State lawmakers pushing for laxer vaccine rules despite measles outbreaks
Source: Politico
'We still get messages that say these diseases are good for you,' says one Oregon lawmaker who opposes efforts to let more parents opt out.
By VICTORIA COLLIVER 03/03/2019 07:05 AM EST
Measles is spreading from New York to Texas to Washington state in the worst outbreak in years, but some state lawmakers want to take the vaccination debate in the opposite direction: Loosening rules covering whether kids get inoculated.
In Oregon, state lawmakers will consider a so-called transparency bill favored by the "vaccine hesitant." New York is simultaneously considering eliminating and expanding exemptions that allow parents to opt out. One bill in Texas would prohibit the state from even tracking exemptions.
The push to loosen the rules is occurring even as the U.S. has experienced more than 160 measles cases in 10 states since Jan. 1, including 74 in Washington state and Oregon linked to the outbreak in the Pacific Northwest, according to the states and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The outbreaks have turned 2019 into one of the most active years for vaccine policy in recent memory, inspiring several states to try to toughen their vaccination mandates with the aim of stemming future outbreaks. Yet some legislators are advocating giving parents more control over whether their children need to be vaccinated..........................................
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/03/measles-outbreak-vaccination-1192887
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groundloop
(11,519 posts)riversedge
(70,214 posts)Solly Mack
(90,765 posts)durablend
(7,460 posts)Nothing to see here
Traildogbob
(8,739 posts)I believe if you do not want to vaccinate, do not believe in science, then you are restricted to Devos Jesus schools. Keep the diseases confined to them and let em cure their pandemics with thoughts and prayers. Buh, bye✋👏🏽
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)It's their innocent children.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)and the immune-compromised,
and the immune-suppressed
and people with auto-immune disorders
and pregnant women
Need I continue ?
All these anti-vaxxer morons were all themselves vaccinated.
Here in Washington State, we are still struggling with the measles outbreak. A few years ago, we had a pertussis epidemic. PERTUSSIS, FFS. Whooping cough.
Some body (as in government health body) needs to bitch slap these idiots out of their stupidity.
Traildogbob
(8,739 posts)As it is with everything far right wing, or actually just right wing, a small % of the population are willing to screw everyone for their idiotic ideals, a they are stealing elections. When that screwing starts hitting the 40% of eligible voters that do not give a damn about voting, we may have a chance. Tornado outbreak in the south killing 24 followed by record cold, fake news, science is "lies from the gates of hell", a quote by a GOP congressMAN. Vaccines......evil science from hell. Climate change, lies!!
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Anti-vaxxer politicians overturned a law on compulsory vaccinations against measles and now the country is in the throw of an epidemic.
Traildogbob
(8,739 posts)Wait until the tropical diseases start migrating north. Those southern red staters will start dropping faster than Lindsay Graham at a 24/7 truck stop at 2 AM. At least we can watch and say told ya, before it kills us a little north. Not much we can do with good ole AmurKKKan health care. Pharmo's will price gauge.
progree
(10,907 posts)christx30
(6,241 posts)from living as they would like. They are for big government when it prevents people from living how they like.
All politics is like this. No one likes restrictions on them. They love restrictions on others.
jpak
(41,757 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)And let nature clean out the shallow end of the gene pool.
Nitram
(22,800 posts)epidemics. Unfortunately, people who can't get vaccinated because of compromised immune systems, will also be affected. But in states where vaccination is required, herd immunity will be much higher and outbreaks less likely. Red states will suffer a decrease in population and their representation in the House will be decreased.
yardwork
(61,607 posts)Nitram
(22,800 posts)ck4829
(35,075 posts)The way I see it, it seems as though people on the left would be anti-vax because they think vaccines are not natural while people on the right see themselves as genetically superior and dont NEED vaccines and their parents got measles and they turned out OK... never mind the uncle who died from it.
yardwork
(61,607 posts)There is a global anti-vax movement promoted by Putin, whose purpose is to undermine stability and interrupt collaboration among countries. The anti-vax propaganda is creating a crisis among NGOs in Africa and other under-resourced parts of the world.
When I see people on both the left and right who have been influenced by anti-vax propaganda, I assume that they're being influenced by targeted approaches to them from the same source. The propaganda is tailored to people's' beliefs.
This is the same pattern we saw during the 2016 presidential election.
ck4829
(35,075 posts)Pathogens dont respect borders and getting rid of them requires international cooperation.
Disease elimination and eradication is also a noble goal because it says despite national, economic, religious, and other differences there should be a freedom from disease that *all* humans should have.
I think the less united our world is, Putins regime gathers strength. Nationalism is his greatest weapon.
MBS
(9,688 posts)Put it well: People who resist vaccinations for themselves or their children do not understand the seriousness of these diseases.
The other problem is that, over the 35-40 years - in some ways you could argue that its been THE problem in our society from 1980 onward-is that weve lost the concept of the common good.
Refusal to vaccinate is essentially a selfish decision.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)MBS
(9,688 posts)People seem to have literally lost their minds.
TrogL
(32,822 posts)They are not good for you.
moonseller66
(430 posts)A page right out of the Third Reich's Book.
This poster is from the 1930s, and promotes the Nazi monthly Neues Volk (New People}, the organ of the partys racial office. The text reads: This genetically ill person will cost our peoples community 60,000 marks over his lifetime. Citizens, that is your money. Read Neues Volk, the monthly of the racial policy office of the NSDAP.
NickB79
(19,236 posts)Something like the 1918 flu, or a novel virus like the movie Contagion. Really wake people up and see how precarious their lives really are without modern medicine, and how they take it for granted.
yardwork
(61,607 posts)It's a marker of how well Russian propaganda has infiltrated communities in the U.S., among people on both the left and right wings.
Anti-vaxers are getting their information from a highly suspect source.
ck4829
(35,075 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Call me callous; I don't care. Vaccines have been working for many decades.
There is no equivalency between the science, and the opinions of anti-vaxxers.
I am 100% behind a government mandate for vaccination.
Where did this "movement" come from?
Are there really that many people like this in our society?