Activist Post – by Heather Callaghan
Due to increased mandatory vaccination legislation, parents are being politely threatened by the corporate-sponsored press, the CDC and the school systems that they had better get jabs for their children. In many cases, such as in California, it’s the law. In cases where it’s not completely mandatory, veiled threats and social pressure to submit have reached an ominous fever-pitch.
While the media can offer ostensible friendliness in passive aggressive threats to “get with the vaccine program” as it can rest on the buttress of law, it has not yet dispensed with extraordinary hysteria, authoritarian peer pressure and even targeting children in public shaming rituals.
This is because it’s “Back to School” rush hour, one of the biggest spending seasons. In the rush to spend one’s literal last pennies on supplies, clothes and lunches, the government doesn’t want you to forget to sacrifice and scrape that last bit for required injections.
One headline goes like this: Parents told to check vaccine status ahead of school. It was a “friendly reminder” to Oregon parents that their non-medical exemptions are null, that booster shots are required for older students and that preschool caretakers are to get jabs or close down.
A recent CNN headline “As kids go back to school, states look to encourage vaccinations,” chides parents who might be naughty:
When kids start school this fall, it’s a sure bet that some won’t have had their recommended vaccines because their parents have claimed exemptions from school requirements for medical, religious or philosophical reasons. Following the much publicized outbreak of measles that started in Disneyland in California in December, these exemptions have drawn increased scrutiny. [emphasis added]
That’s right, all of these convenient moves to corral people into compulsory toxic injections hinge on the original hysteria produced by “Disneyland measles.” What the media never reports is that California had a 97.46% student vaccination rate during that time. Pharma manufacturers cry that they need 95% rate to achieve so-called “herd immunity.” And did you know that Idaho has the highest proportion of kindergartners with exemptions, at only 6.5 percent?
The hysteria also serves as a convenient deflection from other inconvenient truths such as the fact that so many more people have died from the MMR vaccine (and the previous single-vial measles vaccine) than the measles disease in over a decade. Have the pharmaceutical manufacturers ever been held accountable – no, we account for it in tax dollars under a $3 billion dollar bail-out, so far.
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Back to Disneyland measles which followed Ebola-gate. I see that it has further victimized children. While these laws pass due to cries of “the children! the children!” – the Senators spearheading the crusade obviously do not show concern for children when they receive funds from Big Pharma. Big Pharma sits on bail-outs, industry-paid “scientists,” control of media (including social media) and mandatory legislation. Emotional trolling has led some parents to succumb to disgraceful social interactions like asking a parent if her kid has “had her shots” before they are allowed to come over and play.
One report provides “tools” for parents to help them “remember” to get all the pharma recommended shots:
Secretary Galvin has a new tool on his website that shows parents the recommended vaccines for their children by age – from birth to eighteen years old.
At first the report conveyed friendly help to new parents, but then…:
As students prepare to head back into the classroom, some parents believe they shouldn’t be required by law to vaccinate their kids. [emphasis added]
Additionally, the pressure is high to “hunt” unvaccinated children in public shaming statistics that compel parents to do the dirty work of peer-pressure. For instance, if states post local vaccination rates at the recent behest of the CDC, and if parents act accordingly by the statistics, it will increase pressure to vaccinate on area doctors and school systems desperate for attendance funds.
Associated Press reports [emphasis added]:
How many kids are vaccinated at your child’s school? Federal health officials think you should be able to easily find out.
CDC’s Dr. Anne Schuchat made the push more public during a press conference Thursday.
“It’s important to recognize when vulnerabilities exist in communities,” said Schuchat, who oversees the agency’s vaccination work.
Parents could use the information to weigh their child’s risk of vaccine-preventable illnesses at specific schools or school districts, Schuchat said. And it could help health officials identify pockets of unvaccinated children, she said.
Can these numbers be trusted? What happens when the rate of vaccination reaches 100% and the only thing left to show for it is more disease and sickness? Who or what will be blamed then? Again, there is no recourse.
One would think stigmas, discrimination, scarlet letters and other forms of public shaming would be counter-intuitive in preventing disease and helping children grow into healthy, confident adults. To see the results of previous experiments, just glance back at history. It’s never been about “the children.” They say that truth is the first casualty of all types of wars – are children the second? If deception is the first weapon of forceful agendas, are shame and hysteria the second? They are the most negative, yet effective forms of marketing ever concocted.
Heather Callaghan is a natural health blogger and food freedom activist. You can see her work at NaturalBlaze.com and ActivistPost.com. Like at Facebook.
In my state, religious exemptions are still legal for children in public schools and college students living in dormitories.
However, our local school system has put out a carefully worded, misleading statement implying that there are no exemptions whatsoever.
“There are new immunization requirements for students entering grade 7. All seventh graders must have one tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis vaccination and one meningococcal vaccination before the start of the school year. Parents must provide the school with a verification document from a health care provider.”
See all those “musts?” and the word “requirement?”
Another statement reads: “students not in compliance with vaccination requirements will be excluded from attending school until they provide documentation of the required immunizations.” And “Parents should contact their doctor to make sure their child is properly immunized.”
Again, note the carefully-chosen word “compliance.” And the lack of mention of the word “law” or “legal.”
There is no mention of the existing religious exemption allowed by law. If a person did not know the law, then they would be misled into thinking their children would not be allowed to attend public school or live in a public college dormitory without receiving “required” vaccines.
In this state, all that a person needs to do to obtain a waiver is to sign a form stating that they have a “sincerely held religious belief” that does not allow them to be vaccinated. The person does not need to state what that belief is, defend it in any way, nor be a member of any particular church or religion. However, the person must be prepared to stand their ground against school officials who will try to persuade them that they are mistaken.
This info is of course for those folks who still have children in public schools or living in college dormitories. I’m so glad this no longer applies to me, but things are getting rough out there now for parents of young children.