. OH MY GOD

I was wondering when they would pivot to this.

[Voltaire2]

38. Killing kids for muh freedumbs.

[BlueIdaho]

40. I hope surrounding states

Put up barriers to block the plague rats from spreading.

[LiberatedUSA]

42. So they want the Renaissance Festival to be more authentic. N/t

[Skittles]

43. they are "pro-life" and "pro-disease"

that is some fucked up shit right there

[FlyingPiggy]

44. Wow. That is just sheer insanity. WTF is wrong w people?!?!!

[turbinetree]

45. Next up bring back the frickn plague just get rid of all the vaccines....

MMR (measles, mumps, rubella)
Polio
DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis)
Chickenpox/varicella
A yearly flu shot*
Hepatitis B

The average 11- to 12-year-old should receive these immunizations before school:

Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis)
Human Papillomavirus (HPV, two doses for those under 15 years old, or three doses for those over 15)
Meningitis (MCV4)
A yearly flu shot*

Georgia deserves better right along with the rest of the country....

[Crunchy Frog]

46. So they're both pro fetus and pro rubella.

Interesting circle to try to square there.

[struggle4progress]

49. Litany for Dictatorships

... We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
We thought the long train would run to the end of Time.
We thought the light would increase.
Now the long train stands derailed and the bandits loot it.
Now the boar and the asp have power in our time.
Now the night rolls back on the West and the night is solid.
Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth.

Our children know and suffer the armed men.

Stephen Vincent Benet (1935)

[iemanja]

50. Oh, Great. Let's reintroduce small pox

and polio into the population. Cretins.

[Hekate]

51. And the adults will be SO surprised when Gawd's Will turns out to involve dead & maimed children

Jesus Christ on a Trailer Hitch, how did we get to be so effing stupid?

[Nevilledog]

52. For those not in the know......

I'm kinda liking Crucified Christmas Christ

[Hekate]

53. Thank you very much. So much grotesquery in American religious iconography...

It beggars the imagination, doesn’t it?