Mayor declares public health emergency following measles outbreak in Brooklyn's orthodox communities

[brooklynite]

Source: Brooklyn Paper

Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a public health emergency at Brooklyn Public Library’s Williamsburg Branch Tuesday morning in response to the growing spread of the measles virus in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish communities, where nearly 300 people have fallen ill with the potentially fatal disease since October.

“We cannot allow this dangerous disease to make a comeback in New York City,” said de Blasio. “We have to stop it now.”

The mayor’s emergency declaration mandates that residents of four Williamsburg zip codes — 11205, 11206, 11211, and 11249 — must seek vaccination, or face Department of Health violations and fines totaling as much as $1,000 per unvaccinated person.

The emergency declaration follows a previously announced Department of Health exclusion order barring unvaccinated children from attending schools and day cares within both Williamsburg and Borough Park, and demonstrates a shift in the city’s focus to combating the disease in the northern Brooklyn neighborhood, where the majority of new measles cases have been discovered, according to de Blasio.

Read more: https://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/42/15/all-emergency-measles-decleration-2019-04-12-bk.html

[ck4829]

1. K&R

[hlthe2b]

2. Good! K&R

[marybourg]

3. Wasn't there a court order overturning the

previous ban on unvaccinated children attending school in nyc?

[Princess Turandot]

4. That happened in Rockland County, not NYC

The judge decided that the local outbreak there did not rise to an 'emergency'.

[marybourg]

12. Oh, thanx.

[YOHABLO]

13. If these are Orthodox Jewish children, would they go to a private school? Not public?

[marybourg]

14. The City has authority over private as well

as public schools. But as noted above, it was not nyc, but upstate Rockland C.ounty

[irisblue]

5. Good

Anti Vaxers are dangerous.

[The Mouth]

7. They should be treated like terrorists or gangsters

[The Mouth]

6. No mercy.

They can, and should, treat all anti-vaxxers exactly like this:

Get the kid shots, in a timeframe measured in minutes, or here's a van to take your new newly disenfranchised ass over the border to your choice of Canada or Mexico; no questions, no exemptions, no explanations.

I could not possibly care less about any cultural or religious objections or considerations.

[sarisataka]

9. Well, that's an idea.

Do Canada or Mexico get any say in receiving our disease ridden detritus?

[The Mouth]

10. Helll, give 'em a choice of any country

just get them the hell out of ours.

[oneshooter]

11. Does the same hold true if they came from Africa? n/t

[The Mouth]

15. ?

Sorry, I don't follow.

Thanks

[MineralMan]

8. Once again, religion trumps the public good.

Enough!

[packman]

16. More like stupidity trumps (pun there) the public good

But separating religion from stupidity or stupidity from religion is a daunting and somewhat futile task.

[MineralMan]

17. I saw a couple of interviews this morning with

two orthodox Jews from Brooklyn. One was a woman who had not vaccinated her children, all of whom had contracted the measles. She said "My personal beliefs prohibit me from vaccinating." The other was an orthodox Rabbi, who said that the Torah doesn't speak at all about vaccination, so there was no rule against vaccinating children.

Perhaps the mother should have asked her Rabbi.