(10-07-2021 12:19 PM)GRBRONCO Wrote: (10-07-2021 11:55 AM)BroncoMinor Wrote: Should we treat this as a great breakthrough for science & medicine and celebrate it for potentially saving many human lives?
Or should we politicize this & start thinking of ways to discredit its value? Is your freedom being taken away if you get the vaccine? Is the "jab" more dangerous than malaria? Does it go against someone's religious beliefs to prevent dying from malaria?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58833382
I apologize in advance if the BBC website is considered a part of the deep state mainstream media. If someone has a more reliable source of journalism from Facebook or Breitbart, please share.
How about we just treat it like we used to treat all vaccines. Let people take it if they want it and move on without judging them. Pretty easy isn't it?
Treat it like we used to treat all vaccines you say?
A history of vaccine mandates in schools
The first vaccine mandate in U.S. schools was enacted in Massachusetts in the 1850s to prevent smallpox transmission. By the 1900s, nearly half of all states had the same requirement.
“Initially when mandates were started, the idea was to prevent epidemic spread of diseases, and to essentially control epidemics,” Shen said. “Through the decades, it evolved to increasing vaccination coverage that was deemed important for public health in the absence of an epidemic.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), by 1963, 20 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico had mandates requiring a variety of vaccines to enter school. But enforcement was uneven.
By the late 1960s, there was a renewed focus on vaccinating school children because of measles outbreaks across the country.
“We knew that transmission in schools was a really big problem,” Shen said. “When we took a look at jurisdictions that were strictly enforcing mandates that excluded unvaccinated kids, it showed that mandates were really effective because the states that strictly enforced the school entry requirements had lower incident rates.”
In 1977, the U.S. federal government set up the Childhood Immunization Initiative aimed at increasing vaccination rates in children against the seven diseases for which vaccines are routinely given in childhood, including:
diphtheria
measles
mumps
pertussis
poliomyelitis
rubella
tetanus
This is when all 50 states widely adopted mandatory school vaccinations.