Hello Australia, if you’re anything like me, you f**king hate vaccinations.
They’re often needles, which are quote painful and quite scary
and they’re administered by doctors, who to me serve as a harrowing reminder of my failure to live up to my parents’ expectations
But even non-achieving cowards like yours truly recognise vaccines are important if you don’t want to get diseases like measles and tetanus and rabies
In fact, that last one is particularly important if you plan on fighting as many wild African dogs as I do
Already in New South Wales, unvaccinated kids can be forced to stay home from childcare or primary school during an outbreak
But the government wants to keep unvaxed high school students at home as well
That means if you’re not vaccinated, and a disease you’re susceptible to pops up at your school you could get some sweet unplanned holidays
But it also means that you miss out on learning something really important and practical, like calculus
if you miss them how would you work out how long it would take two trains travelling at 80 and 38 miles per hour, beginning 43 kilometres apart, to meet in the middle?
Just kidding, you’d use algebra for that, not calculus
These NSW government reforms follow on from the Federal Government No Jab No Pay reforms that came into effect in January
which bar families from some government payments if their children haven’t had the required vaccines
In fact, these kinds of reforms have led to record highs in immunisation rates across the country.. except in a few areas like the region surrounding Byron Bay and Bellingen
Shocking, I know
The record immunisation rates might seem surprising given the climate of hysteria surrounding vaccinations fuelled by credible vaccination scientists like Donald Trump and Jim Carrey
But lemme tell you a little secret... come here, come here, come here
There is no link between vaccines and autism
This is agreed on by the Australian Medical Association, the Centre for Disease Control, the World Health Organisation and Wikipedia
But why would the NSW government want to send unvaccinated students home?
Well, it’s called Herd Immunity. In a population as large as Australia’s you’re going to have a very, very, small amount of people who cannot be vaccinated due to allergic reactions
If everyone they come into contact with is vaccinated they’re basically still protected
But if enough people decide not to get vaccinated, that increases the danger for the people with genuine medical exemptions, and could lead to deadly outbreaks
the safest thing to do, is to keep unvaccinated kids away from possible infections and that’s what these health reforms are aiming for
obviously there is a segment of the community that is very vocal about this kind of thing, so if you do disagree with this coverage
I would love to hear from you. I would love to read your well-reasoned, logical responses to this piece, so please -
feel free to get in touch with me at my email address
Marc_Fennell@hotmail -
Hey!
None of that
