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Given the fact that the same parents would have just drawn the religious exemption card up until 2019, the danger to no one actuallyincreased it didn't decrease as it should have. Homeopathy is bullshit and I'm glad another mole providing it has been whacked, but this is not really comparable to ppl switching vaccines with saline or something.
I would say the risk still did increase for other kids at least some, though it may be relatively negligible.
When there was the religious exemption, the school still knew which kids were and weren’t vaccinated. Not that I expect public schools to be good at epidemiology, but they could contact trace in the case of any sort of outbreaks. When a kid that isn’t vaccinated comes in with a rash on them, you might think of measles and begin to take measures for that like sending a kid home or calling the local CDC. Even if it turns out to just be chickenpox or something else.
By falsifying records and saying the kids are vaccinated when they’re not, it completely throws a wrench into any of that. When they say they’re vaccinated and come in with a rash you don’t think of measles until more kids have gotten it and gotten sick.
I'd agree to that
That's a good way of putting it. The danger was supposed to go down, but it did not because of these assholes.