Excerpts from a newspaper article, today
Vaccine opt-outs for kids bill heads to Senate
By Ana Goñi-Lessan, News Service of Florida
A bill that would expand vaccine exemptions for public K-12 schools is headed to the Senate floor.
The bill (SB 1756) would create a new “conscience” category for parents to opt their children out of immunizations typically required for students to attend public K-12 schools.
It passed through the Senate Rules Committee on Tuesday despite opposition from two Republicans. Sen. Clay Yarborough, R-Jacksonville, the bill’s sponsor, said he wants to give more opportunities for non-religious individuals to object to vaccinations and have the opportunity to exempt their children as well.
“The legislation is about the values we hold in high regard,” Yarborough said. “Fundamentally, it’s about parents being able to make the best decisions for their children.”
Visualize your friends and neighbors, rather than a doctor, prescribing medicine for your sick child. Who would you trust?
The next time your child is sick, be sure to treat them at home rather than taking them to a hospital for professional medical care. That essentially is what Republican Robert F. Kennedy is suggesting.
The bill has been a flashpoint between parents’ rights advocates and health care practitioners, who warn that the expansion of vaccine exemptions will lead to widespread illness from preventable diseases.
Translation: If your neighbor’s kids don’t get vaccinated, they and your children will have a greater possibility of becoming sick and dying.
It’s also caused a rift among Senate Republicans. Sen. Gayle Harrell, R-Stuart, said she would not vote for the bill, especially as the state is currently battling a measles outbreak.
Why is Florida in the midst of a measles outbreak? And do you think measles is a benign disease? It isn’t.
Florida has the third-most measles cases in the country with more than 100 cases. Sen, Colleen Burton, R-Lakeland, also voted no, arguing the bill doesn’t respect the choices of all parents, including those who want to send their children to a school that requires vaccines.
Burton filed an amendment that would have allowed private schools to implement their own vaccine requirements and refuse admission to students based on their vaccination status but it was voted down.
The bill also requires health care practitioners who administer vaccines to offer parents an alternative vaccine schedule and provide the most recently issued Vaccine Information Statement published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for each vaccine administered.
And don’t worry, parents, that Vaccine Information Statement has been developed by the renowned medical “expert,” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“In the wake of Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), he’s been on a whirlwind media tour attempting to convince the public that he’s up for the job.
Per “Protect Our Care: Kennedy’s empty resumé makes it clear that he is utterly unqualified to run HHS. He has no medical training or expertise, no legitimate background in health care or public health and he lacks any notable organizational leadership or managerial experience.
Furthermore, he’s managed fewer people than the average Walmart customer service manager.
As a man who “does not believe that infectious disease is an enormous threat to human health” and holds blatantly racist and antisemitic views on public health, RFK Jr. has absolutely no place in the halls of power – let alone at the helm of the country’s largest civilian agency employing over 80,000 employees and regulating a sector accounting for nearly a fifth of the national economy.”
A parent would also have to sign a document acknowledging receipt of the
information.
As for parents who choose not to vaccinate, the downloadable exemption form would include materials “relating to the role of immunizations in communicable disease prevention,” and the webpage will link to the CDC’s vaccine information statement.
Yarborough assured senators that the information provided to families, regardless of vaccination choice, would be the same.
Another provision of the bill allows pharmacists to provide ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug often prescribed for animals, over-the-counter for adults without a prescription.
Proven safe vaccinations, no. Nothing proven and not safe ivermectin, yes. It boggles the mind.
Pharmacists would be given immunity from liability for any ill effects caused by ivermectin under the bill.
It’s OK in Florida to offer a useless drug when a proven drug could prevent your child’s death.
Sen. Lori Berman, D-Boynton Beach, questioned why the ivermectin was included in the bill. “There is no reason we in the state of Florida should be treating it any differently than the federal government treats it
now,” said Berman.
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