01-14-2022, 06:49 PM
(01-14-2022, 03:12 PM)ac3r Wrote: Yes, but the exemptions are super easy to get. As that link mentions, students can be exempt for medical, religious or conscience reasons. The latter is what most anti-vax people use (or push onto their children) and to get that exemption, all one needs to do is watch a half hour YouTube video and fill out some forms. So, anyone who doesn't want a vaccine or to vaccinate their children can easily do so, so calling them mandatory is disingenuous when all you need to do is pretend you watched a video and sign some sheets that basically affirm: "yes I know my child could become a plague rat, but I don't care."
Thankfully most parents don't do this, so we rarely ever see outbreaks of diseases in school. I think the last major one in North America was an outbreak of measles in Minnesota a few years ago, primarily driven by the Somali community who live there. And well...Covid, but that's a whole new issue we're trying to fix.
This obviously should be changed. Only medical exemptions (and, in principle but not in practice, religious/cultural exemptions) should be allowed; and the medical exemptions should be monitored closely to ensure that certain doctors don’t become exemption mills.
And yeah, the Covid vaccine should obviously be added to the school vaccine schedule.