Yeah. Even if filing the exemption is non-trivial (like what the OP describes for Ontario), if you feel strongly about not vaccinating, you're going to get that done. And especially since it allows for *philosophical* exemptions, which are hard to prove someone is/is not telling the truth about...

And smoking is a highly-visible activity, easily avoided by those who wish to do so. Typhoid Timmy and the Measelkidz blend in with everyone else.

Except for the fact that smokers are making personal decisions. These parents are making decisions that can be dangerous for their children and other children who cannot receive vaccines.

I suspect the reason you can't find a news article about it is because it didn't happen.

That's not true. You can look at the CDC website to see the schedule as far back as 1983. For measles, for example, the first MMR shot was recommended to be at 15 mos. in 1983. Now its given between 12 and 15. DTaP was at 2, 4, and 6 months in 1983, as it is now.

Um, you're in the pediatrician's office already. Vaccinations take about 30 second. A minute if you have to soothe your crying kid.

...and your clinical information is where? Anecdotal evidence =/= facts.

please do not compare smoking for vaccines.

People of both sexes. My wife couldn't and still can't cook for beans. I made the deal years ago to handle all kitchen related tasks if she did JUST the laundry. I'm OK with wrinkly clothes and eating well vs. the alternative.

Why else do idiots do anything? Because they're idiots.

I'd much rather talk about something that actually matters.

I have no idea what a delayed schedule looks like. I delay things all the time. I was a month late on my last teeth cleaning. Are these busy people or people who genuinely don't want vaccinated?

My partner is a beer drinker. And I brew my own. I do requests.

It can go both ways.

Sounds like you bagged yourself a bona fide idiot

Nah, sorry, sheet orientation still confuses the hell out of me (a female). I could easily get stuck for 5 minutes (maybe 10) out of increasing frustration. I'll admit 15 mins is a lot, but heck i wouldn't put it past my dyslexic self.

I feel like it's pretty clear from the description of the "class" that this doesn't teach serious life skills. I mean, the cooking part and the cleaning part hardly last over an hour. It seems like its a gimmick to me.

A surprising number of people don't know how to do basic housework. Men and women.

I work in fast food and in my journeys wind up helping out with lots of training and new staff orientation, and let me tell you, some of these fucking teenagers don't even know how to mop a floor because they aren't required to do any…

Making beds is the biggest scam of all time perpetuated throughout history. Why make a bed when you're just going to sleep in it again later?

Come from a traditional Italian, Middle Eastern, or Asian background and get back to me. (they're not the only ones, of course, but a good sample.)