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SunSeeker

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5. "How can the herd be protected if 80% or more of adults haven’t had their shots?"
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 12:53 PM
Feb 2015

If this purported "fact" from this private equity fund vulture is true, then that is all the more reason to pass this bill, the sooner the better.

Not vaccinating your kids, unless their doctor says they shouldn't be vaccinated, is child neglect.

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Can't pass soon enough! SunSeeker Feb 2015 #1
The only places "in the free world" with such a policy are MS and WV. And CA & OR are next, really? proverbialwisdom Feb 2015 #2
Fuck JB Handley and his unscientific crankery. Spider Jerusalem Feb 2015 #3
^^^THIS^^^ COLGATE4 Feb 2015 #4
"How can the herd be protected if 80% or more of adults haven’t had their shots?" SunSeeker Feb 2015 #5
Fuck that libertarian bullshit. NuclearDem Feb 2015 #7
From the poster that thinks Andrew Wakefield will be the Carl Sagan of his generation... SidDithers Feb 2015 #8
Oregon Update. proverbialwisdom Mar 2015 #19
Details matter. Know the stats. proverbialwisdom Mar 2015 #20
Updates. proverbialwisdom Mar 2015 #24
Great analysis. proverbialwisdom Apr 2015 #34
Oregon Update: Senator drops Oregon vaccine mandate bill proverbialwisdom Mar 2015 #21
More. proverbialwisdom Mar 2015 #23
AP: Bills Banning Most Vaccine Exemptions Fail in Northwest proverbialwisdom Mar 2015 #22
North Carolina "vaccine bill" officially withdrawn for this legislative session. proverbialwisdom Apr 2015 #30
I'll be contacting my State Rep (Mark Ridley-Thomas) and KingCharlemagne Feb 2015 #6
DU rec... SidDithers Feb 2015 #9
Texas legislator faces prickly crowd on vaccination exemptions; NCSL, what's that? proverbialwisdom Feb 2015 #10
This is good news. HappyMe Feb 2015 #11
Washington state panel OKs bill to trim vaccine exemptions proverbialwisdom Feb 2015 #12
This has been a wake-up call. I hope it passes. nt Hekate Feb 2015 #13
Bill would tighten rules for vaccine exemptions in Illinois proverbialwisdom Feb 2015 #14
Whoa. proverbialwisdom Feb 2015 #15
WebMD: Survey Finds Support for Vaccine Opt-Out Laws proverbialwisdom Feb 2015 #16
"Even in CA, measles outbreak & all, only 2.5 % of kindergartners this year had a non-med exemption" proverbialwisdom Feb 2015 #17
But they are generally clustered in the same areas. RandySF Feb 2015 #18
Talk about clusters? "Los Alamos schools top NM in vaccine exemptions" reports Albuquerque Journal. proverbialwisdom Mar 2015 #25
Informed consent is the framing, as displayed by widely heralded author of "On Immunity," Eula Biss. proverbialwisdom Mar 2015 #26
Will a mass exodus of families from the state occur if this bill becomes law, or will CA turn red? proverbialwisdom Apr 2015 #27
Hearing live now (CA Senate Health Committee on 4/8). Update added 4/21/15. proverbialwisdom Apr 2015 #28
SB277 goes to Educ 4/15 9am. Developing... (nt) proverbialwisdom Apr 2015 #29
Hearing live now (CA Senate Education Committee on 4/15). Update added 4/20/15. proverbialwisdom Apr 2015 #32
Related: ACLU of California SB 277 analysis proverbialwisdom Apr 2015 #31
SacBee: California vaccine bill stalls proverbialwisdom Apr 2015 #33
Watch previous hearings here. Tech serves the public well in California! proverbialwisdom Apr 2015 #35
Updates. proverbialwisdom Apr 2015 #36
And it's out of the Senate Education Committee, 7-2. (nt) proverbialwisdom Apr 2015 #37
Live webcast of CA Senate at 9 PST to include vote on #SB277. proverbialwisdom May 2015 #38
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