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Re:One More Time, with Big Data: Measles Vaccine Doesn’t Cau... by existentialhalt on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @11:14PM (#19316354)
"For all of the regularly scheduled vaccines the answer is the risks of not vaccinating greatly outweigh those of receiving it, unless you have an allergy to something in that particular vaccine."

This is only true for healthy people who have had no reactions to vaccines, nor have their family members.

There are people who have life-long debilitating reactions. What is being proposed is to make it impossible to opt-out if you have a personal or family history with negative reactions to vaccines. Medical exemptions are impossible to get except for the very wealthy who can afford the appropriate testing to prove it's an issue.

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Re:One More Time, with Big Data: Measles Vaccine Doesn’t Cau... by driverdan on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @12:19PM (#19320663)
> This is only true for healthy people who have had no reactions to vaccines, nor have their family members.

That's what I said. Allergy, reaction, same thing.

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Re:One More Time, with Big Data: Measles Vaccine Doesn’t Cau... by berbec on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @01:30AM (#19316780)
No, what is being proposed is removing facebook-made-me-a-doctor exemptions. No one is going to make an immunocopromised child take a vaccine. This is complete FUD. Any doctor who can legitimately diagnose a reason for it can fill out the medical exemption form.
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