Anti-vax parents sue to keep kids in school

grammy1 · Mar 22, 2019

Personally, I think that if a parent wants a religious exemption they should have to produce a notarized letter from their priest/minister/whatever, stating their religion's objection to the vaccine. It would also need to be renewed yearly. My guess is that the number of religious exemptions would drop dramatically, Here in Florida religious and medical are the only exemptions accepted.

Nunya, BSN · Mar 29, 2019

On 3/15/2019 at 12:07 PM, WineRN said:
We have a similar protocol for our immunocompromised kids. And if we ever had a case of a preventable disease outbreak (mumps, measles etc) we would treat the non immunized students the same way (we only have 2 though in our school).

Unpopular opinion here. Even though I do agree with schools that have lower than a 95% immunization rate keeping students without immunizations home to keep up herd immunity, the time frame of 21 to 42 seems unreasonable to me. I know everyone will say that they should get their kids immunized if they want to attend, but if there is a REAL religious objection, then maybe just like our immunocompromised children/medically non immunized children, it should be the parents choice in a school community with no cases. Incubation for measles is 14 days and just because someone is not immunized doesn't mean they are a carrier. And what happens when that time frame does run out and there are still active cases in the region? And even those who ARE immunized can be carriers (give the rate is MUCH lower, but I'm just bringing that up for a devil advocate's point).

I think this is just a lot more gray than black and white.

Except the only religions that prohibit/discourage vaccinations are Christian Scientist, Dutch Reformed and one other that I forget. Not Catholics, Baptists, Presbyterians etc