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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Mon Nov 19, 2018, 01:32 PM Nov 2018

Anti-vaxxers claim loophole in Texas law allows them to place unvaccinated kids in day care

TRAVIS GETTYS 19 NOV 2018 AT 09:33 ET

Anti-vaxxers in Texas are trying to exploit a loophole in state law to allow conscientious exemptions to vaccines for children in day care.

Texans for Vaccine Choice is calling for families whose unvaccinated children were rejected from private day care facilities to present their stories to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to end those denials, reported the Houston Chronicle.

State law requires vaccines for children at licensed facilities, but the anti-vaxxer organization says child care facilities regulated by the state can forego those requirements if parents have a medical or conscience exemption.

Legal experts dispute their interpretation of the statute, but Texans for Vaccine Choice argues child care facilities cannot lawfully deny the exemptions.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/anti-vaxxers-claim-loophole-texas-law-allows-place-unvaccinated-kids-day-care/
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Anti-vaxxers claim loophole in Texas law allows them to place unvaccinated kids in day care (Original Post) workinclasszero Nov 2018 OP
Talk about a way to shut down a day care center. qwlauren35 Nov 2018 #1
Disgusting and disturbing ck4829 Nov 2018 #2
If I had kids, I'd be getting them the fuck out of there ASAP. Initech Nov 2018 #3
And the first time one of their little darlings is permenantly damaged... haele Nov 2018 #4

qwlauren35

(6,148 posts)
1. Talk about a way to shut down a day care center.
Mon Nov 19, 2018, 02:24 PM
Nov 2018

I would be getting a nanny and teaming up with some like-minded parents real quick.

haele

(12,653 posts)
4. And the first time one of their little darlings is permenantly damaged...
Tue Nov 20, 2018, 12:44 PM
Nov 2018

from another anti-vaxxer idiot's child who came back from an out of state visit to Nanna and Pappa over the holidays with a nasty case of measles or diphtheria - or tuberculosis, watch them sue that daycare out of existence and that sick child's parents into bankruptcy.

Every Anti-vaxxer I've ever met or heard from refuses to take responsibility for their own risky-behavior towards their own kids for their "cause". When you ask them what they would do if their otherwise healthy child is disabled or killed because of a disease where there's a vaccine that child could take available, they either waive their hands and say "that will never happen" or look at you in disbelief and change the subject.

When I was growing up, if there was a vaccine, you got it. Our parents all experienced a relative or playmate that got sick and was crippled for the rest of their lives - or died - and did not want to lose one or more children before the age of 8 to a "common" childhood disease that was "now preventable".

Those infamous "Mumps, Measles, and Chicken Pox" parties anti-vaxxers like to talk about - when anxious parents in areas with little health resources available used to have to try and crudely inoculate their children - still killed children with more compromised immune systems back in the day.

Haele

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