Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and fellow
anti-vaxxers call on judge to delay law
barring unvaccinated kids from school
New York Daily News,
by
Denis Slattery
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
8/15/2019 6:58:51 AM
ALBANY — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his fellow anti-vaxxers flooded an Albany courtroom Wednesday as they implored a judge to overturn a state law barring kids who haven’t been vaccinated from attending school.
Hundreds of white-clad supporters later descended on the Capitol to leave photos of their children outside Gov. Cuomo’s office in an attempt to draw the governor’s attention to thousands who will be affected.
Rita Palma, the founder of a group called My Kids, My Choice, said new law, which ended an exception for kids whose parents objected to vaccines on religious grounds, will keep 26,000 children out of school and daycare.
“I want him to hear us out,”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
philsner 8/15/2019 7:38:24 AM (No. 152706)
School kids are required to have vaccinations that are proven to work. If you don't agree with that, fine. Don't bring your unvaccinated kids to school.
It is a disturbing trend in this country for a tiny minority to force its silly ideas on the majority.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/15/2019 7:40:05 AM (No. 152708)
I don’t object to vaccinations and my daughter received them all as a child. I just had a pneumonia vaccination myself. But what I do object to is the government forcing parents to vaccinate their children, just like I object to the government forcing any citizen to do anything. This is just one more step down the slippery slope of government becoming the parents. There is already a movement on the far left to obliterate parental rights.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Daisymay 8/15/2019 7:45:44 AM (No. 152713)
I had to have a vaccination when I started school back in 1946. Nothing has changed. It has been required all these years. Even during the Polio epidemic in the 50's, school children were required to get the Shot, which was given in my school, or they were out until they got it by a doctor. All of a sudden, these Rich Parents think they are doctors. Well, they can do what they want with their children, but they can not put other parent's children at risk. So get your children vaccinated, or keep them home. THAT's your choice!
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The answer is easy! Don't want your kids vaxxed, keep them at home, and home school the little brats...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 8/15/2019 7:56:05 AM (No. 152722)
My grandparents lost their first child at the age of 5 to diphtheria. They didn’t have the dpt vaccine back then. That disease killed a lot of kids before they developed the vaccine. The anti-vaxxers are fools.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
PostAway 8/15/2019 7:57:28 AM (No. 152724)
If a child isn’t vaccinated they are at a far greater risk of suffering a communicable disease in a school setting than vaccinated children. Once a disease is contracted it can be passed on to random unvaccinated individuals in the public including babies. If parents wish to educate their children but not vaccinate them they can homeschool using public school resources. Robert Kennedy is a reprehensible character, a professional know-it all and show-off but that does not negate the fact that, for many reasons including religious, a fairly sizable group of tax paying parents are troubled by the vaccination requirement and ought to have their wishes respected. They must also understand that their choices combined with their demand to access to public schools daily puts public health officials in the difficult position of having to deny their children access in order to do the job of keeping the public as safe as possible using the most current medical information. In other words, parents need to shoulder the burden of their own choices.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
frew 8/15/2019 8:30:30 AM (No. 152753)
Science deniers.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 8/15/2019 8:34:04 AM (No. 152757)
What do you care, rich boy? Any kid you have would go to some tony private school anyway. You can be sure no smallpox carrying, polio probable, any measles, mumps or rubella infected would wind up sitting and spitting next to YOUR little rich kid.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Cindiana 8/15/2019 8:35:22 AM (No. 152759)
Is his way of speaking an affectation?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/15/2019 8:56:48 AM (No. 152780)
Let's have junior contract ebola and then let's see how smug he is about diseased and unvaccinated kids.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/15/2019 9:26:54 AM (No. 152811)
We are talking about serious diseases, the presence of which has increased due to unchecked immigration. Useless flu shots should be a choice but not the really bad stuff. If you feel that strongly about it, home school or use private schools that do not enforce these rules or you can move out of states like New York as thousands are doing every day. Kids should advertise their un-innoculated status by bright red shirts or orange dunce caps. Kids who do not have shots are not the problem until they contract something from others but by then it's too late.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
HotRod 8/15/2019 9:37:20 AM (No. 152822)
Another reason to be a responsible parent. Get kids out of government schools! An excellent private school education will take some sacrifice on the part of parents, but it is money well spent. There is a lot of personal satisfaction in becoming the proud parent of a well educated and well adjusted child.
Face it: Government schools do not put the interests or well-being of students first. The left puts politics first, with their own self-interest along with it. Teachers unions are self-serving, and do not work for better education or student development. Government schools allow parents to be disinterested parties to their child's education. Basically, government schools are politically-correct day care centers, where children are conditioned to accept government authority over their lives.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
LadyHen 8/15/2019 9:50:37 AM (No. 152836)
I have been told that measles is so easily transmissible the repercussions of a known case in a public facility can be very time consuming and costly to remedy. My dd's doctor said if a case of measles walked in their door, they would have to shut down for days for a deep sanitizing and authorities would have to be involved to protect the public. Talk about a mess for any business or town.
Now, think about that in a school setting. The cost, the man hours wasted that tax payers would be forced to shoulder all while children are unable to attend school. And while most kids come through measles fine, some die or are permanently disabled. Yes, we as tax payers and public citizens have the right to make these demands. Don't like it, send your kids elsewhere.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
jacksin5 8/15/2019 10:47:09 AM (No. 152892)
And who will be blamed when an epidemic breaks out? Since the days of Typhoid Mary, Public Health officials have been able to enact regulations to protect citizens from disease outbreaks. You don't like it? You have the option of self-quarantining your children, but remember, everytime they go out in public, they are in danger of being exposed to disease carrying illegals that are slipping across the border every day.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Lucky5 8/15/2019 11:22:15 AM (No. 152933)
I forgot what detective show I was watching, but they were blaming "right wing" fanatics for the anti vaxxing movement and portraying them as dumb hicks of course. Everyone I know who is against it is liberal.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
couchguy 8/15/2019 1:35:39 PM (No. 153090)
There are even "conservatives" that want to bring back polio and smallpox.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Smart11344 8/15/2019 2:04:58 PM (No. 153136)
Has there ever been a Kennedy with a functiong brain? We all know their genitalia work at 110%.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 8/15/2019 6:38:55 PM (No. 153381)
Very bad idea. Keep the disease carriers out.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Faithfully 8/17/2019 3:05:13 PM (No. 154979)
#6 The prayers of many grandparents like yours and mine were answered with the advent of the diphtheria vaccine. Now these characters want to go back to those sad times.
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For years, children were required across the country to produce inoculation records to be allowed in school. This isn't new.