How many kids have to die* before @GOP lawmakers come to their senses about banning Vaccine requirements??

[riversedge]

This dangerous crap HAS TO STOP!! BUT WHO WHAT WILL STOP IT??



Republicans in New Hampshire are moving to remove its requirement for children in child care to get the polio vaccine.

It would be the first state in the nation to do so.

https://motherjones.com/politics/2024/

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New Hampshire’s GOP Is Taking a Stand—Against the Polio Vaccine
The Granite State could be the first to ditch polio and measles requirements for childcare.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/04/new-hampshire-republicans-polio-mmr-measles-vaccine-antivax-bill/






New Hampshire could soon beat Florida—known for its anti-vaccine Surgeon General—when it comes to loosening vaccine requirements. A first-in-the-nation bill that’s already passed New Hampshire’s state House, sponsored only by Republican legislators, would end the requirement for parents enrolling kids in childcare to provide documentation of polio and measles vaccination. New Hampshire would be the only state in the US to have such a law, although many states allow religious exemptions to vaccine requirements.

Currently, Republicans control New Hampshire’s state House, Senate and governor’s office—but that isn’t a guarantee that the bill will be signed into law, with GOP Gov. Chris Sununu seemingly flip-flopping when it comes to disease control. Sununu did sign a bill in 2021 allowing people to use public places and services even if they did not receive the Covid-19 vaccine. But the next year, the governor vetoed a bill that would bar schools from implementing mask mandates.

The polio vaccine, first offered in 1955, and the MMR shot, which treats the highly infectious measles, mumps, and rubella viruses, are two very crucial vaccines both in the US and internationally. Since the year 2000 alone, vaccines against measles are estimated to have saved over 55 million lives around the world.

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“Childhood vaccines have helped protect generations of Americans from potentially devastating diseases.”

The CDC recommends that kids get their first dose of MMR vaccine between 12 and 15 months of age, and a first dose of the polio vaccine at around two months old. All states currently require children to have at least started vaccination against measles and polio in order to enroll in childcare, according to the nonprofit Immunize.org. A CDC report found that for the 2021-2022 school year, around 93 percent of children had received the MMR and polio vaccines by the time they entered kindergarten. That figure drops to less than 80 percent for both vaccines—the lowest rate in the country—in Alaska, where a measles outbreak could be devastating. .................................

[Midnight Writer]

1. As a guide, over a million Americans died of COVID, and the GOP response is to weaken the CDC and NIH,

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arrest Fauci, condemn doctors and nurses as Deep State killers, spread rumors that the vaccines are poison, and pass State laws preventing governments from taking commonsense actions in response to future pandemics.

[Irish_Dem]

2. The GOP does not care how many children die from their policies.

They don't care that children sitting in school are slaughtered with military grade weapons.

Why would they care about polio or measles?

They will kill as many people as it takes to get what they want.
Money and power.

[RockRaven]

3. There is no number. They don't care. To be an elected GrOPer is to be

a sadist and sociopath -- at least that is the conclusion their behavior demands.

[MyOwnPeace]

4. If SANDYHOOK didn't do it......

to those ''STONE-COLD IGNORANT MOTHER-F**KERS" - nothing will.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. Bet this didn't appear on any Sunday morning Republican talk shows on ABC, CBS, NBC.

[meadowlander]

6. Other peoples: Infinite; Their own: One.

Sadly there's a good chunk of adults in their country who can't contemplate the obvious consequences of the policies they support until it affects them or an immediate family member they care about.

[Chainfire]

7. GOP is willing to sacrifice other people's children to maintain they cult following.

[Hekate]

8. Since it is a matter of ideology, nothing will get in. I'm guessing their own darling kiddies are vaxxed.

Gods help us all.

[pansypoo53219]

9. wait. we need the POLIO vaccine again?

[RockRaven]

10. We've never stopped needing them, b/c polio hasn't been globally eradicated.

[pansypoo53219]

12. the 'stans'.

[Johonny]

11. Time travel clearly will never exist

But the GOP has found a way to take America back to 1824 anyway.