Just to be clear, the payments that will stop are not normal (needed for survival) welfare payments. They are Childcare rebates and the Family Tax benefit A annual supplement. There are exemptions for strict religious reasons and genuine medical reasons.

Immunisations don’t cost anything in Australia. For people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, there are family health centres which have vaccination clinics ... actually, everyone can access immunisations for free that way - just, if you’ve got money, you’ll usually arrange to have your own doctor / nurse do it and…

I think the problem is oddly enough that the vaccines work TOO well. A lot of people in first world countries have never experienced the horror of disease first hand.

The highest rates of children who have not been vaccinated are in the wealthiest areas of Australia. So in the North and East of Sydney, for example, the current vaccination rate sits at around 80%, which is significantly lower than areas such as the Illawarra. This was also a concern of mine, because, generally, the…

“I don’t see this as any different than the law in Florida to force drug tests on recipients of welfare.”

If they really want/need the money, they can vaccinate. Easy.

“it’ll just make things worse for them”

The author of the Vice article just seems very immature: Numerous relationship partners did not meet your requirements, but you continued the relationship every time? She has vowed to never give another person oral forever. Forever is a long time, girl.

True. And guys do love blowjobs, and there seem to be lots of straight men (well, some) who have figured out it's pretty easy to get a blowjob through Grindr or Craigslist from other dudes and I doubt they're being honest with their spouses about it. I think some women out there would be shocked at what their…

This is why it's so hard to judge humor- I LOVED that joke, it's what sold me on the show.

Maybe this show is "problematic" on purpose, because that's the point. They're not saying stereotypes are true, they are just pointing out that they exist and are ridiculous, so let's make fun of them, and no one is safe. Jesus christ, does everyone just want a multi-racial Friends? Because fuck that.

"____ is the new black" is not a race related expression. It has to do with fashion.

Problematic is for people who got their name right on the verbal part of the SAT and nothing else.

Wow. Every song is HailieHailieHailieHailieHailieHailieHailieHailieHailieHailieHailieHailieHailieHailieHailieHailieHailieHailieHailie...Hailie

Mandated vaccinations are the only way. Exemptions for medical reasons only (i.e., those who MUST rely on herd immunity). Absolutely no personal belief exemptions allowed, period. No messing with the schedule, either. You either vaccinate on schedule, or you home school or pay for private school that allows belief…

I wish that was true, but plenty of reasonable people end up with compromised immune systems because of chemo or auto-immune disorders, or are just babies not old enough to be fully covered, and end up getting sick and even dying despite believing in science and logic and modern medicine. :(((((((((

This article is clearly propaganda for empirical, evidence based ideology, and logical critical thought.

It smells like that because it is the flesh of an animal, preserved in a can.

"SIDS is really caused by vaccines" is a well-worn trope of anti-vaxxers. Research has proven that vaccinated kids are actually LESS likely to die of SIDS than unvaccinated. You are right to distrust anecdotes.

It's funny, building on what you're saying here: I've seen WAAAAY more reactions from antibiotics and food than I have from vaccination. The rate of allergic reaction is actually astoundingly low, compared to pretty much any othe pharmacologic intervention.