Thanks, Anti-Vaxxers: Many Oregon Schools Have Nonmedical Vaccine Exemption Rates Over 50 Percent

[KamaAina]

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/25/thanks-anti-vaxxers-many-oregon-schools-have-nonmedical-vaccine-exemption-rates-over-50-percent/

The state of Oregon allows quite literally anyone — whether they believe that illnesses are a blight directly from Satan to humanity and God will heal those who have enough faith, or that vaccines are part of a globalist world depopulation scheme, or even if they believe that vaccines are directly linked to autism in order to opt-out of the requirement that their precious little snowflakes be properly inoculated before attending school — a frighting number of parents are taking advantage of the opportunity to place their children (and others) at risk.

A whopping thirteen schools in the state have Nonmedical Exemption Rates above 50 percent, with some schools hovering at around 70 percent of students who are not vaccinated adequately.

“The Nonmedical Exemption County number includes children with a nonmedical exemption for all required vaccines, and children with a nonmedical exemption for one or more vaccines who are up-to-date or complete for vaccines for which they do not have exemptions,” according to the Oregon Health Authority....

To make matters worse, KVAL reports that a man in Eugene Oregon who vacationed at Disneyland in California may have exposed others to the virus. As of yet, no additional cases linked to the man’s vacation have been reported. More than 70 cases of measles have been linked to the theme park, so far.

[shenmue]

1. I had mumps once

- many years ago, before the school system made the vaccinations mandatory. Shit was bad.

I would like to slap these people until my hand gets tired.

[mercuryblues]

6. when your

hand gets tired, I'll take over for you.

[uppityperson]

2. Ashland has been classified as a biohazard zone due to their 75% vx rate of school kids.

50-70%? aiieee

[Arugula Latte]

3. Our local preschool in Portland won't allow non-vax kids to attend.

I think it's a great policy.

[on point]

4. Sorry to say, I guess some kids are going to have to die again before the anti vaxxers wake up

Somehow their delusional world has to be pierced. Just sorry innocents will have to pay the price for their selfish nonsense.

[NuclearDem]

5. Even that wouldn't do it.

They'd just point out the nearest vaccinated person in the vicinity and say "See? Vaccines don't work!"

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

13. You should meet my neighbor who nearly killed herself by septic shock

She isn't only an anti-vaxxer, she is also anti-antibiotics.

She refused antibiotics after a miscarriage and came within hours of death before her mother-in-law forced her into an ambulance.

She also put scars all over her body with some sort of ointment that was supposed to leech toxins from her skin. Because... stripmall mystics are so much more reputable than western medicine.

[msanthrope]

14. My cousin nearly died of the same circumstances. Wouldn't take antibiotics.....

and until she passed out and was then incoherent, I couldn't sign her into the hospital.

She didn't speak to me for a few years.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

15. I don't think that is much of a concern here...

The in-laws gave me their phone number and told me to call any time day or night if she was acting weird or the kids seemed to be in distress. They clearly hate one another.

As far as they're concerned their daughter-in-law should be in a mental institution. I wouldn't be surprised if they had the kids vaccinated surreptitiously.

[msanthrope]

16. My cousin's husband was secretly grateful that someone stepped in, and the blowback

to him was minimal.

She's got three kids....and nearly died.

[Hekate]

7. That's really, really bad news. I'm sure DU's resident anti-vaxxers will be along soon...

..to demonstrate that it's good news instead.

Some kids are going to have to be hospitalized. Some kids will have permanent hearing and/or vision damage. Some kids will die.

The rest will just be really miserable for a couple of weeks -- also contagious, before the first spots appear.

Isn't Mother Nature's Wisdom wonderful?

[KamaAina]

8. Only I could post a vax thread and get only 8 posts!

[Hekate]

9. It's still relatively early in the day. Wait till after dinner.

[LWolf]

10. I'll have to ask about this,

since I know that the school office of the Oregon school I teach in, after following a list of procedural steps, sends kids home until parents submit updated vaccination records.

[PasadenaTrudy]

11. Didn't these parents

get vaccinated when they were kids?

[Art_from_Ark]

20. Probably not with the same regimen as today

Before I entered 1st grade, I had already had 14-day measles and chicken pox, so the only vaccinations that I remember having to take were the DPT booster shot and the polio sugar cube, and maybe a smallpox shot. During school, they sometimes administered some kinds of vaccinations in the lunch line, but I don't remember what those were for.

[Bluenorthwest]

12. Actually to get a non religious exemption requires either a doctor's signature attesting that the

parents has been fully informed about vaccines or proof that they have taken a class on the subject. That's the law in Oregon, not sure about the other 18 States with Philisophical Exemptions allowed, I do know that every State but oddly Mississippi and West Virginia allow religious exemptions to school vaccination laws. So 48 States allow religious exemptions. To take a religious exemption, there is no requirement for like, education. Because religion. In 48 States.

Personally, I would take medical exemptions only. The rest is just a bunch of bunk, with or without the God sauce.
I've had lots of vaccinations, I am jealous of those kids today with the vaccines I did not get to benefit from, but showing up just in time to not get polio was a really good deal.
Actual Oregon numbers by county:
http://public.health.oregon.gov/PreventionWellness/VaccinesImmunization/GettingImmunized/Documents/SchImmExmpData.pdf

[fried eggs]

17. Oregon has the highest autism rate in the country

Autism's cause is unknown, and there's no cure. The government is doing very little to get down to the bottom of a disorder that is affecting 1 in every 42 boys.

[KamaAina]

19. Link, please?

I am Autistic, and had heard that the figure was 1 in 86. And that would be deeply ironic, since many anti-vaxxers are afraid the vaccines will cause teh autism.

[bhikkhu]

21. Cause is almost certainly genetic, and there's been no shortage of research

1206 research projects funded between 2008 and 2012. http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/663313.pdf .

Its definitely a complicated problem.

[Warren DeMontague]

18. There is a long list of things to love about Oregon.

The tendency towards anti-science woo-- as evidenced by this, or the fluoridation vote in Portland-- is one of the rare exceptions to the rule.