{"id":9715,"date":"2015-05-17T20:23:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T20:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=9715"},"modified":"2015-05-18T06:24:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T06:24:10","slug":"california-makes-the-right-move-on-vaccinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/california-makes-the-right-move-on-vaccinations\/","title":{"rendered":"California Injects Some Sense on Vaccination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/terra-baby-10243.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9721\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/terra-baby-10243.jpg\" alt=\"terra-baby-1024\" width=\"510\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/terra-baby-10243.jpg 510w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/terra-baby-10243-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or at least it&#8217;s getting closer to doing that. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2015\/05\/15\/california-senate-votes-to-end-personal-belief-exemption-for-vaccines\/?utm_content=bufferf7516&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">This<\/a> from <em>Reuters<\/em>\/<em>Religion News Service<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>California parents who do not vaccinate their children would have to home-school them under a bill passed Thursday by the state Senate, the latest move in a battle between public health officials and \u201canti-vaxxers\u201d who fear vaccines are dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, which eliminates the so-called personal beliefs exemption allowing parents to forego vaccinations if opposed to them for any reason, was introduced after a measles outbreak at Disneyland last year that sickened more than 100 people.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Under the bill, which still must be approved by the Assembly, unvaccinated children who do not have a medical exemption would have to study at home or in organized, private home-schooling groups.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Home-schooling has nothing to do with being educated about vaccines of course, but demanding it represents a sufficient enough burden for most parents such that it should definitely help get vaccination numbers up.<\/p>\n<p>Relatedly, the Lifetime Network is doing its part on the vaccine front by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mylifetime.com\/shows\/little-women-terras-little-family\/video\/full-episodes\">showing<\/a> the stars of &#8220;Terra&#8217;s Little Family&#8221; getting their infant, &#8220;Penny,&#8221; vaccinated. (Yes, I watch this program. Judge me not!* ) Mom Terra struggles with the decision because she&#8217;s &#8220;heard&#8221; about the literally ill effects of vaccine. But in the end she does the right thing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to see the MBA-holding female decision-makers at Lifetime &#8211; or Television for Women \u2122 &#8211; doing right by their <a href=\"http:\/\/primemediaproductions.com\/documents\/marketing\/Network%20Demographics.pdf\">downscale<\/a> viewers. Especially because the thrust of the anti-vaccination zeitgeist is coming from the relatively <em>upscale<\/em>. David Hume has more on that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/gnxp\/anti-vaccination-as-a-luxury-good-for-the-wealthy\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=anti-vaccination-as-a-luxury-good-for-the-wealthy\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* I&#8217;m also a fan of other reality TV, like &#8220;Return to Amish.&#8221; This while media attention is far more focused on e.g. Mad Men. <a href=\"http:\/\/dryhyphenolympics.com\/2015\/05\/12\/heres-what-reality-tv-has-to-do-with-being-broke\/\">Here&#8217;s why I prefer the former<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or at least it&#8217;s getting closer to doing that. This from Reuters\/Religion News Service: California parents who do not vaccinate their children would have to home-school them under a bill passed Thursday by the state Senate, the latest move in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/california-makes-the-right-move-on-vaccinations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1455,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1036,13],"tags":[328,1116],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9715"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9739,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9715\/revisions\/9739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}