The bill to restrict personal belief vaccine exemptions for school entry, HB 1638, will receive its first committee hearing Feb. 13 in Olympia. The anti-vaccine circus, fronted by the so-called “Informed Choice Washington,” has invited high-profile demonstrators from out-of-state along with imports from Vancouver, British Columbia, and as far afield as Australia.
Children will be paraded to leverage sympathy for the “vaccine-injured.” Medical tragedies occur with or without vaccines. Those who point out that vaccines cannot cause that type of disability will be abused as sub-humans denying a parent’s suffering.
Kitchen-table warriors armed with Google “research” push misinformation onto young, panicky moms wanting to do the best for their babies. Raising unsubstantiated fears about vaccines while reassuring that the corresponding diseases are benign is the worst form of scare-mongering.
Vaccines are the safest and most effective tools that exist in health care. There are important legal and policy issues to be discussed regarding the limits of school mandates and the liability of those who ignore them. Instead, we see the uninformed screech falsehoods at the quiet majority.
Let your legislators know that you support vaccine programs and the elimination of as many non-medical exemptions as possible.
