Italy bans unvaccinated children from school
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Re: Italy bans unvaccinated children from school
#2Fantastic (note that the article mentions (or at least hints at) medical exemptions, which of course makes sense)! Now ... if only we could make this happen here in the US!
Re: Italy bans unvaccinated children from school
#3About time too. Hopefully the UK and rest of Europe will follow suit.
Re: Italy bans unvaccinated children from school
#4Fantastic (note that the article mentions (or at least hints at) medical exemptions, which of course makes sense)! Now ... if only we could make this happen here in the US!
If that's what you want, don't wait for the institution of a national policy. Talk to your local Board of Education.
Re: Italy bans unvaccinated children from school
#5About time too. Hopefully the UK and rest of Europe will follow suit.
Or, sadly soon, the UK and the EU ?
Re: Italy bans unvaccinated children from school
#6The problem with this law is that there are children (like the child with leukemia mentioned in the article) who are unvaccinated for good medical reasons. Hopefully this law recognizes that and does not penalize children who are unvaccinated for reasons beyond their (or their parents') control.
Re: Italy bans unvaccinated children from school
#7Fantastic (note that the article mentions (or at least hints at) medical exemptions, which of course makes sense)! Now ... if only we could make this happen here in the US!
> if only we could make this happen here in the US
Good point. Also essential to ban adults from various public areas who are not up to date on all their boosters.
Re: Italy bans unvaccinated children from school
#8Fantastic (note that the article mentions (or at least hints at) medical exemptions, which of course makes sense)! Now ... if only we could make this happen here in the US!
> if only we could make this happen here in the US Good point. Also essential to ban adults from various public areas who are not up to date on all their boosters.
First we need to make sure everyone has reasonable access to the medical care that would provide those boosters.
Re: Italy bans unvaccinated children from school
#9The problem with this law is that there are children (like the child with leukemia mentioned in the article) who are unvaccinated for good medical reasons. Hopefully this law recognizes that and does not penalize children who are unvaccinated for reasons beyond their (or their parents') control.
Those people are exempt, the law was drafted for their benefit among other considerations.
The current government would probably like to get some anti-vax votes and makes noises for them, but fortunately it's too scared to blamed if some kind of epidemic happens to actually reverse the policy.
Re: Italy bans unvaccinated children from school
#10As I mentioned the last time this was posted, the article title is clickbait. The actual ban only applies to children under six. That is to say, hardly any of them. Parents of older children will be fined.
"Children up to the age of six years will be excluded from nursery and kindergarten without proof of vaccination under the new rules.
Those aged between six and 16 cannot be banned from attending school, but their parents face fines if they do not complete the mandatory course of immunisations."