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New York Bans Unvaccinated Children From Going To School And Their Anti-Vaxx Parents Are Furious

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This summer, during the worst measles outbreak in decades, New York passed a law that ended religious exemptions to vaccinations for children in public schools.

Parents were given a two week grace period after the start of school to provide vaccination records or their kids wouldn’t be kicked out. As that grace period nears its end, many parents begin to fight back, furious that the law is actually being upheld.

New York Bans Unvaccinated Children From Going To School And Their Anti-Vaxx Parents Are Furious

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New York Bans Unvaccinated Children From Going To School And Their Anti-Vaxx Parents Are Furious

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To be clear, the students can return to school if their parents vaccinate them. State health officials told BuzzFeed News that 26,217 unvaccinated New York children in public schools, private schools, parochial schools, daycare centers, and prekindergarten programs obtained religious exemptions during the 2017–18 school year.

New York Bans Unvaccinated Children From Going To School And Their Anti-Vaxx Parents Are Furious

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The measles outbreak that prompted the new law is easing. Earlier this month, Mayor Bill de Blasio declared an end to the measles outbreak in New York City, its epicenter. Since October 2018, there have been 654 measles cases in the city and 414 in other parts of the state, where transmission has also slowed. According to the CDC, children are most at risk from measles. One out of every 20 children infected with measles will contract pneumonia, while one in 1,000 will die from the virus. Other complications can include swelling of the brain (which can lead to deafness or disabilities).

New York Bans Unvaccinated Children From Going To School And Their Anti-Vaxx Parents Are Furious

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New York Bans Unvaccinated Children From Going To School And Their Anti-Vaxx Parents Are Furious

New York Bans Unvaccinated Children From Going To School And Their Anti-Vaxx Parents Are Furious

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People had a lot to say about this situation

New York Bans Unvaccinated Children From Going To School And Their Anti-Vaxx Parents Are Furious

New York Bans Unvaccinated Children From Going To School And Their Anti-Vaxx Parents Are Furious

New York Bans Unvaccinated Children From Going To School And Their Anti-Vaxx Parents Are Furious

New York Bans Unvaccinated Children From Going To School And Their Anti-Vaxx Parents Are Furious

New York Bans Unvaccinated Children From Going To School And Their Anti-Vaxx Parents Are Furious

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Kaisu 5 years ago

Equating being anti-vax to the Jim Crow law and the holocaust is just so f*****g insensitive and brainless. Even if your unvaccinated kid is healthy now, they could easily get something like measles and then infect a kid whose immune system is compromised and they can't handle the illness and will die

379points

Aunt Messy 5 years ago

They're child abusers - they're never going to understand how stupid they are.

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Corina Alvarez Loeblich 5 years ago

well, of course they are insensitive: they are antivaxx and will use ANY argument to support their reckless behaviour. They can open their own school and see what happens in there, like an evil petri dish!

44points

RaroaRaroa 5 years ago

The drinking fountain for vaccinated kids is so obviously faked for the photo. The sign isn't even taped in place, it would last 5 seconds. And if the unvaccinated kids are banned, there's no need to label the fountain. Pathetic behaviour.

11points

Meami 5 years ago

I wish I could up-vote your comment a 1000 times, Kaisu. That's the point exactly - their choice could kill others. If they don't want to vaccinate their children then they can keep their children permanently home and away from everyone else forever. (Or at least until the kid gets old enough to go get vaccinated themselves.)

8points

Marcellus the Third 5 years ago

The threat is mostly to the un-vaccinate-able youngest as well as the immunocompromised (chemotherapy etc)... Healthy kids can make it through measles etc with a bit of luck, the weaker not. That's the choice these AntiVaxx are making --- their freedom above your family members.

5points

James Gallegos 5 years ago

I always find it funny that the parents are vaccinated and have lived long enough to have children but won't vaccinate their kids? How's that fair?

2points

TheExtremeSmell 5 years ago

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Noez 🇸🇪 5 years ago

Shut up and vaccinate your damn kids. And then shut up some more.

132points

A 5 years ago

Simple enough that even idiots who are too stupid to vaccinate their kids can understand.

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Michał Jastrzębski 5 years ago

antivaxxers? you mean, pro-epidemics? :>

87points

Joannie Goulet 5 years ago

I'll be calling them pro-epidemics from now on!

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François Bouzigues 5 years ago

Well done. It is a basic requirement in Spain and France. And it has been for decades.

66points

Pittsburgh rare 5 years ago

Well, not really. Can't tell about France, but in Spain it is not compulsory. However, most of us vaccinate our children because we're not dumb af. And we go the extra mile paying for very expensive vaccines that are not included in the free health care system. There are some idiots that don't vaccinate their kids though, but they are a rare minority. And thanks to those f*****s, now adults between 40-45 have to be vaccinated against measles because there has been an outbreak.

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Demi Zwaan 5 years ago

Would those parents also not have their children treated when they get sick? Because if God is against vaccines, I'm sure he's against every other medicine as well, right?

54points

Something 5 years ago

Sadly, some of them will give their children a near-lethal dose of essential oils instead of seeing a doctor.

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Ed Souza 5 years ago

Oh you didn't know? If they get sick, God will guide them to the best doctor around and get their kids healthy again...

3points

Karen Klinck 5 years ago

I'm sure they 'pray them well',since, after all, sickness is caused by sin. (Oh, my aching head; people believe this stuff in this day and age...)

1point

Paul Howard 5 years ago

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Kristy P 5 years ago

But.. black children weren't going to infect susceptible children with a deadly illness just by being in the same room.

52points

Something 5 years ago

Also, there was nothing the parents could do to make them be allowed into the school.

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Dani Lee 5 years ago

Good! I agree with this decision, they can have the right to not vaxx but our kids shouldn't be getting sick because of their "religious beliefs".

47points

Aunt Messy 5 years ago

The funny thing is that NOT ONE religion ever said a word about vaccinations. The religious exemptions are just made-up b******t.

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Night Owl 5 years ago (edited)

New York did the right thing. All the parents using their kids for their personal propaganda, equating the new laws to the Jim Crow law, to the holocaust etc. should be ashamed of themselves, shut up and finally vaccinate kids already for f***s sake (Sorry; I tried to be levelheaded but...)

45points

Wil Vanderheijden 5 years ago

If anything this post shows how delusional anti-vaxxers are. If they want to make comparisons they should compare their children to the biological warfare in the trenches during WW1. Because that's what they are doing: Sending infected children out on the street and knowingly and willingly taking a risk of infecting other children that because of their age didn't have their vaccinations yet. It's just unbelieveable that CPS doesn't go after these idiots, but is willing to start procedures when parents choose to let their chiildren play outside without supervision.

44points

Rhys Cernunnos 5 years ago

CPS already has their hands full as it is. Unfortunately.

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Michelle Chevalier 5 years ago

Are they serious!!! How dare they have the nerves to use the history of Anne Frank and African American during times of segregation as a comparison to what they are going through. And to make it worse, they use their clueless children by making them hold protest sign to try to provoke sympathy. The State of New York is doing them and everybody else a favor. We need other states to follow suit.

38points

Herb Eaversmells 5 years ago

F**k these people, in the mid 90s my 11 year old cousin died of an easily vaccinated disease. She was physically handicapped and she was,not able to be vaccinated. A few months ago, my wife and I had the audacity to take our 2,month old,daughter grocery shopping with us. Later that week a,confirmed measles case was in our county, and went to the same store we had gone and in the same time frame, luckily she never got sick....

34points

Whatever... 5 years ago

That must have been a scary time for you to wait and see if your daughter would be okay. Sorry you had to go through that.

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Lauren Caswell 5 years ago

Measles has broken out in new Zealand I have chronic lung disease and am undervaccinated. I'm scared to go out, and terrified my 9 yr old will bring it home. This is all thanks to anti vaxxers

15points

Karen Lyon 5 years ago (edited)

I am sorry for your loss, I know losing your cousin must have been tough. I will a I am so very glad your daughter did not get sick. It's so sad and infuriating that in the 21st century we have to deal with this level of ignorance.

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Lira Mai 5 years ago

These kids would not be out of school if not for their parents. And now they have their kids hold their placards.

33points

Katinka Min 5 years ago

It make me so f*cking angry if these peole compare themselves to the victims of the Shoa or Racism. It is their CHOICE to endanger their children and others. the choose to spit science in the face. But I do love the fact that American anti-vaxxers call it a 'religion'. Because that is exaclty what it is: an irrational supersticious belief.

32points

Soggy Crumpet 5 years ago

I am pro-vaccination and my children are fully vaccinated. I am also a Christian. Do not issue insults to those of us with common sense and also believe in a Higher Power.

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Abbey Impson 5 years ago

and just how many of the adults that are protesting this decision were vaccinated as children??? conservative estimate says nearly all of them.

30points

Roger Haywood 5 years ago

It's horrific when people use religion as an excuse not to vaxinate their kids. Where in the bible does god condone vaxinations? I'm Atheist and even I know that there isn't anything like that. I think people should believe whatever they want, but not at the expense of endangering kids.

29points

Just saying 5 years ago

I'm a pretty conservative Christian, I know my Bible very well, and I know there isn't anything like that either. On this we agree.

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Caren Johnson 5 years ago

Vaccines didn't even exist! What page of the Bible did they warp for their own intention

11points

Cheryl Wilcox 5 years ago

This is for Alex Chiaradio: The only vaccines that are made in human cells are chickenpox (varicella), rubella, and hepatitis A, in addition to one of the available rabies vaccines. The viruses for these vaccines were grown in cells taken from elective terminations of pregnancies, which took place in the early 1960s. Since then, the cell lines for these vaccines have been maintained in the lab and no further sources of fetal cells are necessary to make these vaccines.

10points

Alex Chiaradio 5 years ago

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tuzdayschild 5 years ago

This is not Jim Crow. My black skin does not put anyone at risk of disease or dying.

28points

Karen Lyon 5 years ago

It's insulting to you personally, to your race in general, and to the intelligence of right thinking people.

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Jason Doakes 5 years ago

Should all be arrested for child endangerment. Freaking fanatics.

27points

Baba Caine 5 years ago

Is it only Americans who can chose to not Vax ? It was compulsory when i was kid, and all my nieces and nephews had to but then i from merry old England and we like to try keep are kids safe and sound 🤔

20points

EHops 5 years ago

Yeah sad to say the country I call home is riddled with idiots who believe their opinion is fact.

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Jennie-Lind Normand 5 years ago

There are some in Canada but no where near as fervent as the ones in this post.

9points

Kimara 5 years ago

Sadly we have the same battle happenin in the Netherlands. It's so dumb.

8points

Joannie Goulet 5 years ago

Sadly we have them here too, in Canada. We had an outbreak of measles a few years ago in Quebec because of the anti-vaxxers of a religious sect.

5points

Karen Lyon 5 years ago

No, sadly, measles is on the rise in Europe as well. This anti-vaxx c**p has taken hold there. That's what makes it really scary.

0points

Karen Klinck 5 years ago

I'm American;it was compulsory in my state! When did this nonsense become a thing? Hell, my mother had ne vaccinated after I'd had both forms of measles, just in case they'd mutated!

0points

Cherie of Numenor 5 years ago

Anti-vaxxers are the stupidest, most ignorant child abusers. They actually chose to put their children's health at risk, not to mention the general public's health at risk! How do they answer to that? Ignorant fools. They holler about religious freedom...my A*S. They make me sick. They literally caused the measles outbreak. And they equate this to Jim Crow laws...and the Holocaust? Excuse me while I VOMIT....

19points

TheDivineMs.M 5 years ago

Comparing your kid to Ruby Bridges and claiming anti-vax is your religion- give me a god damn break! Then when the child gets infected because of your ignorance, you deny responsibility and blame- PLEASE keep homeschooling your kids- do us- and by us i mean intelligent human beings- a favor.

19points

Perry Swift 5 years ago

It's pretty sick to have kids holding placards about how they want to go to school as emotional blackmail. Do you think they want polio, as well?

17points

Karen Lyon 5 years ago

Tell me about it. I am so afraid that polio could and would make a comeback. It would completely shut the anti-vaxxers up, but the price we'd pay. It makes me ill to think about it.

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Louise B 5 years ago

Oh, this is upsetting 😔 anyone who wants to bring God into it should remember that old joke about the person who refused help from a life raft during a flood because God was going to save them, when they drowned and got to the pearly gates, God said, 'why didn't you take the life raft that I sent you?' With antibiotics failing, we're probably living in the golden age of medical technology. We should be so grateful, but we're complacent.

16points

Panda-Tam 5 years ago

This is why the separation of church and state is so necessary. Let's hope it remains that way.

16points

Karen Klinck 5 years ago

The divide has been getting pretty damn murky. I hope this serves as a wake-up clarion call to rational people.

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Pumbaa 5 years ago

Damn, I'm getting stupid just by reading this bs :D and these people want to homeschool their kids.. poor kids.

16points

Ivy D 5 years ago

Nothing is wrong with homeschooling. These people are just being stupid.

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Kathy Baylis 5 years ago

Simple solution: vaccinate your children! Might as well, since they’re going to do it themselves the second they turn 18. Medical science is NOT your enemy. The link between vaccinations and autism has been long ago disproven. It was the result of using too small a group of participants (and I believe no real control group), falsifying data and results, and throwing out data and results that did not prove the hypothesis, so the results can not be reproduced—-all of which are important components of pure scientific method and legitimate medical findings. Additionally, the quack who published his fake findings had a well known bias against pharmaceutical companies, which in turn biased his research. He has had his medical license revoked and will never be allowed to legally practice medicine again. Don’t you think that’s enough to prove his—-and your—-views on vaccinations are dead (potentially for your children) wrong?

14points

Claire 5 years ago

IF they turn 18...

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Lira Mai 5 years ago

The kid who is holding the "i want to go to school" placard looks like her sign doesn't express what she truly feels. I think she wants to go home and rest or play than be drag by her parents in their protest.

13points

Cactuar Jon 5 years ago

I am incredibly confused as to what the hell god has to do with not vaccinating your kids. Just another excuse for being a dumbass?

13points

Karen Klinck 5 years ago

Since in the Dark Ages they believed that you got sick because you sinned, what does it say about this lot?

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Froganit Gamesy 5 years ago

Anne Frank died of Typhus, a disease we now can vaccinate against...

12points

marmitejim 5 years ago

Murdered by Typhus..... It was a stratagy by the Nazis.

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marmitejim 5 years ago

If any of the idiot parents actually experienced Jim Crow they'd realise what nonsense they're spewing..... As usual it's the kids that suffer for the parents uneducated beliefs and brainwashing.

12points

Leo Domitrix 5 years ago

And here I thought anti-vaxxers couldn't get more despicable. "Religious freedom"? "Jim Crow"? Wow.

11points

marmitejim 5 years ago

You can't go to school with your friends because your Mum is a complete idiot who rejects education.

11points

Loretta 5 years ago

Jeez these people are so f*****g stupid.

9points

Ed Souza 5 years ago

I would be pissed if my daughter got sick for being close to a child that didn't get vaccinated. These anti-vaxxers are selfish, entitled c***s... Sadly, most people are like this lately.

9points

Bee / she/her 3 years ago

Full Name, actually not. Vaccines make it easier for the body to fight the virus as there is already immunity. So a vaccinated person that gets infected is MUCH less likely to develop symptoms (and therefore MUCH less likely to spread the disease), MUCH less likely to have severe symptoms, and MUCH less likely to die

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Kjorn 5 years ago

kids has Nothing to do with that yeah.. it's their F*****g moron parents who are (i'm pretty sure) vaccinated.

9points

Alia G. 5 years ago

How entitled, ignorant, and privileged do you have to be?

8points

C.S. 5 years ago

There are no "opinions" in this. This is NOT an argument. Un-vaccinated people have an INCREASED likely hood of spreading disease. PERIOD. There is NO DISCUSSION to be had. No more than a discussion about whether humans can breath underwater. A black child was NO threat to anyone else in the school. Neither were any Jewish segregated as any real threat either. But it's a proven fact that not only does the science behind vaccines work (I give you the end of polio, small pox, etc), but as does the concept of heard immunity. I'm vaccinated, so I'm not frightened by the unvaccinated. But I fear for the newborn baby that your choice threatens with death.. For the immune compromised child that you are threatening with death. That is factual reality. Do vaccines have risk? Yes. Does that risk outweigh it's benefits. NO. You might say well maybe not to me, but that's b******t. Risks are a numbers games. Maybe your kid is fine with them, maybe not. Welcome to life.

7points

Karen Klinck 5 years ago

As I told my surgeon when he was listing the 'dangers' of my spinal surgery, I have a higher risk of getting hit by an unobservant driver! Risks are minimal if you aren't compromised in some fashion,and those people KNOW their problems!

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Tres D 5 years ago

Why should everybody else risk the health of their children because you're too ignorant to get you child vaccinated!?! The poor decisions you make in life always have consequences. Deal with it!

7points

Ianthez 5 years ago

Why on Earth are these parents comparing this to people who suffered from the Nazis? This is extreme comparing this to the holocaust and the Jim Crow law. This has nothing to do with religion, it's about keeping our children healthy. If you hate homeschooling so much, why don't you just vaccinate your kids? Just saying, but no one is 100% healthy :/ . Going on about the Jim Crow law, THAT was racism. This is the government deciding that they want the children to be safe and healthy. The people who suffered from the Jim Crow law had no control over their skin color. These parents have the choice of vaccinating. This is preposterous to even compare these situations.

7points

Bored Moogle 5 years ago

There are NO religions WHATSOEVER that forbid vaccines. NONE. NADA. ZILCH.

7points

Kate Gladstone 5 years ago

When people object to vaccinations because the cells came from unborn children killed by abortion, why don’t the same people object to getting organ transplants because the organs came from children/adults killed by murderers or drunk drivers?

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Sue Prewitt 5 years ago

I'm confused. What does this have to do with religion? It is strictly about health. As a person with a compromised immune system, THANK YOU!

7points

Eric Mac Fadden 5 years ago

This "thing" is beginning to show up in Brazil. But we have tropical diseases, anti-vaxxers vanishes so fast "I can't imagine why".

7points

maswartz 5 years ago

How many of those parents are only alive because their own parents vaccinated them?

7points

Karen Lyon 5 years ago

All. Of. Them. I know. The height of entitled ingratitude, that.

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Bunzilla 5 years ago

These parents are doing this to their kids, not the government. Choosing not to vaccinate their children is in no way similar to the kinds of violent discrimination faced by those who have absolutely no choice in the way that they're born. Sure, their kid seems healthy now, but not only can they spread diseases the rest of us have been vaccinated against to the immunocompromised, but the viruses can mutate among the anti-vaxx population, and then we'll have huge pandemics on our hands. Do they want Polio? Smallpox? Because this is how it will happen. We had almost eradicated Measles, now it's made a return. It's pure stupidity.

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Jeff Heinemann 5 years ago (edited)

When I was growing up, I had to have my little card signed by my doctor saying which shots I've had. I couldn't enroll without it! End of story! That was in the '70's!

6points

Karen Klinck 5 years ago

Me, too. And I was 18 months old before the polio vaccine was introduced. I LIKE vaccines. I had the measles because there was no vaccine yet. These a******s know not what they rail about.

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Allen Lavine 5 years ago

This is nothing like segregation because they have a choice we didn’t choose to be born black

6points

Nuno Barros 5 years ago

26,217 victims of child abuse. Those parents should answer in court for threats to human life and public health. Someone call Child Protective Services... And boredpanda, there's too much of a pity undertone in this article. There's no sympathy to be had for these bio-terrorists. They are not qualified to be parents.

6points

Artur Niedzielski 5 years ago

So now anti-vax movement is a religion? I don't want to live on this planet anymore...

6points

Karen Klinck 5 years ago

Anti-vaxxing is not a religion. It's a bunch of idiots hiding behind their religion because they can't--and won't--think.

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SBW71 5 years ago

Wow New York actually gets it, amazing. Good. I don't want my kid catching something that could've been avoided because of some parents are just too stupid to get educated on this matter of being vaccinated. This is precisely why people should pass a test and get a license to have kids.

6points

Lauren Caswell 5 years ago

Now I want to move to new York!

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SirPatTheCat 5 years ago

Oh my god small children are so malleable — you could tell them that the government was arresting all unicorns and they’d write up signs saying, “Free the unicorns!” Just saying that buying some random poster board and telling your kids what to write on it is not an effective way to prove your point...

6points

Kururi.Orihara 5 years ago

Is it possible to consider the “anti-vaxx” a terrorist group now?

6points

Magpie 5 years ago

Measles and polio and the rest as weapons of mass destruction??? Maybe. The saddest thing is the kids who *medically* cannot be vaccinated are the vulnerable ones.

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George Digamma 5 years ago

Many of the same people who protest to ban smoking for health reasons, and they are totally right, do not vaxxinate their kids. I don't get it.

6points

Magpie 5 years ago

I am fascinated by your assertion George. Where did you find that ?

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Misha Christensen-wildeman 5 years ago

i cannot see how they even allow kids in a school without vaccines, in south africa it is not accepted at all, every school pre school u apply to they want to see your vaccination book. the day ur child is born u get ur first shot to protect u, no school will even consider ur application if your child is ot fully vaccinated

5points

Amberly Middlemiss 5 years ago

what the heck does vaccinating have to do with religion? my whole family is Christian and we're all vaccinated, there's nothing in the bible that says anything about it!

5points

Jennifer Rapp 5 years ago

As a person who has been through chemo I think this is fantastic. Those parents who compare this to Jim Crow or the Holocaust, need to go back to school.

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

Chances are THEY were homeschooled by their own idiots.

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Matthew Smith 5 years ago

Well done New York,

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Morgen Michaels 5 years ago

My only concern is for the children who CANT get vaccinated. Not the kids of parents that are anti vaxxers. Im talking the kids who have reasonable parents who want their child protected, but for allergic or other health reasons actually CANT get vaccinated. I would hope that they would still be allowed to attend school. After all, the whole point of mass vaccines is to protect the ppl who are at greater risk (ie elderly, immune weak, allergic, etc)

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

That's a medical exemption, not a 'religious' one. Only California is talking about ending medical exemptions. Normally herd health protects those with medical exemptions, as long as religious ones have been trashed.

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Parmeisan 5 years ago

I was looking into this (I'm surprised no one else on here is talking about it). Looks like they've tightened the requirements (doctors must fill out a long form instead of providing a basic signed statement) but also appears that some schools are denying legitimate claims, probably (this is my own guess) in fear of the $2000 fine (per student) for violating the law. https://www.lohud.com/story/news/health/2019/09/23/ny-vaccinations-what-know-medical-exemptions-religious-ban-enforcement/2388089001/

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Pol Macqueron 5 years ago

That comparison with Anne Franck makes me want to cry

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Louise B 5 years ago (edited)

That's what's so horrific, I don't think anti vaxers are evil - far from it, they genuinely believe that they are protecting their children. However, to invoke the holocaust is deplorable, there is no comparison. In the past children died from measles and other now preventable diseases, but antivaxers just ignore that fact. The holocaust was a man made event. In the same way thousands of children could die if there was no vaccination - do the antivaxers have a word for an event like that?

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Kate Gladstone 5 years ago

No, they don’t have a word for it ... just as they don’t have a word for “people who are alive because they were vaccinated, which they don’t want their own children to be.”

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Martha Meyer 5 years ago

It's interesting that some of these people claim their religious beliefs are targeted. When did antivaxxers become a religious group?!

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

But their version of whatever passes as scripture says that sin causes sickness, so vaccines come from the devil. Or something. They're not able to read big words like vaccine, so they get some other ignorant dumbass to 'explain' it to them, and it becomes gospel. They then claim that their so-called religion forbids the vaccinations, and...

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frederic eeckman 5 years ago

It took me a while to understand why they were talking about religion... Yeah, surely Jesus wasn't vaccined :D The funny thing is that "religious freedom is a right", but not if you are a muslim.

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Logan Slaughter 5 years ago

Jesus, they're comparing this to Jim Crow and the Holocaust? There's a difference for hating someone based on race, and not wanting to risk spreading diseases because some cretins would rather believe some half-brained conspiracy theorists than tried and true scientific fact!

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honeyjewels416 5 years ago

Why is everyone being so righteous now !!!! I am sure the majority of those parents are vaccinated stupid ignorant and selfish people. If it weren't for vaccines all of us would be dead you MORONS!!! polio, tuberculosis, malaria ebola all these killer diseases. Homeschooling is not going to take these diseases away you ignorant individuals!!!!. GOOD FOR YOU NEW YORK I SUPPORT THE LAW 100%!!!!

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Just saying 5 years ago

I'm a pretty conservative bible believing Christian but nowhere I know in the Bible does it say not to vaccinate your child, and I can think of no Bible principle that could be applied in this way to this issue. I have no idea where these guys are getting it from. It may be against a religion they've made up for themselves, but I can't see how they are justifying this from the Bible. Can someone enlighten me?

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Janet Robbins 5 years ago (edited)

I seriously don't think there is one, they just use that exemption as an excuse. My brother and his wife didn't vaccinate their child and they are not religious at ALL but they used the religion exemption to get their daughter into school. Well joke's on her cause she has to homeschool her this year! (they live in NY) They don't speak to me cause I told them they were morons and that her 20 minutes of internet "research" does not make her an expert.

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Whatever... 5 years ago

LOL! Using the 'religious beliefs ' card is just hilarious! NY schools have students of every religious background, as well as atheism, in their schools.

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Michael Lovelock 5 years ago

Anti-vaccine adults are so shockingly DUMB!!!!!!!!!

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Christina Sersif 5 years ago

I really don’t understand the logic of these anti vax people. You’re potentially allowing your child to catch a disease that was nearly wiped from existence just a few decades ago! If you want to choose a possible deadly disease that could kill your child and others who can’t get vaccinated because you’re afraid of autism. America is a free country so yes don’t vaccinate your child that’s your choice, but don’t subject others to your ridiculous beliefs. There’s consequences to every action you take.

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Nathalie Langevin 5 years ago

I applaud the city's decision. Those parents, too stupid to inform themselves thoroughly, should be persecuted for not taking appropriate care of their children. My immune system is close to nothing and getting a child's disease could have some very serious consequences for me . If your religion means someone else than yourself should die, your religion is very very very wrong!

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NWB 5 years ago

How it has always been in Australia.

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Deborah Brett 5 years ago

Christian Scientist and Dutch Reform Church are the main anti-vaccine religions in the US. Are these 'anti-vaxx' families actually members of these religions, or were they just taking advantage of the religious exemption loophole? 'Pseudo-science conspiracy wingnut' is not an actual religion.

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Doug 5 years ago

A massive congregation on un-vaxxed kids... this problem should take care of itself soon enough.

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Lauren Caswell 5 years ago

Yeah a pro-vaxx rally came down to my town just under a month ago...Now measles is also in my town...damn them

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Ivy D 5 years ago

What about those, like me, who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons? Are we going to be able to go to school? We actually have no choice, as we could literally die if we had them.

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Janet Robbins 5 years ago

medical exemptions are different and a big part of the reason why vaccinations are required in schools, to help protect people like you who CAN'T get vaccinated!

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Missy Barton 5 years ago

Vaccinate your f*****g kids!

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Mary Pease 5 years ago

I always had to have vaccinations before going to school. AS YOU SHOULD. So something does not by chance spread across the whole school... I swear. I am glad this was done. This whole anti-vax thing started on a hoax and it needs to stop.

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Nicole Helmberger 5 years ago (edited)

Vaccinate your kids. Or never ever ever ever take them to a medical professional for any reason. If medical professionals are part of the evil vaccination conspiracy - than they cannot be trusted for anything else that ails your kid from bad eyesight and cavities to a broken bone. Or...just vaccinate your damn kid.

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Nerdiqueen 5 years ago

There's a difference between healthy and not-disease-carrying. Some diseases are dormant but flare up when carried.

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cybermerlin2000 5 years ago

Lock up the anti-vax parents in cells and sit them with open Petri dishes of concentrated doses of preventable diseases and make sure the vaccine is right in front of them where they can voluntarily inject themselves. Lets see who caves in first

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Aunt Messy 5 years ago

That's the ironic thing. THEIR parents vaccinated them.

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Kelly Pearson 5 years ago

Urgent care nurse practitioner here- Had an anti-vax parent tell me she doesn't vaccinate because she has a hard time with heat/ hot showers and blames vaccines because, well, she got vaccines as a child. Thus, she apparently thinks instead of turning down the temperature of her shower that she should expose her child and the rest of the global community to communicable diseases that may kill her children and others. You shouldn't get to kill your children and others because you are f*****g nuts.

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Cassie 5 years ago

Somebody's going to have to give me the Bible passage that says not to vaccinate. I seem to have missed that one.

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Sandy J Renfroe 5 years ago

Is your child REALLY 100% healthy? Are they harboring a disease? They could be healthy snd still be a carrier like Typhoid Mary. If my vaccinated child goes near your UN-vaccinated child, and then my child brings home chicken pox or measles to my baby who is too young to be vaccinated, and then my baby DIES, can I charge you with MURDER?

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SirWriteALot 5 years ago

Your religion is your choice. Practice it at home, do whatever you want unless it hurts others. When you join the public, abide by the rules or stay the f**k at home. Well done NY

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Mike Greco 5 years ago

Anti-vaxxers are going to Darwin themselves out of the gene pool eventually. So, everybody else, just be patient.

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Nichole Boseman 5 years ago

What is wrong with people. A child being black or jewish is not a public health crisis. A child being a potential carrier of a deadly disease is. A black or jewish child isn't going to infect another kid with their race or religion. However, some unvaccinated kid pass their germs on to someone who can't, by no fault of their own, get the shots. Sure, your kid is "healthy" until they're not. And i seriously doubt you're screening them daily for mumps/measles/rubella/whooping cough/tetanus/etc.

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🏳️‍🌈👻EmoExtreemo👻🏳️‍🌈 5 years ago

Religion is okay as long as it doesn't interfere with people's pursuit of happiness. Ex: Satanists aren't aloud to make human sacrifices.

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Isabella kratosisy 5 years ago

Since when is being antivax a religion?

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Momo Skarsgård 5 years ago

This makes me sad for the children.

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Candice Ravel 5 years ago

I'd love to know if these window licking anti vaxxers were vaccinated as kids. Chances are pretty good that they were, which proves that stupidity skips a generation, since their parents weren't f*****g morons using made up b******t to protest. You have to be a special kind of fucktard to equate your unvaccinated crotch fruit being barred from school because you're a twat, to Jim Crow and Nazis exterminating people

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Caroline Arcand-Wright 5 years ago

It is easier to fool people than convince them they have been fooled! Right NYS? So many unbelievably uneducated people when it comes to vaccines.

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Minnie-me 5 years ago

Now if we can get every other state to follow that would be great mmmk?

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Gabriela VK 5 years ago

if anyone wants to waste a few seconds and check out Melissa's twitter feed - posts several tweets a day on the same anti-vax subject. Reads and sounds like a cult and has definitely been brain washed.

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Ian Taggart 2 years ago

FINALLY! I cannot tell you how INFURIATING it is that people claim that not vaccinating your children is a form of attempted murder and that anti-vax parents are the scum of the earth and all that 🐂💩. We finally see things from their point of view and recognise them as people This IS segregation and I will not stand for it.

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David cedermark 5 years ago

Poor kids who can’t go to school because their parents are stupid.

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Judwin Ndzo 5 years ago

I wonder what religion bans vaccines?

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

Any religion who thinks you can pray them better.

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Corey Schauer 5 years ago

I think New York should pass a bill that states that any person who is an anti vaxxer with a child if they do not vaccinate their kids they are to be arrested their kids are to be taken away and then vaccinated by the state and the parents are to be charged with endangering the welfare of a minor

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Sarah Luna 5 years ago

I'm one of the ones at risk, I'm on an immunosuppressant (for MS) and will catch a cold from a sneeze three counties away. Of course I've been vaccinated but if there's a strain of ANY long-forgotten-but-making-an-appearance I'm screwed. Thanks to people who still believe that vaccines cause Autism. Vaccines cause adults, missy.

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Marlene Ricker 5 years ago

Right on, New York. It's time something was done.

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Inservio Letum 5 years ago

New problem : wave of homeschooled children educated exclusively by the educationally illiterate. Either mandate educator licensing, or mandate vaccination, because this is going to cause a SERIOUS problem in the next generation.

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Janelle Collard Premium 5 years ago

Vaccinate your kids or home-school them: Your choice. Get other people sick cuz your kids aren't vaccinated - our choice.

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

Thing is, I really don't want them passing on the s**t they believe! And they will...

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Magpie 5 years ago

My grandmother told me about the effects of polio. - Long prams for adults. She was sooo grateful for the vaccines, so she would not have to see her children/grand children get this horrible disease.

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Trude Stener Hansen 5 years ago

Great! It should be illigal to not vaccinate children. In my country it isn't a choice, yet no one seems to have a problem with it. You are obligated to get them. Their argument that God decides and Jesus didn't do it is faulty anyway. If there even was a God, they obviously gave us the capability to make them, and Jesus.. well, he died in his 30s. Great example. I hope the rest of your country follow 👍🏻

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Pamela Hanna 5 years ago

Apparently I'm just old, but before I could go to school (or my kids) we HAD to show our immunization records before we could ever get IN THE DOOR? I will never understand the pretense of not vaccinating a child? Some of these parents who have decided not to vaccinate are referencing "knowledge and research" that vaccines cause disabilities, or can lead to this or that, or they blame "the man" or the big pharmaceutical companies. If they had done their "real" research they would know that viruses like measles have incubation periods...your child is perfectly healthy on the outside but they are, in fact, possibly transmitting that to every single person they come near for anywhere from 7 to 10 days PRIOR to any symptoms showing. Congratulations to a generation that has singlehandedly taken a once eradicated virus and brought it back to the forefront!! GOOD FOR NY for standing their ground on public health!

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Rodrigo AR 5 years ago

the only thing that is infinite is human stupidity.

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Riddle_Rifle 5 years ago

awwww the girl holding the poster backwards (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ *:･ﾟ✧

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Claire 5 years ago

I was homeschooled up until high school and I loved it, but I don't think that these are good parents to be teaching their kids things. Hopefully the kids will be able to break away from their parents' beliefs and vaccinate when they turn 18.

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Magpie 5 years ago

And then get the ability somehow to recover from non-logical , non-science-understanding home schooling "teachers".

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Flame Phoenix 5 years ago

... They deserve it, I don't want to possibly get a preventable disease because my friend didnt get vaxxed

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Bredan TheGreat 5 years ago

The thing I find most stupid about this who anti-vax thing is that 99% of the parents that aren't vaccinating their kids had had vaccines. They don't cause autism people

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NotMe 5 years ago

Wait wait wait.... are you telling me anti-vaxxers don't vaccinate their children becaue of GOD...? Is it a religious belief??? I didn't know this....

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Vinga Älvebjörk 5 years ago

All in favour. This is excellent. Anti-vaxxers are a plague to society. Get it? Plague. That's what occurs when enough people don't vaccinate.

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

There's no vaccine against stupidity.

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Slune 5 years ago

Can you imagine the results of homeschooling when this idiots do the teaching. Poor America!

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Wim Cossement 5 years ago

Yes! Those morons finally got what they deserve! I want moar of this!

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Shana Moe 5 years ago

Wai- I was wondering what is all the religious talk about.... They legit think that god is against vaccines? oh god...

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Jo Choto 5 years ago

Sometimes people are too stupid to be allowed to make their own decisions. Vaccination of children should be mandatory, period.

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

I heard an otherwise extremely intelligent woman spouting some of this c**p. That goodness her kids are in their thirties!

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Lorraine Woollands 5 years ago

These stupid people think their children are being banned from school because of religion. How dare they link their stupidity with the race ban of coloured kids when they was banned from white schools. They choose not to vaccinate their kids (let them get sick) but vaccinating is to protect all kids from getting ill. What would they say if by an off chance a child that has been vaccinated gives their kids an illness . Because even though they have been vaccinated they can still carry an illness

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Taffy Lindley 5 years ago

I want to see this un-vaccinated kids growing up.... Living life then on the eve of something big, come down with a debilitating disease that hasn't been seen in over 200 years. What will their parents say then? Jus Saying (I don't wish ill to anyone, but their parents need the harsh truth)

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

"It's God's will." (This is why I firmy support the separation of church and state!)

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Azzam Afif 5 years ago

Imagine being kicked out because of their parents stupidity

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Christophe Beunens 5 years ago

I have a solution : We open 1 school for ALL the unvaccinated people, no matter the reason. One of them get's the measels, and we can quarantaine them all. Let the strongest ones survive!

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Lauren Caswell 5 years ago

The sad thing is they don't just risk their own child's health, but the health of kids who are too young to be immunised, immuno-compromised kids who can't be vaccinated, and also immuno-compromised parents like me. Thank f***k I was able to be vaccinated as a kid, and my chronic lung disease only developed in my 30s

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MikeWheelerFan 3 years ago

With these parents homeschooling is definitely a bad thing but usually it’s a good thing, even better than public school.

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Sarah Fox 4 years ago

Oh so if you guys care about ‘discrimination’ where were you when black people where getting killed by the police and discriminated against or when gays were refused wedding cakes, oh right you didn’t care it only matters when it’s you “suffering” and comparing dangerous kids being left out of school to a mass murder of Jews or black people being denied is freaking insensitive. GO back to your sad troll cave.

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Blueberry Woofle 4 years ago

Makes me sad how they think WE'RE the people doing something wrong - yeah right!

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Karen Lyon 5 years ago

I have absolutely no sympathy for these people. My late mother was a nurse for 42 years, and when she was a nursing student, she took care of people in iron lungs. The cousin of one of my best friends was born shortly and after the war and became permanently disabled by polio. As a child, I remember how women who were exposed to German measles would miscarry or give birth to kids with serious birth defects. We have to buckle down on this anti-vaccine nonsense. These foolish parents take for granted their own blessed health that they have from vaccinations. They choose to ignore the lessons that we have learned from the polio epidemic of the 40's and 50's, and the German measles scares of the 60's. But in doing so, they don't care if we pay the price. They can rant and rave about their rights to education all they want. They do not have the right to put the lives of innocent children at risk. PERIOD.

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Eagle Girl 5 years ago

Wow... I agree with a New York mayor

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Alexis the kangaroo 5 years ago

They need to. I mean they even think that vaccines cause autism (which is a complete myth. It’s genetics that cause autism).

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Jamie Campfield Bates 5 years ago

How dare they compare the Holocaust and Jim Crow to their choice not to vaccinate their children! An unvaccinated child who spreads measles or other preventable diseases can die or kill someone else, because their parent’s choice. Thank you, New York, for protecting the public and governing with Common Sense.

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Samhhain Cat 5 years ago

These signs shouldn't say, "I want to go to school" but, "I want to live". Every single one of these parents should have their kids taken away. I'm glad NY has the balls to stand up to these morons.

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Maddie Painter 5 years ago

This is not wrong- i think they are completely and totally right! Your child may look healthy, but can carry a very fatal disease without even showing symptoms. These people are trying to compare straight up child abuse to racism, segregation and a girl who was brutally murdered in a concentration camp. Maybe learn the facts before trying to make up an excuse for you not vaccinating your children! Honestly, I was shocked to read this. And the photo of- only vaccinated children- man, are you that dumb to think that an anti-vaxx kid who could carry a virus should put the safety of others in jeopardy, because kids always put their mouths on the spout! Shame on all of you anti-vaxxers, or should I say neglectful parents!

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MammaG 5 years ago

There are NO religions that forbid vaccination. I wish the parents has been unvaccinated and rendered sterile.

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Julia King 5 years ago

Anti-vaxx people are idiots. They think that vaccines cause disease when really they prevent disease. I bet that half of them are anti-vaxx cause they don't want to put up with their child screaming because of the injection.

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Shawn Ruester 5 years ago

There should not be religious exception to vaccination in the first place. If your beliefs don't allow for your children to be vaccinated then you should home school them. I have no problems with school not allowing non-vaccinated children in, with the only exception of medically unable to be vaccinated.

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Kate Gladstone 5 years ago

Here’s a modest proposal: exempt ONE school in NYC from the vaccination requirement, allow ONLY anti-vaxxers to send their children to that school, and make that the ONLY school (other than homeschool) that a NYC anti-vaxxer is allowed to enroll children into, Make sure the school is next to a hospital that can handle the expectable epidemics. When those happen, publicize the fact, with detailed ongoing statistics of the incidence of measles and other contagious diseases at this school. Juxtapose those stats with interviews of anti-vaxxers talking about how wholesome the place is,

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Mrs. McCHUBS 5 years ago

I know a religion that supports anti vaccination. It’s called ‘Stupidity’ and its symbol is 🤤

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Manuel Delgado 5 years ago

Let's put together a demonstration for the antivax and the girl castration supporters can march together, all in their religion's name.

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Dulcinea73 5 years ago

This is SIMPLE BIOLOGY. A potentially fatal/devastating virus can be prevented with a simple shot. End of story. Seth Mnookin’s book “The Panic Epidemic” is a comprehensive overview of the vaccination controversy. Jenny McCarthy was the first & most vocal celebrity touting her BELIEF that a vaccine caused her son to develop autism - a belief for which there is ZERO scientific evidence. Her conclusion violated a basic rule of scientific proof: just because 2 events occur close together in time does NOT prove a cause-and-effect relationship between the two. Many public health officials loosely compare vaccinations to wearing seatbelts: while wearing them is technically a personal decision, laws now require they be worn for the safety of everyone on the roads. It’s a PUBLIC SAFETY issue. NOTHING in medicine is without risk. But when the risks of vaccinations are SO minimal compared to the devastating consequences of NOT vaccinating, there is NO defensible reason for not vaccinating.

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Ageisa Moscat 5 years ago

I say if it’s possible to homeschool your child/children, then go for it. I’d rather that than to risk my child/children safety with all these ridiculous “random” school shootings and child abuse that gets brushed under the rug. Because of Power & Money.

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Patrick Timmel 5 years ago

Antivaxxers are a menace to society. Do the math. Vaccines have saved and improved the lives of billions of people since their inception. But your children are special. So special that you are willing to risk their lives and the lives of others due to your arrogance. Keep the law. Ignorance deserves no respect.

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Patrick Timmel 5 years ago

Do the math. Vaccinations have saved millions of lives around the world since they were discovered and developed. If you want you kids in public places...especially schools, then don't threaten other children by not having your child vaccinated. If so many live in NYC, then start your own private school for fools. I have no problem keeping unvaccinated children segregated from those that are.

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Irene Walton 5 years ago

Good for the school, these parents have to vaccinate there kids, or get lost

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Laura Lafaire 5 years ago

Antivaxxers are insane. I have read up on cases where their children go and get vaccinated anyway because they realize how insane their parents are.

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kathryn stretton 5 years ago

Woman this week lost her twin unborn babies because she caught measles. Unborn. Maybe the mother wasn't vaccinated as a child, I don't know. This was in the U.S. I think. Not sure. Measles killed the foetuses. Heartbreaking.

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Andrea Galek 5 years ago

Truly mind boggling how easily the masses can be swayed. What a great one sided article. I wonder how many that have commented have done any research on the matter. I used to be just like most of these commenters. I thought "anti vaxxers" were stupid. My kids were never late for their shots. Then I started to read and think for myself. Most "anti vaxxers" are actually EX vaxxers. But hey, let's not report on that. Who cares about the kids that are harmed by vaccines. Much easier to just believe the narrative that you are spoon fed, than to be a free thinker. Now let's watch mob rule take over after I post this.

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

That one comment had it wrong. It should read: "Anne Frank was murdered by Nazis. Your children will be murdered by you."

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rai mei 5 years ago

My dear Philippines is following this anti-vaccine trend in America.. well what can I say, most people here follow US trends... Polio has resurfaced here due to ignorant anti-vaxxers

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Caroline Driver 5 years ago

Religious reasons? What, they're saying that they don't vaccinate because God doesn't want them to? Did they have pain relief when they gave birth? Did they use disposable nappies on their kids? Are there not millions of Christians out there who are quite happy vaccinating their kids? Most pathetic excuse ever.

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David Burca 5 years ago

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Kassandra White 5 years ago

Either vaccinate your spawn, hire a tutor, or homeschool. You made choices going directly against their rules and policies knowingly. You are not special and you don't get to do whatever you want. Free education comes at an expense and that expense is making sure your child is up to standard with rules and policies. Purposefully not vaccinating your kids means they don't get a free education and that is 100% your fault.

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Justa Fungui 5 years ago

Either homeschool or vaccinate your kids, the choice iss just that easy.

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Dylan Forbes-Wilkinson 5 years ago

please all just watch the kurtzgesagt video on this topic before you form your opinion, thank you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBkVCpbNnkU

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Dylan Forbes-Wilkinson 5 years ago

everyone who sees this post should go watch the kurtzgesagt vaccines video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBkVCpbNnkU

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Lisa Scott 5 years ago

I support the law as well. I don't want my Grand children dying from a preventable dose. Furthermore just because a child is "healthy" it does NOT mean they couldn't be a carrier. Vaccinations PREVENT disease!

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Lilly Ives 5 years ago

Honestly, the reason this is even a problem right now is because America tries too hard to be the “cool” country. Like, the religious exemptions from doing certain things, now when you have to take it away because your citizens are spoiled and think they know everything, they freak out and start throwing up signs and using their poor children as pawns. Antivaxxers, obviously you THINK you’re right and shouldn’t have to vaccinate your kid. But we don’t want your infected kid to infect our babies

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Dorothy Parker 5 years ago

How about posters of the medically fragile who can't be vaccinated and who depend on herd immunity? Medical masks to respect their privacy.

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Kate Gladstone 5 years ago

Herd immunity has an unfortunate name — it would better be called “community immunity.”

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Kristy Dukes 5 years ago

1 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

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Jennifer Lambert 5 years ago

I don't want you an unvaccinated kid in my school. This isn't a choice, your kid propagates sickness. You don't want to follow the social norms then home school your kids. Because I don't want your kid to kill mine by accident. The shots didn't kill you as a kid so vaccinate your dang kids!

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Gameking1happy 5 years ago

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Robyn 5 years ago

Oh well, it’s the r******d parents fault for not vaccinating them. And don’t you DARE compare this to Jim Crow laws, it is NOTHING alike.

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Delaney 5 years ago

Why do they need to go to school? They won’t live long enough to use it.

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Trude Stener Hansen 5 years ago

I don't care if your child isn't sick. I care that a child can carry a desease with them and give them to someone who isn't healthy enough to get vaccinated. Not by choice, but because they CAN'T. Now I'm happy I live in a country where this isn't even an issue. It's not like we don't have religious people here, we do, they just aren't stupid 🙈

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Trash Panda 5 years ago

Every one of these parents are ignorant and possess no idea as to what the Holocaust was and that its nefarious intent was to completely remove an entire group of humans. There is nothing in this law that remotely intends to kill people. In fact, this law saves lives. The stupidity here rises to the level of flat earthers and their idiotic theories. My child is grown but if she were still in school and there were kids there that were not vaccinated, I would crusade to have those children removed. I know it's not the children's fault they were born to morons. Unfortunately though, they were born to morons.

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Donald Holder 5 years ago (edited)

More liberal hypocrisy. It ok to not vaccinate your child in your eyes, but it perfectly okay to jeopardize the health of others children because of your uneducated biases about healthcare. And I say that as a Registered Nurse. If you don't want to vaccinate, then home school or start your own school for unvaccinated children. Don't put your imaginary burdens on innocent kids.

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Chris Sprucefield 5 years ago

Unfortunately, there is no vaccine for stupidity... vaccines are not just about you, but you and everyone else around you. Not all people around you or your kid wants to contract a perfectly preventable disease that you or the kid would would be spreading...

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Dorothy Parker 5 years ago

These people worship fools and liars, that's their religion. A woman who posed for a shoe ad seated on a toilet and a scientist who knowingly falsified his statistics.

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Andrea Careless 5 years ago

An anti-vaxxer proudly introduced her cute little daughter to me. “Healthy as a horse,” she crowed. All I could think of was my uncle when he was 6, who was also as healthy as a horse. Until he got polio.

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Bored Protagonist 5 years ago

Why do they need to be educated? They'll be dead from a preventable disease soon enough.

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Corey Schauer 5 years ago

They should make a new law that any parent who does not vaccinate their kids willingly is to be charged with endangering the welfare of a child and we'll have the children taken away immediately if they fight back there to be executed immediately with a gun then maybe they can go talk to God and ask him what the right decision would have been

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

What I find more than mildly humorous is that NY State also has a law that states all children under 16 *must* go to school,or it *is* child abuse, and can be prosecuted as such. They'd better get their kids vaccinated fast...

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Viktor Feurer 5 years ago

Best law ever made. Anti-waxxers are simply idiots.

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Daniel 5 years ago

Stop being stupid and get your kids vaccinated now.

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Krysta Pandoo 5 years ago

Sound like a great idea. Now take the children away from these lunatics and vaccinate them so they can go to school like normal, non-diseasemongering children.

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Diamante J. Cameron 5 years ago

I have an immune disease and personality am so happy that this is a law. Now I know everyone will hate me. But when people are not vaccinated serves a extreme risk to me.

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Maia Jacobs 5 years ago

JUST VACCINATE THE CHILDREN

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Maia Jacobs 5 years ago

JUST F*****G VACCINATE YOUR CHILDREN

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Carrie Roettger 5 years ago

Aww those poor wittle anti-vax parents who who are so willfully ignorant. Play stupid games win stupid.prizes.

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Bella Bee 5 years ago

As someone who has a very compromised immune system due to years of chemo and immunosuppressants, I welcome the decision to ban unvaccinated kids from school until they’re vaccinated. It is so reckless and irresponsible to put not only your child’s health (and possibly life) at risk, but to put other children and adults like me at risk too. Every cold, every stomach bug - I get it. If my 3 year old niece is sick, I get ill too. Vaccinate your bloody children.

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Evripidou Maria 5 years ago

good job to the new york schools.

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Melody Reid 5 years ago

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Debbie 5 years ago

SERIOUSLY!!!!! I can't decide if it is more insulting, ridiculous, outrageous or "simply" an obvious case of being uneducated to draw comparisons to racism and the 2nd world war.

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Susan Riley 5 years ago

I'm 100% on the side of the NYC Schools. We have the same policy where I live. Maybe the anti-vaxer parents can start their own school - call it something like "Exceptional School for the Sick and Stupid."

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Retro Dan™ 5 years ago

Gee I'm sorry that your stupid decision to leave your kid open as a feeding ground for every virus, bacteria, mold, fungus, and disease that we've conquered isn't being passively accepted. Why don't you just bury your children now and save us all the time and trouble for when they die of polio or some other easily preventable illness?

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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago

Anti-vaxxers are dangerous to other people's health. " More than 800,000 children are to be targeted for vaccination in the Democratic Republic of Congo, after a measles outbreak killed more than 3,500 people this year. ... It has killed more Congolese people this year than Ebola." Ideas spread, even when they are worse than bad. Well done N.Y.!

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

There is no vaccine or treatment for Ebola. However, there is one for measles! You can be sure they'd sue the schools, their doctors and the state if one of their un-vaccinated little darlings had serious consequences from a preventable disease.

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lakitha tolbert 5 years ago

Every single one of their arguments is just wrong, They are wrong. These diseases had all but disappeared before this....whatever this is...

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

Call it what it is. Stupidity.

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Micah Pettit 5 years ago

One of the few things New York has done that I actually agree with. I'm shocked they actually enacted this, to be honest.

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Steve Cruz 5 years ago

REAL CRIME is being committed by these parents and the victims are their children. In the name of RELIGIOUS SUPERSTITION adults want to test "god" -- but it seems like these types never want to put their own lives at risk. They're happy to sacrifice their children. Most of the parents have been vaccinated and lived plague-free lives. What stupid selfish creeps they are.

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John Wilcox 5 years ago

Then the parents should homeschool no need to put other kids in danger because you're stupid

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Jasmine VALADIAN 5 years ago

They won't be protesting so much when an 'anti-vax' parent or the school is sued for exposing immunosuppressed children to dangerous preventable life-threatening diseases. What's funnier (not really) but these same parents then take their sick children to the hospital for help...hmmm...and guess what...the children are isolated. So are these parents going to say they are being discriminated against? Can't have it both .ways.

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Kathleen Nelson 5 years ago

Black people cannot change their status- that's why equating Jim Crow laws and these school requirements is so inappropriate! Just vaccinate your kid! Pretty sure God won't mind but there'll be hell to pay if your child infects mine!

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Hans Hodne 5 years ago

It's the right thing to do for New York. The scary thing here is that these people are now responsible for educating these kids without any interference from the school... I'm afraid this will lead to these ideas spreading and make the whole anti-vax/flat earth thing much much worse 😱

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Shruti Naik 5 years ago

They should make a law stating that not vaccinating your children is child abuse and then take their kids away to better homes and put the anti-vaxxers in prisons. I dont't remember where this happens but I've heard of a hospital where when the baby is born and the nurses take it away to clean it up, they also give the vaccines to the baby before they give the baby to the mother and if the parent protests, they're arrested immediately.

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Magpie 5 years ago

tangent: We can (almost ) cure Ebola. Why is this not all over the news ?????https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPyDnLyXuBI&t=6s

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

Almost. That doesn't comfort those who die.

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Magpie 5 years ago

----What if all these anti vac "evidence" is a plot by Russia or China to make u.s.a sick? ------ That question by a dr. turned around an anti vaccer is about 45 seconds.

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Magpie 5 years ago

Read that on Bored Panda some months ago.

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Max M 5 years ago

Easy, execute those parents for being a danger to public health, vaccinate the kids, give them new parents

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Clinton Yew 5 years ago

Well I'm pretty sure the numbers of parents and kids that are pro-vaxx are totally outnumbered you anti-vaxx people... So... protesting doesn't really helps.

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Benderong 5 years ago

Lol, all the salty anti-vaxxers should stop salting bored panda and go vaccinate their kids

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Clinton Yew 5 years ago (edited)

I remember there is one anti-vaxx bot here that will use the 30+ accounts to downvote pro-vaxx comments, I wonder if that fella is still around though...

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razan youssef 5 years ago

yes thats not the point of freedom of speech. the point is that you are entitled to your opinion no matter how messed up it is and you can say that

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Sara Cohen 5 years ago

Do any of you understand that no vaccine has ever been studied against an inert placebo and instead controls are injected with a completely different vaccine or the aluminum adjuvant or thimerosal itself? That means the studies are highly flawed. Every other drug is studied for at least 6 years with controls being given an inert placebo such as a sugar pill? They say it would be "unethical" to use an inert placebo in vaccine safety trials, and yet it's totally ethical that we the people are their guinea pigs? And vaccines are the only liability free product! Chronic disease and autoimmune disorders have risen at the same rate as our American vaccine schedule, which is the most aggressive vaccine schedule in the world - this is not a coincidence. It's no coincidence that year after year we top the list of sickest industrialized nations. Read the inserts. Read VAERS reporting system. Read the actual studies instead of believing polarized headlines and slogans.

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Red Pill 5 years ago

Vaccines are a perfect catch-22 cause your damned if you get them and your damned if you dont. You either get the diseases and possibly die or you get sterilized from chemicals that untraceable. Both are perfect ways of population control without causing civil unrest due to people being sheeple and believing everything big brother says.

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Joe Benner 5 years ago

I see a ton of vitriol, and damn ignorance on this thread for so many self-proclaimed compassionate people. People who aren't medical professionals, and aren't educated on this s**t, though act like experts on s**t they know nothing about. People who obviously support segregation as long as it's the segregation that they like. Crazy how I read one of the lefties tweet about "a child's right to life" but they would be the same ones to support late term abortions. What about the child's right to life in that instance? Bunch of f****n hypocrites

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Blackbunny38 The Awesome 5 years ago

There are people who can't get vaccines because of compromised immune systems. If everyone else gets vaccinated that doesn't matter because there's no way for the disease to spread to these children. But when people choose not to vaccinate that increases the number of hosts for these diseases, making it easier for them to spread.

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Aunt Messy 5 years ago

You don't ahve to vaccinateyour kids. Just the ones you want to keep....you ignorant cow.

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Aunt Messy 5 years ago

measles takes ten days to two weeks to incubate. That means that an unvaccinated child will be shedding live virus and making people sick for TEN DAYS before they show symptoms. Why don'r you go back to your reddit and whine about how everyone hates you?

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Alia G. 5 years ago

Just copy-pasting my response to another user: Some kids are forced to rely on herd immunity due to allergies to vaccines or other ailments keeping them from being vaccinated, or are on chemo, there's lots of reasons someone can't be vaccinated. When other people use herd immunity as a way to justify not vaccinating it endangers those who actually can't. So yeah, some parent do have to care if other kids aren't vaccinated. Also, it's child endangerment so it's really selfish not to worry.

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Aunt Messy 5 years ago

You spout that same line of b******t and lies all over the place. Go away.

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CP 5 years ago

What too many bad things does the MMR shot result in? All the research shows that statement isn't true. Good for Japan, but the science says they are wrong. The US healthcare system is a problem, you are correct about that. However that has nothing to do with all the good that come from vaccines.

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CP 5 years ago

Just can't stay on topic can you?

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Pittsburgh rare 5 years ago

Maybe because IF they're unvaccinated is because of not having access to vaccines and not because their parents are frigging fanatics?

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Hard 2 Guess 5 years ago (edited)

You must be talking about undocumented migrant because documented migrants are required to have list of vaccines done to them for USA visa application, in their country, before they can even go see consulate of USA for a visa. And I am sure given the opportunity to vaccinate their kids. Parents of those undocumented kids will choose to vaccinate in a heartbeat.

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Benderong 5 years ago

Climate change protestors are smart, sensible and are fighting for a good cause. Anti-Vaxxers are selfish, arrogant and stupid people fighting for plague

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CP 5 years ago

One is based in facts (global warming) and the other in fiction (vaccines are bad). You can't use kids as propaganda tools when the subject isn't propaganda. Climate change is not propaganda. Ant-vaxx is propaganda. Get it?

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Alia G. 5 years ago

There's a difference between a 16 yr old and a 6 yr old

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CP 5 years ago

Nominating you for worst comment of the day so far

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Foxxy 5 years ago

That’s just not true. Yes my kids are vaccinated and I don’t stress about them getting vaccine preventable diseases but I do care about the ones that aren’t. Some people CAN’T be vaccinated due to allergies, immune compromised, too young etc. Many people care about a few kids being unvaccinated and that is one of the reasons why many places are bringing in compulsory vaccinations. Vaccinations are a social responsibility to protect the vulnerable, to build herd immunity and eradicate vaccine preventable diseases like small pox was.

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CP 5 years ago

You should learn about vaccines before commenting. It seems as though you don't know how they work.

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Alia G. 5 years ago

Some kids are forced to rely on herd immunity due to allergies to vaccines or other ailments keeping them from being vaccinated, or are on chemo, there's lots of reasons someone can't be vaccinated. When other people use herd immunity as a way to justify not vaccinating it endangers those who actually can't. So yeah, some parent do have to care if other kids aren't vaccinated. Also, it's child endangerment so it's really selfish not to worry.

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Kaisu 5 years ago

Equating being anti-vax to the Jim Crow law and the holocaust is just so f*****g insensitive and brainless. Even if your unvaccinated kid is healthy now, they could easily get something like measles and then infect a kid whose immune system is compromised and they can't handle the illness and will die

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Aunt Messy 5 years ago

They're child abusers - they're never going to understand how stupid they are.

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Corina Alvarez Loeblich 5 years ago

well, of course they are insensitive: they are antivaxx and will use ANY argument to support their reckless behaviour. They can open their own school and see what happens in there, like an evil petri dish!

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RaroaRaroa 5 years ago

The drinking fountain for vaccinated kids is so obviously faked for the photo. The sign isn't even taped in place, it would last 5 seconds. And if the unvaccinated kids are banned, there's no need to label the fountain. Pathetic behaviour.

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Meami 5 years ago

I wish I could up-vote your comment a 1000 times, Kaisu. That's the point exactly - their choice could kill others. If they don't want to vaccinate their children then they can keep their children permanently home and away from everyone else forever. (Or at least until the kid gets old enough to go get vaccinated themselves.)

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Marcellus the Third 5 years ago

The threat is mostly to the un-vaccinate-able youngest as well as the immunocompromised (chemotherapy etc)... Healthy kids can make it through measles etc with a bit of luck, the weaker not. That's the choice these AntiVaxx are making --- their freedom above your family members.

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James Gallegos 5 years ago

I always find it funny that the parents are vaccinated and have lived long enough to have children but won't vaccinate their kids? How's that fair?

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Noez 🇸🇪 5 years ago

Shut up and vaccinate your damn kids. And then shut up some more.

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A 5 years ago

Simple enough that even idiots who are too stupid to vaccinate their kids can understand.

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Michał Jastrzębski 5 years ago

antivaxxers? you mean, pro-epidemics? :>

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Joannie Goulet 5 years ago

I'll be calling them pro-epidemics from now on!

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François Bouzigues 5 years ago

Well done. It is a basic requirement in Spain and France. And it has been for decades.

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Pittsburgh rare 5 years ago

Well, not really. Can't tell about France, but in Spain it is not compulsory. However, most of us vaccinate our children because we're not dumb af. And we go the extra mile paying for very expensive vaccines that are not included in the free health care system. There are some idiots that don't vaccinate their kids though, but they are a rare minority. And thanks to those f*****s, now adults between 40-45 have to be vaccinated against measles because there has been an outbreak.

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Demi Zwaan 5 years ago

Would those parents also not have their children treated when they get sick? Because if God is against vaccines, I'm sure he's against every other medicine as well, right?

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Something 5 years ago

Sadly, some of them will give their children a near-lethal dose of essential oils instead of seeing a doctor.

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Ed Souza 5 years ago

Oh you didn't know? If they get sick, God will guide them to the best doctor around and get their kids healthy again...

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

I'm sure they 'pray them well',since, after all, sickness is caused by sin. (Oh, my aching head; people believe this stuff in this day and age...)

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Kristy P 5 years ago

But.. black children weren't going to infect susceptible children with a deadly illness just by being in the same room.

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Something 5 years ago

Also, there was nothing the parents could do to make them be allowed into the school.

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Dani Lee 5 years ago

Good! I agree with this decision, they can have the right to not vaxx but our kids shouldn't be getting sick because of their "religious beliefs".

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Aunt Messy 5 years ago

The funny thing is that NOT ONE religion ever said a word about vaccinations. The religious exemptions are just made-up b******t.

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Night Owl 5 years ago (edited)

New York did the right thing. All the parents using their kids for their personal propaganda, equating the new laws to the Jim Crow law, to the holocaust etc. should be ashamed of themselves, shut up and finally vaccinate kids already for f***s sake (Sorry; I tried to be levelheaded but...)

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Wil Vanderheijden 5 years ago

If anything this post shows how delusional anti-vaxxers are. If they want to make comparisons they should compare their children to the biological warfare in the trenches during WW1. Because that's what they are doing: Sending infected children out on the street and knowingly and willingly taking a risk of infecting other children that because of their age didn't have their vaccinations yet. It's just unbelieveable that CPS doesn't go after these idiots, but is willing to start procedures when parents choose to let their chiildren play outside without supervision.

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Rhys Cernunnos 5 years ago

CPS already has their hands full as it is. Unfortunately.

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Michelle Chevalier 5 years ago

Are they serious!!! How dare they have the nerves to use the history of Anne Frank and African American during times of segregation as a comparison to what they are going through. And to make it worse, they use their clueless children by making them hold protest sign to try to provoke sympathy. The State of New York is doing them and everybody else a favor. We need other states to follow suit.

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Herb Eaversmells 5 years ago

F**k these people, in the mid 90s my 11 year old cousin died of an easily vaccinated disease. She was physically handicapped and she was,not able to be vaccinated. A few months ago, my wife and I had the audacity to take our 2,month old,daughter grocery shopping with us. Later that week a,confirmed measles case was in our county, and went to the same store we had gone and in the same time frame, luckily she never got sick....

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Whatever... 5 years ago

That must have been a scary time for you to wait and see if your daughter would be okay. Sorry you had to go through that.

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Lauren Caswell 5 years ago

Measles has broken out in new Zealand I have chronic lung disease and am undervaccinated. I'm scared to go out, and terrified my 9 yr old will bring it home. This is all thanks to anti vaxxers

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Karen Lyon 5 years ago (edited)

I am sorry for your loss, I know losing your cousin must have been tough. I will a I am so very glad your daughter did not get sick. It's so sad and infuriating that in the 21st century we have to deal with this level of ignorance.

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Lira Mai 5 years ago

These kids would not be out of school if not for their parents. And now they have their kids hold their placards.

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Katinka Min 5 years ago

It make me so f*cking angry if these peole compare themselves to the victims of the Shoa or Racism. It is their CHOICE to endanger their children and others. the choose to spit science in the face. But I do love the fact that American anti-vaxxers call it a 'religion'. Because that is exaclty what it is: an irrational supersticious belief.

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Soggy Crumpet 5 years ago

I am pro-vaccination and my children are fully vaccinated. I am also a Christian. Do not issue insults to those of us with common sense and also believe in a Higher Power.

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Abbey Impson 5 years ago

and just how many of the adults that are protesting this decision were vaccinated as children??? conservative estimate says nearly all of them.

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Roger Haywood 5 years ago

It's horrific when people use religion as an excuse not to vaxinate their kids. Where in the bible does god condone vaxinations? I'm Atheist and even I know that there isn't anything like that. I think people should believe whatever they want, but not at the expense of endangering kids.

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Just saying 5 years ago

I'm a pretty conservative Christian, I know my Bible very well, and I know there isn't anything like that either. On this we agree.

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Caren Johnson 5 years ago

Vaccines didn't even exist! What page of the Bible did they warp for their own intention

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Cheryl Wilcox 5 years ago

This is for Alex Chiaradio: The only vaccines that are made in human cells are chickenpox (varicella), rubella, and hepatitis A, in addition to one of the available rabies vaccines. The viruses for these vaccines were grown in cells taken from elective terminations of pregnancies, which took place in the early 1960s. Since then, the cell lines for these vaccines have been maintained in the lab and no further sources of fetal cells are necessary to make these vaccines.

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Alex Chiaradio 5 years ago

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tuzdayschild 5 years ago

This is not Jim Crow. My black skin does not put anyone at risk of disease or dying.

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Karen Lyon 5 years ago

It's insulting to you personally, to your race in general, and to the intelligence of right thinking people.

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Jason Doakes 5 years ago

Should all be arrested for child endangerment. Freaking fanatics.

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Baba Caine 5 years ago

Is it only Americans who can chose to not Vax ? It was compulsory when i was kid, and all my nieces and nephews had to but then i from merry old England and we like to try keep are kids safe and sound 🤔

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EHops 5 years ago

Yeah sad to say the country I call home is riddled with idiots who believe their opinion is fact.

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Jennie-Lind Normand 5 years ago

There are some in Canada but no where near as fervent as the ones in this post.

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Kimara 5 years ago

Sadly we have the same battle happenin in the Netherlands. It's so dumb.

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Joannie Goulet 5 years ago

Sadly we have them here too, in Canada. We had an outbreak of measles a few years ago in Quebec because of the anti-vaxxers of a religious sect.

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Karen Lyon 5 years ago

No, sadly, measles is on the rise in Europe as well. This anti-vaxx c**p has taken hold there. That's what makes it really scary.

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

I'm American;it was compulsory in my state! When did this nonsense become a thing? Hell, my mother had ne vaccinated after I'd had both forms of measles, just in case they'd mutated!

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Cherie of Numenor 5 years ago

Anti-vaxxers are the stupidest, most ignorant child abusers. They actually chose to put their children's health at risk, not to mention the general public's health at risk! How do they answer to that? Ignorant fools. They holler about religious freedom...my A*S. They make me sick. They literally caused the measles outbreak. And they equate this to Jim Crow laws...and the Holocaust? Excuse me while I VOMIT....

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TheDivineMs.M 5 years ago

Comparing your kid to Ruby Bridges and claiming anti-vax is your religion- give me a god damn break! Then when the child gets infected because of your ignorance, you deny responsibility and blame- PLEASE keep homeschooling your kids- do us- and by us i mean intelligent human beings- a favor.

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Perry Swift 5 years ago

It's pretty sick to have kids holding placards about how they want to go to school as emotional blackmail. Do you think they want polio, as well?

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Karen Lyon 5 years ago

Tell me about it. I am so afraid that polio could and would make a comeback. It would completely shut the anti-vaxxers up, but the price we'd pay. It makes me ill to think about it.

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Louise B 5 years ago

Oh, this is upsetting 😔 anyone who wants to bring God into it should remember that old joke about the person who refused help from a life raft during a flood because God was going to save them, when they drowned and got to the pearly gates, God said, 'why didn't you take the life raft that I sent you?' With antibiotics failing, we're probably living in the golden age of medical technology. We should be so grateful, but we're complacent.

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Panda-Tam 5 years ago

This is why the separation of church and state is so necessary. Let's hope it remains that way.

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

The divide has been getting pretty damn murky. I hope this serves as a wake-up clarion call to rational people.

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Pumbaa 5 years ago

Damn, I'm getting stupid just by reading this bs :D and these people want to homeschool their kids.. poor kids.

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Ivy D 5 years ago

Nothing is wrong with homeschooling. These people are just being stupid.

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Kathy Baylis 5 years ago

Simple solution: vaccinate your children! Might as well, since they’re going to do it themselves the second they turn 18. Medical science is NOT your enemy. The link between vaccinations and autism has been long ago disproven. It was the result of using too small a group of participants (and I believe no real control group), falsifying data and results, and throwing out data and results that did not prove the hypothesis, so the results can not be reproduced—-all of which are important components of pure scientific method and legitimate medical findings. Additionally, the quack who published his fake findings had a well known bias against pharmaceutical companies, which in turn biased his research. He has had his medical license revoked and will never be allowed to legally practice medicine again. Don’t you think that’s enough to prove his—-and your—-views on vaccinations are dead (potentially for your children) wrong?

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Claire 5 years ago

IF they turn 18...

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Lira Mai 5 years ago

The kid who is holding the "i want to go to school" placard looks like her sign doesn't express what she truly feels. I think she wants to go home and rest or play than be drag by her parents in their protest.

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Cactuar Jon 5 years ago

I am incredibly confused as to what the hell god has to do with not vaccinating your kids. Just another excuse for being a dumbass?

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

Since in the Dark Ages they believed that you got sick because you sinned, what does it say about this lot?

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Froganit Gamesy 5 years ago

Anne Frank died of Typhus, a disease we now can vaccinate against...

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marmitejim 5 years ago

Murdered by Typhus..... It was a stratagy by the Nazis.

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marmitejim 5 years ago

If any of the idiot parents actually experienced Jim Crow they'd realise what nonsense they're spewing..... As usual it's the kids that suffer for the parents uneducated beliefs and brainwashing.

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Leo Domitrix 5 years ago

And here I thought anti-vaxxers couldn't get more despicable. "Religious freedom"? "Jim Crow"? Wow.

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marmitejim 5 years ago

You can't go to school with your friends because your Mum is a complete idiot who rejects education.

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Loretta 5 years ago

Jeez these people are so f*****g stupid.

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Ed Souza 5 years ago

I would be pissed if my daughter got sick for being close to a child that didn't get vaccinated. These anti-vaxxers are selfish, entitled c***s... Sadly, most people are like this lately.

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Bee / she/her 3 years ago

Full Name, actually not. Vaccines make it easier for the body to fight the virus as there is already immunity. So a vaccinated person that gets infected is MUCH less likely to develop symptoms (and therefore MUCH less likely to spread the disease), MUCH less likely to have severe symptoms, and MUCH less likely to die

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Kjorn 5 years ago

kids has Nothing to do with that yeah.. it's their F*****g moron parents who are (i'm pretty sure) vaccinated.

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Alia G. 5 years ago

How entitled, ignorant, and privileged do you have to be?

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C.S. 5 years ago

There are no "opinions" in this. This is NOT an argument. Un-vaccinated people have an INCREASED likely hood of spreading disease. PERIOD. There is NO DISCUSSION to be had. No more than a discussion about whether humans can breath underwater. A black child was NO threat to anyone else in the school. Neither were any Jewish segregated as any real threat either. But it's a proven fact that not only does the science behind vaccines work (I give you the end of polio, small pox, etc), but as does the concept of heard immunity. I'm vaccinated, so I'm not frightened by the unvaccinated. But I fear for the newborn baby that your choice threatens with death.. For the immune compromised child that you are threatening with death. That is factual reality. Do vaccines have risk? Yes. Does that risk outweigh it's benefits. NO. You might say well maybe not to me, but that's b******t. Risks are a numbers games. Maybe your kid is fine with them, maybe not. Welcome to life.

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

As I told my surgeon when he was listing the 'dangers' of my spinal surgery, I have a higher risk of getting hit by an unobservant driver! Risks are minimal if you aren't compromised in some fashion,and those people KNOW their problems!

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Tres D 5 years ago

Why should everybody else risk the health of their children because you're too ignorant to get you child vaccinated!?! The poor decisions you make in life always have consequences. Deal with it!

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Ianthez 5 years ago

Why on Earth are these parents comparing this to people who suffered from the Nazis? This is extreme comparing this to the holocaust and the Jim Crow law. This has nothing to do with religion, it's about keeping our children healthy. If you hate homeschooling so much, why don't you just vaccinate your kids? Just saying, but no one is 100% healthy :/ . Going on about the Jim Crow law, THAT was racism. This is the government deciding that they want the children to be safe and healthy. The people who suffered from the Jim Crow law had no control over their skin color. These parents have the choice of vaccinating. This is preposterous to even compare these situations.

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Bored Moogle 5 years ago

There are NO religions WHATSOEVER that forbid vaccines. NONE. NADA. ZILCH.

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Kate Gladstone 5 years ago

When people object to vaccinations because the cells came from unborn children killed by abortion, why don’t the same people object to getting organ transplants because the organs came from children/adults killed by murderers or drunk drivers?

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Sue Prewitt 5 years ago

I'm confused. What does this have to do with religion? It is strictly about health. As a person with a compromised immune system, THANK YOU!

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Eric Mac Fadden 5 years ago

This "thing" is beginning to show up in Brazil. But we have tropical diseases, anti-vaxxers vanishes so fast "I can't imagine why".

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maswartz 5 years ago

How many of those parents are only alive because their own parents vaccinated them?

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Karen Lyon 5 years ago

All. Of. Them. I know. The height of entitled ingratitude, that.

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Bunzilla 5 years ago

These parents are doing this to their kids, not the government. Choosing not to vaccinate their children is in no way similar to the kinds of violent discrimination faced by those who have absolutely no choice in the way that they're born. Sure, their kid seems healthy now, but not only can they spread diseases the rest of us have been vaccinated against to the immunocompromised, but the viruses can mutate among the anti-vaxx population, and then we'll have huge pandemics on our hands. Do they want Polio? Smallpox? Because this is how it will happen. We had almost eradicated Measles, now it's made a return. It's pure stupidity.

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Jeff Heinemann 5 years ago (edited)

When I was growing up, I had to have my little card signed by my doctor saying which shots I've had. I couldn't enroll without it! End of story! That was in the '70's!

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

Me, too. And I was 18 months old before the polio vaccine was introduced. I LIKE vaccines. I had the measles because there was no vaccine yet. These a******s know not what they rail about.

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Allen Lavine 5 years ago

This is nothing like segregation because they have a choice we didn’t choose to be born black

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Nuno Barros 5 years ago

26,217 victims of child abuse. Those parents should answer in court for threats to human life and public health. Someone call Child Protective Services... And boredpanda, there's too much of a pity undertone in this article. There's no sympathy to be had for these bio-terrorists. They are not qualified to be parents.

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Artur Niedzielski 5 years ago

So now anti-vax movement is a religion? I don't want to live on this planet anymore...

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

Anti-vaxxing is not a religion. It's a bunch of idiots hiding behind their religion because they can't--and won't--think.

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SBW71 5 years ago

Wow New York actually gets it, amazing. Good. I don't want my kid catching something that could've been avoided because of some parents are just too stupid to get educated on this matter of being vaccinated. This is precisely why people should pass a test and get a license to have kids.

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Lauren Caswell 5 years ago

Now I want to move to new York!

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SirPatTheCat 5 years ago

Oh my god small children are so malleable — you could tell them that the government was arresting all unicorns and they’d write up signs saying, “Free the unicorns!” Just saying that buying some random poster board and telling your kids what to write on it is not an effective way to prove your point...

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Kururi.Orihara 5 years ago

Is it possible to consider the “anti-vaxx” a terrorist group now?

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Magpie 5 years ago

Measles and polio and the rest as weapons of mass destruction??? Maybe. The saddest thing is the kids who *medically* cannot be vaccinated are the vulnerable ones.

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George Digamma 5 years ago

Many of the same people who protest to ban smoking for health reasons, and they are totally right, do not vaxxinate their kids. I don't get it.

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Magpie 5 years ago

I am fascinated by your assertion George. Where did you find that ?

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Misha Christensen-wildeman 5 years ago

i cannot see how they even allow kids in a school without vaccines, in south africa it is not accepted at all, every school pre school u apply to they want to see your vaccination book. the day ur child is born u get ur first shot to protect u, no school will even consider ur application if your child is ot fully vaccinated

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Amberly Middlemiss 5 years ago

what the heck does vaccinating have to do with religion? my whole family is Christian and we're all vaccinated, there's nothing in the bible that says anything about it!

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Jennifer Rapp 5 years ago

As a person who has been through chemo I think this is fantastic. Those parents who compare this to Jim Crow or the Holocaust, need to go back to school.

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

Chances are THEY were homeschooled by their own idiots.

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Matthew Smith 5 years ago

Well done New York,

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Morgen Michaels 5 years ago

My only concern is for the children who CANT get vaccinated. Not the kids of parents that are anti vaxxers. Im talking the kids who have reasonable parents who want their child protected, but for allergic or other health reasons actually CANT get vaccinated. I would hope that they would still be allowed to attend school. After all, the whole point of mass vaccines is to protect the ppl who are at greater risk (ie elderly, immune weak, allergic, etc)

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

That's a medical exemption, not a 'religious' one. Only California is talking about ending medical exemptions. Normally herd health protects those with medical exemptions, as long as religious ones have been trashed.

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Parmeisan 5 years ago

I was looking into this (I'm surprised no one else on here is talking about it). Looks like they've tightened the requirements (doctors must fill out a long form instead of providing a basic signed statement) but also appears that some schools are denying legitimate claims, probably (this is my own guess) in fear of the $2000 fine (per student) for violating the law. https://www.lohud.com/story/news/health/2019/09/23/ny-vaccinations-what-know-medical-exemptions-religious-ban-enforcement/2388089001/

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Pol Macqueron 5 years ago

That comparison with Anne Franck makes me want to cry

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Louise B 5 years ago (edited)

That's what's so horrific, I don't think anti vaxers are evil - far from it, they genuinely believe that they are protecting their children. However, to invoke the holocaust is deplorable, there is no comparison. In the past children died from measles and other now preventable diseases, but antivaxers just ignore that fact. The holocaust was a man made event. In the same way thousands of children could die if there was no vaccination - do the antivaxers have a word for an event like that?

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Kate Gladstone 5 years ago

No, they don’t have a word for it ... just as they don’t have a word for “people who are alive because they were vaccinated, which they don’t want their own children to be.”

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Martha Meyer 5 years ago

It's interesting that some of these people claim their religious beliefs are targeted. When did antivaxxers become a religious group?!

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

But their version of whatever passes as scripture says that sin causes sickness, so vaccines come from the devil. Or something. They're not able to read big words like vaccine, so they get some other ignorant dumbass to 'explain' it to them, and it becomes gospel. They then claim that their so-called religion forbids the vaccinations, and...

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frederic eeckman 5 years ago

It took me a while to understand why they were talking about religion... Yeah, surely Jesus wasn't vaccined :D The funny thing is that "religious freedom is a right", but not if you are a muslim.

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Logan Slaughter 5 years ago

Jesus, they're comparing this to Jim Crow and the Holocaust? There's a difference for hating someone based on race, and not wanting to risk spreading diseases because some cretins would rather believe some half-brained conspiracy theorists than tried and true scientific fact!

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honeyjewels416 5 years ago

Why is everyone being so righteous now !!!! I am sure the majority of those parents are vaccinated stupid ignorant and selfish people. If it weren't for vaccines all of us would be dead you MORONS!!! polio, tuberculosis, malaria ebola all these killer diseases. Homeschooling is not going to take these diseases away you ignorant individuals!!!!. GOOD FOR YOU NEW YORK I SUPPORT THE LAW 100%!!!!

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Just saying 5 years ago

I'm a pretty conservative bible believing Christian but nowhere I know in the Bible does it say not to vaccinate your child, and I can think of no Bible principle that could be applied in this way to this issue. I have no idea where these guys are getting it from. It may be against a religion they've made up for themselves, but I can't see how they are justifying this from the Bible. Can someone enlighten me?

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Janet Robbins 5 years ago (edited)

I seriously don't think there is one, they just use that exemption as an excuse. My brother and his wife didn't vaccinate their child and they are not religious at ALL but they used the religion exemption to get their daughter into school. Well joke's on her cause she has to homeschool her this year! (they live in NY) They don't speak to me cause I told them they were morons and that her 20 minutes of internet "research" does not make her an expert.

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Whatever... 5 years ago

LOL! Using the 'religious beliefs ' card is just hilarious! NY schools have students of every religious background, as well as atheism, in their schools.

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Michael Lovelock 5 years ago

Anti-vaccine adults are so shockingly DUMB!!!!!!!!!

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Christina Sersif 5 years ago

I really don’t understand the logic of these anti vax people. You’re potentially allowing your child to catch a disease that was nearly wiped from existence just a few decades ago! If you want to choose a possible deadly disease that could kill your child and others who can’t get vaccinated because you’re afraid of autism. America is a free country so yes don’t vaccinate your child that’s your choice, but don’t subject others to your ridiculous beliefs. There’s consequences to every action you take.

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Nathalie Langevin 5 years ago

I applaud the city's decision. Those parents, too stupid to inform themselves thoroughly, should be persecuted for not taking appropriate care of their children. My immune system is close to nothing and getting a child's disease could have some very serious consequences for me . If your religion means someone else than yourself should die, your religion is very very very wrong!

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NWB 5 years ago

How it has always been in Australia.

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Deborah Brett 5 years ago

Christian Scientist and Dutch Reform Church are the main anti-vaccine religions in the US. Are these 'anti-vaxx' families actually members of these religions, or were they just taking advantage of the religious exemption loophole? 'Pseudo-science conspiracy wingnut' is not an actual religion.

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Doug 5 years ago

A massive congregation on un-vaxxed kids... this problem should take care of itself soon enough.

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Lauren Caswell 5 years ago

Yeah a pro-vaxx rally came down to my town just under a month ago...Now measles is also in my town...damn them

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Ivy D 5 years ago

What about those, like me, who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons? Are we going to be able to go to school? We actually have no choice, as we could literally die if we had them.

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Janet Robbins 5 years ago

medical exemptions are different and a big part of the reason why vaccinations are required in schools, to help protect people like you who CAN'T get vaccinated!

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Missy Barton 5 years ago

Vaccinate your f*****g kids!

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Mary Pease 5 years ago

I always had to have vaccinations before going to school. AS YOU SHOULD. So something does not by chance spread across the whole school... I swear. I am glad this was done. This whole anti-vax thing started on a hoax and it needs to stop.

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Nicole Helmberger 5 years ago (edited)

Vaccinate your kids. Or never ever ever ever take them to a medical professional for any reason. If medical professionals are part of the evil vaccination conspiracy - than they cannot be trusted for anything else that ails your kid from bad eyesight and cavities to a broken bone. Or...just vaccinate your damn kid.

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Nerdiqueen 5 years ago

There's a difference between healthy and not-disease-carrying. Some diseases are dormant but flare up when carried.

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cybermerlin2000 5 years ago

Lock up the anti-vax parents in cells and sit them with open Petri dishes of concentrated doses of preventable diseases and make sure the vaccine is right in front of them where they can voluntarily inject themselves. Lets see who caves in first

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Aunt Messy 5 years ago

That's the ironic thing. THEIR parents vaccinated them.

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Kelly Pearson 5 years ago

Urgent care nurse practitioner here- Had an anti-vax parent tell me she doesn't vaccinate because she has a hard time with heat/ hot showers and blames vaccines because, well, she got vaccines as a child. Thus, she apparently thinks instead of turning down the temperature of her shower that she should expose her child and the rest of the global community to communicable diseases that may kill her children and others. You shouldn't get to kill your children and others because you are f*****g nuts.

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Cassie 5 years ago

Somebody's going to have to give me the Bible passage that says not to vaccinate. I seem to have missed that one.

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Sandy J Renfroe 5 years ago

Is your child REALLY 100% healthy? Are they harboring a disease? They could be healthy snd still be a carrier like Typhoid Mary. If my vaccinated child goes near your UN-vaccinated child, and then my child brings home chicken pox or measles to my baby who is too young to be vaccinated, and then my baby DIES, can I charge you with MURDER?

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SirWriteALot 5 years ago

Your religion is your choice. Practice it at home, do whatever you want unless it hurts others. When you join the public, abide by the rules or stay the f**k at home. Well done NY

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Mike Greco 5 years ago

Anti-vaxxers are going to Darwin themselves out of the gene pool eventually. So, everybody else, just be patient.

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Nichole Boseman 5 years ago

What is wrong with people. A child being black or jewish is not a public health crisis. A child being a potential carrier of a deadly disease is. A black or jewish child isn't going to infect another kid with their race or religion. However, some unvaccinated kid pass their germs on to someone who can't, by no fault of their own, get the shots. Sure, your kid is "healthy" until they're not. And i seriously doubt you're screening them daily for mumps/measles/rubella/whooping cough/tetanus/etc.

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🏳️‍🌈👻EmoExtreemo👻🏳️‍🌈 5 years ago

Religion is okay as long as it doesn't interfere with people's pursuit of happiness. Ex: Satanists aren't aloud to make human sacrifices.

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Isabella kratosisy 5 years ago

Since when is being antivax a religion?

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Momo Skarsgård 5 years ago

This makes me sad for the children.

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Candice Ravel 5 years ago

I'd love to know if these window licking anti vaxxers were vaccinated as kids. Chances are pretty good that they were, which proves that stupidity skips a generation, since their parents weren't f*****g morons using made up b******t to protest. You have to be a special kind of fucktard to equate your unvaccinated crotch fruit being barred from school because you're a twat, to Jim Crow and Nazis exterminating people

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Caroline Arcand-Wright 5 years ago

It is easier to fool people than convince them they have been fooled! Right NYS? So many unbelievably uneducated people when it comes to vaccines.

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Minnie-me 5 years ago

Now if we can get every other state to follow that would be great mmmk?

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Gabriela VK 5 years ago

if anyone wants to waste a few seconds and check out Melissa's twitter feed - posts several tweets a day on the same anti-vax subject. Reads and sounds like a cult and has definitely been brain washed.

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Ian Taggart 2 years ago

FINALLY! I cannot tell you how INFURIATING it is that people claim that not vaccinating your children is a form of attempted murder and that anti-vax parents are the scum of the earth and all that 🐂💩. We finally see things from their point of view and recognise them as people This IS segregation and I will not stand for it.

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David cedermark 5 years ago

Poor kids who can’t go to school because their parents are stupid.

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Judwin Ndzo 5 years ago

I wonder what religion bans vaccines?

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

Any religion who thinks you can pray them better.

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Corey Schauer 5 years ago

I think New York should pass a bill that states that any person who is an anti vaxxer with a child if they do not vaccinate their kids they are to be arrested their kids are to be taken away and then vaccinated by the state and the parents are to be charged with endangering the welfare of a minor

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Sarah Luna 5 years ago

I'm one of the ones at risk, I'm on an immunosuppressant (for MS) and will catch a cold from a sneeze three counties away. Of course I've been vaccinated but if there's a strain of ANY long-forgotten-but-making-an-appearance I'm screwed. Thanks to people who still believe that vaccines cause Autism. Vaccines cause adults, missy.

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Marlene Ricker 5 years ago

Right on, New York. It's time something was done.

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Inservio Letum 5 years ago

New problem : wave of homeschooled children educated exclusively by the educationally illiterate. Either mandate educator licensing, or mandate vaccination, because this is going to cause a SERIOUS problem in the next generation.

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Janelle Collard Premium 5 years ago

Vaccinate your kids or home-school them: Your choice. Get other people sick cuz your kids aren't vaccinated - our choice.

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

Thing is, I really don't want them passing on the s**t they believe! And they will...

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Magpie 5 years ago

My grandmother told me about the effects of polio. - Long prams for adults. She was sooo grateful for the vaccines, so she would not have to see her children/grand children get this horrible disease.

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Trude Stener Hansen 5 years ago

Great! It should be illigal to not vaccinate children. In my country it isn't a choice, yet no one seems to have a problem with it. You are obligated to get them. Their argument that God decides and Jesus didn't do it is faulty anyway. If there even was a God, they obviously gave us the capability to make them, and Jesus.. well, he died in his 30s. Great example. I hope the rest of your country follow 👍🏻

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Pamela Hanna 5 years ago

Apparently I'm just old, but before I could go to school (or my kids) we HAD to show our immunization records before we could ever get IN THE DOOR? I will never understand the pretense of not vaccinating a child? Some of these parents who have decided not to vaccinate are referencing "knowledge and research" that vaccines cause disabilities, or can lead to this or that, or they blame "the man" or the big pharmaceutical companies. If they had done their "real" research they would know that viruses like measles have incubation periods...your child is perfectly healthy on the outside but they are, in fact, possibly transmitting that to every single person they come near for anywhere from 7 to 10 days PRIOR to any symptoms showing. Congratulations to a generation that has singlehandedly taken a once eradicated virus and brought it back to the forefront!! GOOD FOR NY for standing their ground on public health!

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Rodrigo AR 5 years ago

the only thing that is infinite is human stupidity.

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Riddle_Rifle 5 years ago

awwww the girl holding the poster backwards (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ *:･ﾟ✧

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Claire 5 years ago

I was homeschooled up until high school and I loved it, but I don't think that these are good parents to be teaching their kids things. Hopefully the kids will be able to break away from their parents' beliefs and vaccinate when they turn 18.

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Magpie 5 years ago

And then get the ability somehow to recover from non-logical , non-science-understanding home schooling "teachers".

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Flame Phoenix 5 years ago

... They deserve it, I don't want to possibly get a preventable disease because my friend didnt get vaxxed

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Bredan TheGreat 5 years ago

The thing I find most stupid about this who anti-vax thing is that 99% of the parents that aren't vaccinating their kids had had vaccines. They don't cause autism people

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NotMe 5 years ago

Wait wait wait.... are you telling me anti-vaxxers don't vaccinate their children becaue of GOD...? Is it a religious belief??? I didn't know this....

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Vinga Älvebjörk 5 years ago

All in favour. This is excellent. Anti-vaxxers are a plague to society. Get it? Plague. That's what occurs when enough people don't vaccinate.

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

There's no vaccine against stupidity.

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Slune 5 years ago

Can you imagine the results of homeschooling when this idiots do the teaching. Poor America!

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Wim Cossement 5 years ago

Yes! Those morons finally got what they deserve! I want moar of this!

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Shana Moe 5 years ago

Wai- I was wondering what is all the religious talk about.... They legit think that god is against vaccines? oh god...

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Jo Choto 5 years ago

Sometimes people are too stupid to be allowed to make their own decisions. Vaccination of children should be mandatory, period.

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

I heard an otherwise extremely intelligent woman spouting some of this c**p. That goodness her kids are in their thirties!

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Lorraine Woollands 5 years ago

These stupid people think their children are being banned from school because of religion. How dare they link their stupidity with the race ban of coloured kids when they was banned from white schools. They choose not to vaccinate their kids (let them get sick) but vaccinating is to protect all kids from getting ill. What would they say if by an off chance a child that has been vaccinated gives their kids an illness . Because even though they have been vaccinated they can still carry an illness

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Taffy Lindley 5 years ago

I want to see this un-vaccinated kids growing up.... Living life then on the eve of something big, come down with a debilitating disease that hasn't been seen in over 200 years. What will their parents say then? Jus Saying (I don't wish ill to anyone, but their parents need the harsh truth)

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

"It's God's will." (This is why I firmy support the separation of church and state!)

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Azzam Afif 5 years ago

Imagine being kicked out because of their parents stupidity

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Christophe Beunens 5 years ago

I have a solution : We open 1 school for ALL the unvaccinated people, no matter the reason. One of them get's the measels, and we can quarantaine them all. Let the strongest ones survive!

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Lauren Caswell 5 years ago

The sad thing is they don't just risk their own child's health, but the health of kids who are too young to be immunised, immuno-compromised kids who can't be vaccinated, and also immuno-compromised parents like me. Thank f***k I was able to be vaccinated as a kid, and my chronic lung disease only developed in my 30s

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MikeWheelerFan 3 years ago

With these parents homeschooling is definitely a bad thing but usually it’s a good thing, even better than public school.

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Sarah Fox 4 years ago

Oh so if you guys care about ‘discrimination’ where were you when black people where getting killed by the police and discriminated against or when gays were refused wedding cakes, oh right you didn’t care it only matters when it’s you “suffering” and comparing dangerous kids being left out of school to a mass murder of Jews or black people being denied is freaking insensitive. GO back to your sad troll cave.

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Blueberry Woofle 4 years ago

Makes me sad how they think WE'RE the people doing something wrong - yeah right!

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Karen Lyon 5 years ago

I have absolutely no sympathy for these people. My late mother was a nurse for 42 years, and when she was a nursing student, she took care of people in iron lungs. The cousin of one of my best friends was born shortly and after the war and became permanently disabled by polio. As a child, I remember how women who were exposed to German measles would miscarry or give birth to kids with serious birth defects. We have to buckle down on this anti-vaccine nonsense. These foolish parents take for granted their own blessed health that they have from vaccinations. They choose to ignore the lessons that we have learned from the polio epidemic of the 40's and 50's, and the German measles scares of the 60's. But in doing so, they don't care if we pay the price. They can rant and rave about their rights to education all they want. They do not have the right to put the lives of innocent children at risk. PERIOD.

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Eagle Girl 5 years ago

Wow... I agree with a New York mayor

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Alexis the kangaroo 5 years ago

They need to. I mean they even think that vaccines cause autism (which is a complete myth. It’s genetics that cause autism).

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Jamie Campfield Bates 5 years ago

How dare they compare the Holocaust and Jim Crow to their choice not to vaccinate their children! An unvaccinated child who spreads measles or other preventable diseases can die or kill someone else, because their parent’s choice. Thank you, New York, for protecting the public and governing with Common Sense.

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Samhhain Cat 5 years ago

These signs shouldn't say, "I want to go to school" but, "I want to live". Every single one of these parents should have their kids taken away. I'm glad NY has the balls to stand up to these morons.

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Maddie Painter 5 years ago

This is not wrong- i think they are completely and totally right! Your child may look healthy, but can carry a very fatal disease without even showing symptoms. These people are trying to compare straight up child abuse to racism, segregation and a girl who was brutally murdered in a concentration camp. Maybe learn the facts before trying to make up an excuse for you not vaccinating your children! Honestly, I was shocked to read this. And the photo of- only vaccinated children- man, are you that dumb to think that an anti-vaxx kid who could carry a virus should put the safety of others in jeopardy, because kids always put their mouths on the spout! Shame on all of you anti-vaxxers, or should I say neglectful parents!

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MammaG 5 years ago

There are NO religions that forbid vaccination. I wish the parents has been unvaccinated and rendered sterile.

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Julia King 5 years ago

Anti-vaxx people are idiots. They think that vaccines cause disease when really they prevent disease. I bet that half of them are anti-vaxx cause they don't want to put up with their child screaming because of the injection.

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Shawn Ruester 5 years ago

There should not be religious exception to vaccination in the first place. If your beliefs don't allow for your children to be vaccinated then you should home school them. I have no problems with school not allowing non-vaccinated children in, with the only exception of medically unable to be vaccinated.

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Kate Gladstone 5 years ago

Here’s a modest proposal: exempt ONE school in NYC from the vaccination requirement, allow ONLY anti-vaxxers to send their children to that school, and make that the ONLY school (other than homeschool) that a NYC anti-vaxxer is allowed to enroll children into, Make sure the school is next to a hospital that can handle the expectable epidemics. When those happen, publicize the fact, with detailed ongoing statistics of the incidence of measles and other contagious diseases at this school. Juxtapose those stats with interviews of anti-vaxxers talking about how wholesome the place is,

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Mrs. McCHUBS 5 years ago

I know a religion that supports anti vaccination. It’s called ‘Stupidity’ and its symbol is 🤤

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Manuel Delgado 5 years ago

Let's put together a demonstration for the antivax and the girl castration supporters can march together, all in their religion's name.

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Dulcinea73 5 years ago

This is SIMPLE BIOLOGY. A potentially fatal/devastating virus can be prevented with a simple shot. End of story. Seth Mnookin’s book “The Panic Epidemic” is a comprehensive overview of the vaccination controversy. Jenny McCarthy was the first & most vocal celebrity touting her BELIEF that a vaccine caused her son to develop autism - a belief for which there is ZERO scientific evidence. Her conclusion violated a basic rule of scientific proof: just because 2 events occur close together in time does NOT prove a cause-and-effect relationship between the two. Many public health officials loosely compare vaccinations to wearing seatbelts: while wearing them is technically a personal decision, laws now require they be worn for the safety of everyone on the roads. It’s a PUBLIC SAFETY issue. NOTHING in medicine is without risk. But when the risks of vaccinations are SO minimal compared to the devastating consequences of NOT vaccinating, there is NO defensible reason for not vaccinating.

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Ageisa Moscat 5 years ago

I say if it’s possible to homeschool your child/children, then go for it. I’d rather that than to risk my child/children safety with all these ridiculous “random” school shootings and child abuse that gets brushed under the rug. Because of Power & Money.

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Patrick Timmel 5 years ago

Antivaxxers are a menace to society. Do the math. Vaccines have saved and improved the lives of billions of people since their inception. But your children are special. So special that you are willing to risk their lives and the lives of others due to your arrogance. Keep the law. Ignorance deserves no respect.

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Patrick Timmel 5 years ago

Do the math. Vaccinations have saved millions of lives around the world since they were discovered and developed. If you want you kids in public places...especially schools, then don't threaten other children by not having your child vaccinated. If so many live in NYC, then start your own private school for fools. I have no problem keeping unvaccinated children segregated from those that are.

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Irene Walton 5 years ago

Good for the school, these parents have to vaccinate there kids, or get lost

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Laura Lafaire 5 years ago

Antivaxxers are insane. I have read up on cases where their children go and get vaccinated anyway because they realize how insane their parents are.

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kathryn stretton 5 years ago

Woman this week lost her twin unborn babies because she caught measles. Unborn. Maybe the mother wasn't vaccinated as a child, I don't know. This was in the U.S. I think. Not sure. Measles killed the foetuses. Heartbreaking.

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Andrea Galek 5 years ago

Truly mind boggling how easily the masses can be swayed. What a great one sided article. I wonder how many that have commented have done any research on the matter. I used to be just like most of these commenters. I thought "anti vaxxers" were stupid. My kids were never late for their shots. Then I started to read and think for myself. Most "anti vaxxers" are actually EX vaxxers. But hey, let's not report on that. Who cares about the kids that are harmed by vaccines. Much easier to just believe the narrative that you are spoon fed, than to be a free thinker. Now let's watch mob rule take over after I post this.

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

That one comment had it wrong. It should read: "Anne Frank was murdered by Nazis. Your children will be murdered by you."

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rai mei 5 years ago

My dear Philippines is following this anti-vaccine trend in America.. well what can I say, most people here follow US trends... Polio has resurfaced here due to ignorant anti-vaxxers

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Caroline Driver 5 years ago

Religious reasons? What, they're saying that they don't vaccinate because God doesn't want them to? Did they have pain relief when they gave birth? Did they use disposable nappies on their kids? Are there not millions of Christians out there who are quite happy vaccinating their kids? Most pathetic excuse ever.

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David Burca 5 years ago

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Kassandra White 5 years ago

Either vaccinate your spawn, hire a tutor, or homeschool. You made choices going directly against their rules and policies knowingly. You are not special and you don't get to do whatever you want. Free education comes at an expense and that expense is making sure your child is up to standard with rules and policies. Purposefully not vaccinating your kids means they don't get a free education and that is 100% your fault.

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Justa Fungui 5 years ago

Either homeschool or vaccinate your kids, the choice iss just that easy.

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Dylan Forbes-Wilkinson 5 years ago

please all just watch the kurtzgesagt video on this topic before you form your opinion, thank you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBkVCpbNnkU

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Dylan Forbes-Wilkinson 5 years ago

everyone who sees this post should go watch the kurtzgesagt vaccines video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBkVCpbNnkU

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Lisa Scott 5 years ago

I support the law as well. I don't want my Grand children dying from a preventable dose. Furthermore just because a child is "healthy" it does NOT mean they couldn't be a carrier. Vaccinations PREVENT disease!

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Lilly Ives 5 years ago

Honestly, the reason this is even a problem right now is because America tries too hard to be the “cool” country. Like, the religious exemptions from doing certain things, now when you have to take it away because your citizens are spoiled and think they know everything, they freak out and start throwing up signs and using their poor children as pawns. Antivaxxers, obviously you THINK you’re right and shouldn’t have to vaccinate your kid. But we don’t want your infected kid to infect our babies

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Dorothy Parker 5 years ago

How about posters of the medically fragile who can't be vaccinated and who depend on herd immunity? Medical masks to respect their privacy.

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Kate Gladstone 5 years ago

Herd immunity has an unfortunate name — it would better be called “community immunity.”

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Kristy Dukes 5 years ago

1 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

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Jennifer Lambert 5 years ago

I don't want you an unvaccinated kid in my school. This isn't a choice, your kid propagates sickness. You don't want to follow the social norms then home school your kids. Because I don't want your kid to kill mine by accident. The shots didn't kill you as a kid so vaccinate your dang kids!

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Gameking1happy 5 years ago

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Robyn 5 years ago

Oh well, it’s the r******d parents fault for not vaccinating them. And don’t you DARE compare this to Jim Crow laws, it is NOTHING alike.

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Delaney 5 years ago

Why do they need to go to school? They won’t live long enough to use it.

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Trude Stener Hansen 5 years ago

I don't care if your child isn't sick. I care that a child can carry a desease with them and give them to someone who isn't healthy enough to get vaccinated. Not by choice, but because they CAN'T. Now I'm happy I live in a country where this isn't even an issue. It's not like we don't have religious people here, we do, they just aren't stupid 🙈

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Trash Panda 5 years ago

Every one of these parents are ignorant and possess no idea as to what the Holocaust was and that its nefarious intent was to completely remove an entire group of humans. There is nothing in this law that remotely intends to kill people. In fact, this law saves lives. The stupidity here rises to the level of flat earthers and their idiotic theories. My child is grown but if she were still in school and there were kids there that were not vaccinated, I would crusade to have those children removed. I know it's not the children's fault they were born to morons. Unfortunately though, they were born to morons.

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Donald Holder 5 years ago (edited)

More liberal hypocrisy. It ok to not vaccinate your child in your eyes, but it perfectly okay to jeopardize the health of others children because of your uneducated biases about healthcare. And I say that as a Registered Nurse. If you don't want to vaccinate, then home school or start your own school for unvaccinated children. Don't put your imaginary burdens on innocent kids.

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Chris Sprucefield 5 years ago

Unfortunately, there is no vaccine for stupidity... vaccines are not just about you, but you and everyone else around you. Not all people around you or your kid wants to contract a perfectly preventable disease that you or the kid would would be spreading...

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Dorothy Parker 5 years ago

These people worship fools and liars, that's their religion. A woman who posed for a shoe ad seated on a toilet and a scientist who knowingly falsified his statistics.

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Andrea Careless 5 years ago

An anti-vaxxer proudly introduced her cute little daughter to me. “Healthy as a horse,” she crowed. All I could think of was my uncle when he was 6, who was also as healthy as a horse. Until he got polio.

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Bored Protagonist 5 years ago

Why do they need to be educated? They'll be dead from a preventable disease soon enough.

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Corey Schauer 5 years ago

They should make a new law that any parent who does not vaccinate their kids willingly is to be charged with endangering the welfare of a child and we'll have the children taken away immediately if they fight back there to be executed immediately with a gun then maybe they can go talk to God and ask him what the right decision would have been

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

What I find more than mildly humorous is that NY State also has a law that states all children under 16 *must* go to school,or it *is* child abuse, and can be prosecuted as such. They'd better get their kids vaccinated fast...

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Viktor Feurer 5 years ago

Best law ever made. Anti-waxxers are simply idiots.

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Daniel 5 years ago

Stop being stupid and get your kids vaccinated now.

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Krysta Pandoo 5 years ago

Sound like a great idea. Now take the children away from these lunatics and vaccinate them so they can go to school like normal, non-diseasemongering children.

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Diamante J. Cameron 5 years ago

I have an immune disease and personality am so happy that this is a law. Now I know everyone will hate me. But when people are not vaccinated serves a extreme risk to me.

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Maia Jacobs 5 years ago

JUST VACCINATE THE CHILDREN

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Maia Jacobs 5 years ago

JUST F*****G VACCINATE YOUR CHILDREN

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Carrie Roettger 5 years ago

Aww those poor wittle anti-vax parents who who are so willfully ignorant. Play stupid games win stupid.prizes.

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Bella Bee 5 years ago

As someone who has a very compromised immune system due to years of chemo and immunosuppressants, I welcome the decision to ban unvaccinated kids from school until they’re vaccinated. It is so reckless and irresponsible to put not only your child’s health (and possibly life) at risk, but to put other children and adults like me at risk too. Every cold, every stomach bug - I get it. If my 3 year old niece is sick, I get ill too. Vaccinate your bloody children.

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Evripidou Maria 5 years ago

good job to the new york schools.

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Melody Reid 5 years ago

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Debbie 5 years ago

SERIOUSLY!!!!! I can't decide if it is more insulting, ridiculous, outrageous or "simply" an obvious case of being uneducated to draw comparisons to racism and the 2nd world war.

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Susan Riley 5 years ago

I'm 100% on the side of the NYC Schools. We have the same policy where I live. Maybe the anti-vaxer parents can start their own school - call it something like "Exceptional School for the Sick and Stupid."

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Retro Dan™ 5 years ago

Gee I'm sorry that your stupid decision to leave your kid open as a feeding ground for every virus, bacteria, mold, fungus, and disease that we've conquered isn't being passively accepted. Why don't you just bury your children now and save us all the time and trouble for when they die of polio or some other easily preventable illness?

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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago

Anti-vaxxers are dangerous to other people's health. " More than 800,000 children are to be targeted for vaccination in the Democratic Republic of Congo, after a measles outbreak killed more than 3,500 people this year. ... It has killed more Congolese people this year than Ebola." Ideas spread, even when they are worse than bad. Well done N.Y.!

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

There is no vaccine or treatment for Ebola. However, there is one for measles! You can be sure they'd sue the schools, their doctors and the state if one of their un-vaccinated little darlings had serious consequences from a preventable disease.

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lakitha tolbert 5 years ago

Every single one of their arguments is just wrong, They are wrong. These diseases had all but disappeared before this....whatever this is...

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

Call it what it is. Stupidity.

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Micah Pettit 5 years ago

One of the few things New York has done that I actually agree with. I'm shocked they actually enacted this, to be honest.

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Steve Cruz 5 years ago

REAL CRIME is being committed by these parents and the victims are their children. In the name of RELIGIOUS SUPERSTITION adults want to test "god" -- but it seems like these types never want to put their own lives at risk. They're happy to sacrifice their children. Most of the parents have been vaccinated and lived plague-free lives. What stupid selfish creeps they are.

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John Wilcox 5 years ago

Then the parents should homeschool no need to put other kids in danger because you're stupid

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Jasmine VALADIAN 5 years ago

They won't be protesting so much when an 'anti-vax' parent or the school is sued for exposing immunosuppressed children to dangerous preventable life-threatening diseases. What's funnier (not really) but these same parents then take their sick children to the hospital for help...hmmm...and guess what...the children are isolated. So are these parents going to say they are being discriminated against? Can't have it both .ways.

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Kathleen Nelson 5 years ago

Black people cannot change their status- that's why equating Jim Crow laws and these school requirements is so inappropriate! Just vaccinate your kid! Pretty sure God won't mind but there'll be hell to pay if your child infects mine!

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Hans Hodne 5 years ago

It's the right thing to do for New York. The scary thing here is that these people are now responsible for educating these kids without any interference from the school... I'm afraid this will lead to these ideas spreading and make the whole anti-vax/flat earth thing much much worse 😱

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Shruti Naik 5 years ago

They should make a law stating that not vaccinating your children is child abuse and then take their kids away to better homes and put the anti-vaxxers in prisons. I dont't remember where this happens but I've heard of a hospital where when the baby is born and the nurses take it away to clean it up, they also give the vaccines to the baby before they give the baby to the mother and if the parent protests, they're arrested immediately.

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Magpie 5 years ago

tangent: We can (almost ) cure Ebola. Why is this not all over the news ?????https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPyDnLyXuBI&t=6s

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Karen Klinck 5 years ago

Almost. That doesn't comfort those who die.

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Magpie 5 years ago

----What if all these anti vac "evidence" is a plot by Russia or China to make u.s.a sick? ------ That question by a dr. turned around an anti vaccer is about 45 seconds.

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Magpie 5 years ago

Read that on Bored Panda some months ago.

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Max M 5 years ago

Easy, execute those parents for being a danger to public health, vaccinate the kids, give them new parents

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Clinton Yew 5 years ago

Well I'm pretty sure the numbers of parents and kids that are pro-vaxx are totally outnumbered you anti-vaxx people... So... protesting doesn't really helps.

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Benderong 5 years ago

Lol, all the salty anti-vaxxers should stop salting bored panda and go vaccinate their kids

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Clinton Yew 5 years ago (edited)

I remember there is one anti-vaxx bot here that will use the 30+ accounts to downvote pro-vaxx comments, I wonder if that fella is still around though...

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razan youssef 5 years ago

yes thats not the point of freedom of speech. the point is that you are entitled to your opinion no matter how messed up it is and you can say that

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Sara Cohen 5 years ago

Do any of you understand that no vaccine has ever been studied against an inert placebo and instead controls are injected with a completely different vaccine or the aluminum adjuvant or thimerosal itself? That means the studies are highly flawed. Every other drug is studied for at least 6 years with controls being given an inert placebo such as a sugar pill? They say it would be "unethical" to use an inert placebo in vaccine safety trials, and yet it's totally ethical that we the people are their guinea pigs? And vaccines are the only liability free product! Chronic disease and autoimmune disorders have risen at the same rate as our American vaccine schedule, which is the most aggressive vaccine schedule in the world - this is not a coincidence. It's no coincidence that year after year we top the list of sickest industrialized nations. Read the inserts. Read VAERS reporting system. Read the actual studies instead of believing polarized headlines and slogans.

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Red Pill 5 years ago

Vaccines are a perfect catch-22 cause your damned if you get them and your damned if you dont. You either get the diseases and possibly die or you get sterilized from chemicals that untraceable. Both are perfect ways of population control without causing civil unrest due to people being sheeple and believing everything big brother says.

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Joe Benner 5 years ago

I see a ton of vitriol, and damn ignorance on this thread for so many self-proclaimed compassionate people. People who aren't medical professionals, and aren't educated on this s**t, though act like experts on s**t they know nothing about. People who obviously support segregation as long as it's the segregation that they like. Crazy how I read one of the lefties tweet about "a child's right to life" but they would be the same ones to support late term abortions. What about the child's right to life in that instance? Bunch of f****n hypocrites

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Blackbunny38 The Awesome 5 years ago

There are people who can't get vaccines because of compromised immune systems. If everyone else gets vaccinated that doesn't matter because there's no way for the disease to spread to these children. But when people choose not to vaccinate that increases the number of hosts for these diseases, making it easier for them to spread.

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Aunt Messy 5 years ago

You don't ahve to vaccinateyour kids. Just the ones you want to keep....you ignorant cow.

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Aunt Messy 5 years ago

measles takes ten days to two weeks to incubate. That means that an unvaccinated child will be shedding live virus and making people sick for TEN DAYS before they show symptoms. Why don'r you go back to your reddit and whine about how everyone hates you?

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Alia G. 5 years ago

Just copy-pasting my response to another user: Some kids are forced to rely on herd immunity due to allergies to vaccines or other ailments keeping them from being vaccinated, or are on chemo, there's lots of reasons someone can't be vaccinated. When other people use herd immunity as a way to justify not vaccinating it endangers those who actually can't. So yeah, some parent do have to care if other kids aren't vaccinated. Also, it's child endangerment so it's really selfish not to worry.

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Alex Chiaradio 5 years ago

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Aunt Messy 5 years ago

You spout that same line of b******t and lies all over the place. Go away.

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CP 5 years ago

What too many bad things does the MMR shot result in? All the research shows that statement isn't true. Good for Japan, but the science says they are wrong. The US healthcare system is a problem, you are correct about that. However that has nothing to do with all the good that come from vaccines.

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CP 5 years ago

Just can't stay on topic can you?

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Pittsburgh rare 5 years ago

Maybe because IF they're unvaccinated is because of not having access to vaccines and not because their parents are frigging fanatics?

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Hard 2 Guess 5 years ago (edited)

You must be talking about undocumented migrant because documented migrants are required to have list of vaccines done to them for USA visa application, in their country, before they can even go see consulate of USA for a visa. And I am sure given the opportunity to vaccinate their kids. Parents of those undocumented kids will choose to vaccinate in a heartbeat.

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Benderong 5 years ago

Climate change protestors are smart, sensible and are fighting for a good cause. Anti-Vaxxers are selfish, arrogant and stupid people fighting for plague

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CP 5 years ago

One is based in facts (global warming) and the other in fiction (vaccines are bad). You can't use kids as propaganda tools when the subject isn't propaganda. Climate change is not propaganda. Ant-vaxx is propaganda. Get it?

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Alia G. 5 years ago

There's a difference between a 16 yr old and a 6 yr old

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CP 5 years ago

Nominating you for worst comment of the day so far

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Foxxy 5 years ago

That’s just not true. Yes my kids are vaccinated and I don’t stress about them getting vaccine preventable diseases but I do care about the ones that aren’t. Some people CAN’T be vaccinated due to allergies, immune compromised, too young etc. Many people care about a few kids being unvaccinated and that is one of the reasons why many places are bringing in compulsory vaccinations. Vaccinations are a social responsibility to protect the vulnerable, to build herd immunity and eradicate vaccine preventable diseases like small pox was.

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CP 5 years ago

You should learn about vaccines before commenting. It seems as though you don't know how they work.

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Alia G. 5 years ago

Some kids are forced to rely on herd immunity due to allergies to vaccines or other ailments keeping them from being vaccinated, or are on chemo, there's lots of reasons someone can't be vaccinated. When other people use herd immunity as a way to justify not vaccinating it endangers those who actually can't. So yeah, some parent do have to care if other kids aren't vaccinated. Also, it's child endangerment so it's really selfish not to worry.

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