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El_Johns

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26. OK, CDC & Cal Dept of health are just a waste of the taxpayers' money. They don't know what's

Wed Jan 22, 2014, 04:24 AM

Jan 2014

happening even though the personal beliefs exemption is an official document.

Quick Fact: In 2012 the personal belief exemption became more restrictive in that there is an additional requirement of a signature from a health care practitioner to obtain the exemption. Effective Jan. 1, 2014 parents, guardians and empancipated minors must now obtain this additional signature when filing with the governing authority the necessary documents that state which vaccinations have not been given on the basis that they are contrary to his or her beliefs. When the law was amended for this change, Governor Brown also issued an executive order directing the health department to include a separate religious exemption on the new exemption form.

http://www.nvic.org/Vaccine-Laws/state-vaccine-requirements/california.aspx

Or...maybe there just aren't that many "very wealthy schools" when compared to the general population.

That's why they call it the 1%.

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The toll of the anti-vaccination movement, in one devastating graphic. [View all] JaneyVee Jan 2014 OP

The willfully stupid Ohio Joe Jan 2014 #1

Or in one misleading graphic, perhaps. El_Johns Jan 2014 #2

That graph stops at 2008 kcr Jan 2014 #4

It never particularly went down. And it's been above 90% for a long time. El_Johns Jan 2014 #6

Not my graphic kcr Jan 2014 #35

By including everything back to 1954, the scale makes it a little hard to see what's happening. TrollBuster9090 Jan 2014 #13

The foreshortened scale also makes it hard to see what's happening. 1988-1991 there was also El_Johns Jan 2014 #20

And that is the key graph. nt stevenleser Jan 2014 #33

Oh, Hannah. Are you really arguing in favour of the anti-vaccination movement?... SidDithers Jan 2014 #36

I got Whooping Cough in my early 40's....2002 alittlelark Jan 2014 #3

It's one thing to be a moron. These people are dangerous morons. alcibiades_mystery Jan 2014 #5

That, PLUS the rampant paranoia and distrust of 'government' and authority. In the old days, if TrollBuster9090 Jan 2014 #8

Dont you dare try to connect the two! davidn3600 Jan 2014 #11

The fact that government doesn't respect our privacy or our constitutional rights, and police TrollBuster9090 Jan 2014 #14

Are all those un-vaccinated kids being home-schooled? ReRe Jan 2014 #7

I dunno, but it's probably different now, because, you know ... brett_jv Jan 2014 #9

I know... ReRe Jan 2014 #12

Take your pick. There are at least 13 other things correlated with the rise of autism. TrollBuster9090 Jan 2014 #17

Thanks for that list... ReRe Jan 2014 #19

They've forgotten two other things. De Leonist Jan 2014 #23

The amniotic fluid has become a soup of countless industrial chemicals Hekate Jan 2014 #16

It probably has less to do with external influences Lordquinton Jan 2014 #21

In CA homeschooled kids have the same vaccine requirement as public or private schooled kids, LeftyMom Jan 2014 #18

MMR coverage of California children 19-35 mo was 94% in 2007. El_Johns Jan 2014 #22

+1 dreamnightwind Jan 2014 #24

The school by school exemption data tells a very different story. LeftyMom Jan 2014 #25

OK, CDC & Cal Dept of health are just a waste of the taxpayers' money. They don't know what's El_Johns Jan 2014 #26

The subthread was about school admission requirements and you're posting data about toddlers. LeftyMom Jan 2014 #27

I posted data about children up to 7th grade. El_Johns Jan 2014 #28

Marin county's exemption rate is 7.8% The very data you're posting show that you're wrong. LeftyMom Jan 2014 #30

But those prosperous white people aren't sufficiently numerous to affect total rates much. El_Johns Jan 2014 #31

CRE is a much bigger threat. Resistant to every anti-biotic , ErikJ Jan 2014 #10

Hadn't heard that name, so I looked it up ... brett_jv Jan 2014 #15

Whooping Cough Outbreak in North Texas dem in texas Jan 2014 #29

Jenny McCarthy should go back to picking boogers on MTV. longship Jan 2014 #32

+1 davidpdx Jan 2014 #34

DU rec...nt SidDithers Jan 2014 #37