[FLPERMACULTURE] Fwd: New York Trying to Make ALL Vaccines Mandatory!

[Bethany Schroeder]

I second Joe's note of caution.

I've been involved with public health for many years and have seen the 
increased number of people, especially kids, with preventable infectious 
diseases due to a lack of immunization. Some of you may be aware that we 
in Tompkins County recently had a serious outbreak of pertussis, which 
even infected unimmunized adults. Many area adults were sick for months 
with the infections.

Garrett's book constitutes a significant contribution to our 
understanding of healthcare history and should be read by anyone 
interested in what has happened to the former safety net of public 
health in this country.

Bethany




Joseph Wetmore wrote:
> Hi
> 
> We live in a time when infectious diseases are
> relatively under control, and have been for most of
> the population's lives.  This has caused people to be
> more afraid of the Vaccines than the diseases then
> prevent. This is unfortunate. Tuberculosis,
> meningitis, pertussis, poliomyelitis, diphtheria,
> measles, etc,  are very real and have not gone away. 
> If you allow a significant part of our population to
> go immunized, you will see their widespread return. 
> It will not be pretty.
> 
> I suggest that people read:
> 
> Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public
> Health by Laurie Garrett
> 
> Garrett does a magnificent job of describing the
> dismantling of our public heath system (a different
> body from our healthcare system) and the ramifications
> of a lack of such a system.
> 
> Individual choice does not include choosing to be the
> next Typhoid Mary. 
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> --- Karryn Olson-Ramanujan
> <kolson at ecovillage.ithaca.ny.us> wrote:
> 
>>
>>>
>>> From: "Leah" <raeneday7 at yahoo.com>
>>> Date: May 29, 2008 11:18:40 AM EDT
>>> To: funschooling at yahoogroups.com
>>> Subject: [funschooling] New York Trying to Make
>> ALL Vaccines  
>>> Mandatory!
>>> Reply-To: funschooling at yahoogroups.com
>>>
>>>
>>> Call Today to Stop Worst Vaccine Bill Ever in New
>> York Take Action!
>>> ALL FEDERAL SHOTS WILL BECOME MANDATORY
>>>
>>> Act now to stop the worst vaccine law ever
>> proposed in New York  
>>> since the
>>> invention of the mandatory schedule. Assembly Bill
>> 10942 would make  
>>> all
>>> vaccines recommended by the CDC mandatory for all
>> children to attend
>>> school
>>> and, and for the first time vaccines would become
>> mandatory for
>>> infants and
>>> toddlers.
>>>
>>> The bill was introduced in Rules Committee at the
>> request of Richard
>>> Daines,
>>> the Commissioner of the New York State Department
>> of Health. The Rules
>>> Committee in the personal committee of the
>> Assembly Speaker Sheldon  
>>> Silver
>>> (D-Manhattan) .
>>>
>>> A-CHAMP is calling for rejection of this bill and
>> is demanding the
>>> passage of
>>> A5468/S3031, a bill that would give individuals a
>> right to a  
>>> philosophical
>>> exemption from vaccine mandates. This is no time
>> to transfer vaccine
>>> decisions
>>> away from individuals and elected officials
>> answerable to the voters  
>>> and
>>> give
>>> it to obscure bureaucrats with financial ties to
>> the vaccine industry.
>>> Here are a few features of the proposed bill:
>>>
>>> · Our elected New York representatives would no
>> longer determine the
>>> mandatory schedule of vaccines to attend school;
>> decisions made by the
>>> federal
>>> Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices would
>> automatically  
>>> become
>>> mandatory.
>>>
>>> · All children, infants and toddlers included, in
>> New York would be
>>> required to get all vaccines recommended by the
>> ACIP according to  
>>> the ACIP
>>> schedule
>>>
>>> · All children in New York up to age 18 would be
>> required to get  
>>> annual
>>> flu shots.
>>>
>>> · All girls in New York would be required to get a
>> human papilloma  
>>> virus
>>> shot.
>>>
>>> · All junior high school children and college
>> students would be  
>>> required
>>> to get meningococcal shots.
>>>
>>> · Doctors would be required to issue certificates
>> for every shot given
>>> and parents would be required to maintain the
>> records and provide  
>>> them to
>>> school and other authorities.
>>>
>>> · The rules committee claims that the new laws
>> would have no fiscal  
>>> impact
>>> on the state despite the necessity of the state to
>> spend tens of
>>> millions on
>>> purchasing new vaccines, a vast increase in
>> mandatory record keeping  
>>> and
>>> enforcement for schools, and a huge increase that
>> could be expected  
>>> in the
>>> number of cases of neurological damage, Guillian
>> Barré syndrome and  
>>> other
>>> vaccine-caused injuries.
>>>
>>> We only have a few weeks to defeat this bill. Let
>> your  
>>> Assemblymember and
>>> State Senator know immediately that a vote for
>> this bill guarantees
>>> that you
>>> will do everything you can to get them un-elected.
>> In addition to
>>> emailing and
>>> calling your local representatives, please call
>> Speaker Sheldon Silver
>>> and let
>>> his staff know, politely, that this is a
>> disastrous idea. While you  
>>> are
>>> at it
>>> please call Governor David Paterson and let his
>> staff know,  
>>> politely, that
>>> this is a horrible law.
>>>
>>> Governor David Paterson (518) 474-8390
>>>
>>> Speaker Sheldon Silver (518) 455-3791
>>>
>>>
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