Since it was introduced in 2017, thousands have collected their “Vaccine Education Certificate,” then continued to duck the shots for their children
Parents in Ontario who want to send their kids to school unvaccinated must now first attend a class of their own.
With the resurgence of dreaded, entirely preventable illnesses like measles and whooping cough, there are renewed calls for compulsory shots, not only for school-aged children but for babies and toddlers as well, with no waivers or opt-outs except for medical reasons. But Ontario’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. David Williams, says the goal isn’t to scare, berate or coerce parents. It’s to make sure those who object to one or more designated shots are fully informed of what they’re risking. “We’re trying to give them what they need to know so they can make a good decision,” he said — the good decision, of course, being to vaccinate their children.
At the Huron County Health Unit, “It has been our experience that generally parents who attend the vaccine education session continue to seek an exemption afterwards,” said spokeswoman Rita Marsh. The video itself certainly covers vaccine basics — what’s in them and how they work. It explains how vaccines beat both smallpox and polio . It makes clear that homeopathic vaccines, or “nosodes,” watery, massively diluted solutions that have never been proven to prevent infection, are no substitute for real vaccines, no matter how they’re marketed. And it refutes the autism myth perpetrated by Wakefield’s since-retracted paper.
“Parents stated that they have already extensively researched the topic of vaccine safety and effectiveness and that they found it insulting to have the government force them to be ‘re-educated,’” says vice-president Ted Kuntz, who, at the request of the Post, put out a question to parents on the organization’s social media platforms.
In the U.S., three states — Mississippi, West Virginia and California — have done away with religious and personal belief exemptions for public school students. In Mississippi, the state or deputy state epidemiologist reviews even medical exemptions. Today, the state has the highest vaccination rate in the U.S.
“All you need is one province to take the lead, and, if the vaccination rate starts to improve, others may follow. Imagine if all the money wasted on this education program in Ontario was used to enforce a mandatory policy?” A better way to improve vaccination rates, she argues, is to make the shots more convenient for working parents, and to teach children earlier about the history of scourges like small pox and polio “so that when they become adults they know the evidence that is out there.”
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