Forced Vaccination in California
So, our governor signed SB 276 late Friday. Finally. I didn't really like health care being between a doctor and patient. I really was hoping for more involvement by government civil servants who will determine health care decisions without ever seeing the patient. I also like forced medical treatments. Everybody knows there's zero risks associated with "catching up" a child with all their shots before the next school year...even if that means administering 50+ vaccines over a few visits during the summer. We know that there are no risks because that's what we were told by the politicians who receive money from the people who make those products. The bill's author even said that the most dangerous ingredient in a vaccine is water. I believe him because, as he said, people drown sometimes in water. This is good. And, I'm proud to be in the state that sets the precedent for things to come in your state. Everybody knows that Californians are smarter than people in all the other states. So, you're welcome for that, too. As the bill's author said - some doctors were writing medical exemptions and actually (gasp) being paid for their work. This in California has recently been labeled "monetizing" and will no longer be tolerated. Everybody agrees that doctors should work for free. The previous version of the bill actually was going to charge these doctors, retroactively, with perjury for writing such exemptions in the past. And, sure...there are medical boards created solely for the purpose of dealing with unscrupulous doctors. But, in this case the boards weren't acting fast enough to prevent the pandemic that was killing everybody (measles? I forget). So, there you have it. You're welcome!
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Of course local officials are ignoring it.
It is the least of their concern.
What is important is concoct fake news and attack Trump every day.
That is the clarion call of the left.
There was talk in my company about making flu shots mandatory, and nothing was even being considered for any medical exemptions. I would have been faced with a decision: keep my job and risk a life-threatening reaction, or let them fire me in hopes I could sue them and win enough money to keep me going until I found something else.
They decided to make it optional but recommended (with a lot of emphasis on "recommended"), so I didn't have to make such a life-changing decision.
And yeah, it is dangerous. But with 300 million people, every government solution to every problem--real or imagined--MUST be a one-size-fits-all solution. No way could they allow even one alternate solution.
And yeah, if this potentially life-threatening vaccination (which was not required when they hired me) suddenly became a requirement for keeping my job and they fired me for refusing it, I would sue.
But notice I said in my original post "...enough money to keep me going until I found something else." I wouldn't be looking to get rich from that legal action; I'd just want them to cover my lost income until I found a reasonable replacement job.
It has been around for a long time. It used to be that California was the example of States. Politicians ruined it to a state of no return.
For conditions with the potential to be fatal, there is no cure in an advanced stage.
Too late.
The Dumbocraps are depending upon the millennials to be their next best voting base now that they are losing the Black and Latino base in big numbers. They hate Trump and they just can't believe the Blacks and Latinos are not nearly as dumb as they thought they were.
"... Importantly, a vaccine protects not only the individual to whom it is administered, but also the entire population. When the number of immunized individuals within a population reaches a critical threshold, herd immunity [10] is conferred (Figure 2). Herd immunity protects the entire population, even those who are not vaccinated are protected from disease. The percentage of the population that must be immunized to achieve herd immunity varies for individual diseases, with thresholds for common diseases ranging from 75-94% [11]. Herd immunity is crucial to protecting those who are not eligible for vaccines, such as infants, pregnant women, and immunocompromised adults. This means that while vaccines may seem like a personal choice, vaccination protects the entire population—and accordingly, failure to vaccinate could have negative population-level consequences." http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/201...
One can argue that abnormally vulnerable individualse are not the responsibility of normal people engaged in normal living activities, but in advanced civilization immunization against disease is the normal, and the first two kinds, infants and pregnant woman, represent normal stages of living.
As for the article's terminology sounding collectivist, including the technical term "herd immunity", that is common from Harvard and the mainstream intellectuals. We can still understand it when there is something that makes sense.
Virtually all published output from a university, especially an "Ivy League" one will appear collectivist simply due to word choice if nothing else.
Herd Immunity, for example, is one of those terms that appears collectivist on first glance. However it is a term that provides a concise way of stating a much longer description. I prefer the concise "Herd Immunity" to something like: The shared immunity conferred upon a large group of people or animals once a large enough percentage of the group has been effectively immunized against the disease. Two words Vs Twenty Seven words.
Herd immunity is only two words, but evokes a mental image that reflects the longer description. One of the wonderful things about English as a language.
Edit - Forgot to add: There was no collectivist intent specific in that use.
1. is the fact that vaccination is very effective despite very odd arguments against,
2. is the compulsion, or persuasion to the point of bullying on parents.
I am strong on 1. but uneasy about 2.
As said, there are people who should/can not for medical reasons be vaccinated eg infants. Another person can carry the disease to the infant. Who is to blame if the infant gets it? The parents/carers? The unvaccinated carrier? Can this form a court case for damages?
I think the collectivist argument is weak, the argument should focus on inflicting damage (to another's health/property). The act may be unknowing but this is not a get-out.
Herd immunity this not really an attempt to impose politics, it is a statistical term linking the number of infants (etc) catching the disease from an ignorant or malicious unvaccinated proportion of the population.
Against killing infants, against compulsion, what to do with an apparent contradiction? If an infant dies from you or your unvaccinated children passing the disease, you have killed.
The Charge Study at the Mind Institute showed that vaccinated children had blood mercury poisoning. But, I believe it was the water causing the developmental problems they were dealing with. Mercury is good for you. It helps you guess the temperature...
Just food for thought, but I would use the same argument for vaccination that we use to say that you can't drive if you've been consuming alcohol. You're putting other people in danger by actions which are easily avoidable on your part. Drink something else or have someone else drive. Having a doctor prick your kid with a needle is not living for the sake of society, it's merely so that other kids don't die. Not a big thing to ask in my opinion.
Seems a bit high.
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Are there sanctuary cities for undocumented citizens?
So me stay away.
Far, far, far away.
Too hard on me little dino brain to tink widout pronouns anyhoo.
In Kalifornia da elites of smarter peeps seek votes from street zombies smart enough to take dey own vacci-shots, tossing used syrin-needles all over da place.
Too scary for me dino to be exposed to such way higher intelli-uh-intelli-uh-intelligents.
Worse, me dino may be ordered to get medieval black death vacci-uh vaccishots. Scary, scary, scary!
"Leave out ya dead! Leave out ya dead!" Here dey come wid push carts.
To collect corpses among street zombies sleepin' in their feces.
Hey, careful! Don't pick up a zonked out live sleeper, y'all!
Dat what you get from smarter peeps who can only draw public service sidewalk poop maps.
No, tank you. Me dino rather stay dumb.