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Ryan Gardner's avatar

They just assume that the CDC guidelines are mandates for going to school.

Total grift. And unethical to say the least.

I was a victim of this when we had our kids. I didn't even think about it.

Lesson learned.

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Momcat's avatar

You can't take your baby home from the hospital if they don't get a help b shot... a baby that has no risk of her b unless her mother is a heavy drug user, a baby that has about a year's worth of her mother's immune system when born. Don't want it, they'll CPS on you.

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Scott's avatar

Might depend on the state. My kid received no shots.

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April Smith's avatar

That is NOT true. You have to sign a consent form. It's an optional shot as are all of them.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

They're buttholes and don't tell you that. Most 28 year olds who put there kids in school don't think about it and just nod

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IceSkater40's avatar

This is state dependent. I think New York is one of the hardest on this one.

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MrsS's avatar

Yeah, you can. I lived in California and none of my kids had the shot.

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Julinthecrown's avatar

We HAD been indoctrinated to think 'well, the government said so'. No mas.

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MrsS's avatar

My new state of Iowa was proposing a bill to alert parents they could say no. I don't think it passed, but I love that people are thinking about it.

And yes, it should be criminal. And even if you think you know what you want to do, the docs push it so hard you start to feel like you're wrong. My oldest two had a few shots. My son got whooping cough at 18 months (only shot which he was actually up to date) and the old school doc told me "Oh yeah, that vaccine doesn't really work." That's when I stopped doing anything.

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Anon E. Mousse's avatar

I don't know if it is all total grift, mostly because I am incapable of locating with precision the date, time, and place on which the government's credibility forever bit the dust.

At one time the CDC's word was good. Reliable. Now it is difficult to trust them to tell you what day of the week it is. You would want to check for yourself.

It may have been, by and large, a combination of lassitude and mission creep.

The polio vaccines were considered miraculous. And others followed on. And then there were more. And more. And for the longest while there did not seem to be any consequences so folks lined up and like good citizens got the shots and the vaccines and the this and the that because who wanted to be the neighborhood Luddite?

And now it is slowly dawning on people that maybe more is less.

Real science is needed and that is quite difficult to conduct when you are working with human health and emergent diseases. But that is no reason to default to treatment that is supposed to be prevention, but is, undeniably, treatment in its own right.

Hoping for the best for an overhaul with all the 'health' thinkers.

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