Yes, the homeschooling argument below is true. Many people who are anti-vaxxers chose to homeschool for that reason. You cannot send your kid to school if they haven’t been vaccinated, so you can get around this by not sending them to school. The regulations for homeschooling are very lenient and I’ve seen kids who…

Reiss says that the emergency provisions under state law aren’t subject to the same religious exemptions.

I had chicken pox twice (extremely rare) and the second time was at 16. It was horrible! I was out of school for two weeks and still have scars from it. I remember my Grandma coming to visit me, just looking terrified and uttering “Ay Dios mio.”

Religious or cultural the only exemption should be a true medical one. Not a fear a boogey man (causes autism) that’s been proven false. What people feel doesn’t matter in the face of science.

Me too.  My mom brought home measles from school when she was 8.  Three days later her 2 year old sister was dead from measles based encephalitis.   My mom was there after raised as an only child,  who held her breath all night to see what it felt like to die.   The guilt lives on with her 62 years later. 

Slightly different story but I had chicken pox when I was 27 and it was far and away the absolute sickest I have ever been in my life and I’m now 62 and I’ve had to 2 surgeries.

I work at (premier public health agency in the US). There were anti-vax dipshits protesting at our front gate a couple weeks ago...to make a point at all us terminal-degree-types who every day try to mitigate the damage they do? I guess? I can’t help but look at the comments on our social media posts about vaccination…

Most of these parents are old enough to have relatives that remember what life was like before antibiotics or what the polio epidemic was like. Penicillin wasn’t widely available until the 40s.

check with your doctor soon. immunity begins to develop at about 2 weeks post vax. but definitely, definitely look into it, measles is SOOO contagious.

Check with your doctor, but I’d say yes.

So. Should I be getting a measles vaccination? I never had the measles and was never vaccinated because I’m an Old. I’ll be in NY and Williamsburg in three weeks and kind of  accident prone-ish. 

I’m in my 30s and know someone with post polio syndrome. It’s pretty fucking awful. No kids or partner or family. His symptoms started again in his early 40s and he needed to move into assisted living in his 60s. He isn’t a terribly happy person these days, as you might imagine. Fuck anti-vaxxers. And fuck them on…

I support this. I’m so sick of people telling me to be tolerant of anti vaxxers because “they’re just trying to do what’s best for their children.” Yeah, and failing miserably by being willfully ignorant? Sorry I don’t care about your *feelings* or “rights as a parent” if you cause public health crises

A rabbi I follow on twitter has been shouting as much:

How about vaccines are so successful that people stopped fearing the disease and started fearing the vaccinations? The average American doesn’t know any children with polio but does know a few children on the autism spectrum. All it took was one loud crackpot (thanks, Dr. Wakefield) to make a “link” between vaccines…

Your ghost stories end where my immune system begins.

Once again for the people in the back : IF YOUR RELIGION HARMS CHILDREN YOUR RELIGION IS WRONG!

I say we bring back leper colonies and forcibly allow anti-vaxxers to relocate. When children become of age, they can leave the colony to get vaccines and join the real world. I’m sure there’s a lovely piece of Alaskan wilderness in need of some nut jobs.

MMR is a live vaccine, so it’s not safe for children until they’re a year old.

And I thought the 41 cases in Oakland County, MI was bad.