The niece who won’t vaccinate strikes again, with a FB share from the person who wrote this:
The political divide has never been worse… So, don’t mind me while I throw some fuel on this fire 
This took quite a while to sift through but I had to do it.
I just went through EVERY single vaccine bill across the country and looked into who authored them, the bad AND the good.
The DANGEROUS bills include things like:
allowing doctors to administer HPV and Hep B vaccine to minors without parental consent
forced vaccination and medical treatment under certain circumstances.
requiring a signature from your doctor to obtain a religious exemption
mandating of the HPV vaccine
various forms of tracking and registering vaccination status in public and private databases
The ENCOURAGING bills include:
adding religious exemptions for school and hospital employees
requiring healthcare providers to show parents the vaccine package and insert (hello, informed consent… 
)
requiring notifying parents of the use of aborted fetal cells in certain vaccines
making it unlawful to mandate vaccines for healthcare workers
strengthening and expanding medical exemptions
allowing for titers to be drawn and used as proof of immunity.
21 dangerous bills with 56 authors
47 of them Democrats 
9 Republicans
11 encouraging bills with 22 authors
21 of them Republican and 1 Democrat
I cannot tell you how many time I have been told that this isn’t a party line issue.
I can’t tell you how many times my liberal friends have argued with me that the Conservative legislators are just as dangerous and won’t support us in this fight either.
The proof is in the pudding guys. 
85% of the authors are Democrats on the bills to take away your right to refuse vaccines.
95% of the authors are Republicans on the bills that support our right to choose.
These 
Are The FACTS
If Sanctuary cities, universal healthcare, and unions are more important the body autonomy and parental rights, by all means, keep voting blue.
https://nvicadvocacy.org/members/Home.aspx
The bills she is referring to are on this page–scroll down:
I’m stealing this.
Good Lord. Her kids are homeschooled?
How can you argue with those emoji’s, really?
I didn’t realize that the party lines were as stark as that, actually, I know there are enough on the left that are anti-vax as well as the right. Glad to see that at least the representives on the left aren’t quite as dumb about it at the moment.
I agree with all the “dangerous bills”, and the only “encouraging bill” that I do not fully oppose is the titers one, but I’ve always thought that was rather pointless.
I’ve never seen a titer test that didn’t cost much more than the vaccine it was testing for, so if the conspiracy is that they are just giving vaccines to make money, then they should be even more motivated to recommend titers rather than vaccines anyway.
Well, as long as they’re home, and not out in public where they could infect people.
The oldest just turned five, so I think at this point she’s the only one that’s really being homeschooled. The next one is two and a half, and the baby was just born on Halloween. But yes, they will all be homeschooled because of the vaccine issue, and the parents are very religious and don’t want the kids learning things like the Earth is really old, and they think public education is a big expensive failure anyway.
The kids do go out in public, though. They go to the store, restaurants, the park, other people’s houses, Church, Etc.
Measles outbreak grows in Pacific Northwest anti-vaccination ‘hot spot’
One of the regional hospitals is banning people under 12, people with any signs of measles, unvaccinated people, and immunocompromised people from visiting the labor and delivery, mother-baby, and neonate units.
The last time I heard the distinctive Whooping Cough cough was at a McDonald’s playland.
It appears you have to register on their site to get access to that page. I really wonder what some of the “Dangerous” bills say. Some I get - like requiring HPV, or requiring a doctor’s signature, which shows that the person requesting a religious exemption knows the consequences. Others I doubt.
To be ignorant is one thing, but to spread it with passion and purpose is quite another. If anti-vaxxers want to just quietly not get their children vaccinated, I still have a problem with it, but the least they could do is shut up and keep their ignorance to themselves.
Fortunately, pertussis is not very contagious at all, and there is virtually no chance that any other children coming into contact with the surfaces that the kid you heard was spewing on will come into contact with the disease.
ETA:
Hmmm, that really needs a /s.
Now see, I feel the exact opposite. I’d rather know who isn’t vaccinated, so I can avoid them.
Here in Washington state, where the number of measles cases has risen to 32, the governor has declared a state of emergency. I know the anti-vaxxers will shrug this off, but shit’s gettin’ real here in Washington.
Well…you have a point.
Have to disagree here - pertussis (whooping cough) is highly contagious via the respiratory route (inhaling micro-droplets from those coughing near you: untreated victims are capable of spreading the disease for about a three-week period).
Spread via contaminated surfaces (i.e. touching something a person infected with pertussis coughed on and then putting your fingers to your nose) should be less of a hazard but still a potential route of spread.
The dry sarcasm was a bit too dry:
Sorry, missed that one.
To make up for it, here’s an entertaining bill being pushed by an Arizona state senator to mandate telling parents about all the nasty things in vaccines, like formaldehyde, aborted fetal tissue, dioxin, used auto parts etc. etc.
*“Boyer said he’s not necessarily opposed to vaccinations for children and sidestepped questions of whether he personally believes vaccines are harmful.”
“But he said there has been an explosion in the number of vaccines that are scheduled to be given to children, going from five in the 1960s to more than 70 now.”*
It’s a favorite antivaxer tactic to exaggerate the number of vaccines kids get by counting the total number of doses of vaccines between birth and age 18 and pretending they’re separate vaccines. It’s as if you were prescribed an antibiotic pill to be taken twice daily for two weeks and someone told you “Omigod! That doctor is giving you 28 antibiotics!!!”
Yeah, even with my edit, that post still called up Poe’s Law for a delightful chat.
When my friend had his first baby, I went and visited. I let out a bit of a cough, because I was a smoker, and suddenly was subject to the third degree about my health and when my last Tdap shot was.
What do you know? Over in The flu sucks thread, kanicbird is touting anti-vax, specifically anti-influenza vaccine nonsense.