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An amendment from Italy's anti-establishment government that removes mandatory vaccination for schoolchildren is sending shock waves through the country's scientific and medical community.
It suspends for a year a law that requires parents to provide proof of 10 routine vaccinations when enrolling their children in nurseries or preschools. The amendment was approved by Italy's upper house of parliament on Friday by 148 to 110 votes and still has to pass the lower house.
The law had originally been introduced by the Democratic Party in July 2017 amid an ongoing outbreak of measles that saw 5,004 cases reported in 2017 -- the second-highest figure in Europe after Romania -- according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Italy accounted for 34% of all measles cases reported by countries in the European Economic Area, the center said.
Italy's Five Star movement and its coalition partner, the far-right League, both voiced their opposition to compulsory vaccinations, claiming they discourage school inclusion.
English Language Source: https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/07/health/italy-anti-vaccine-law-measles-intl/index.html
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @07:18PM (20 children)
They didn't invent anti-vaxx conspiracies, but russian bots are boosting them online. And the more people who are mentally conscripted by those bots, the more children actually die as a result. Its literally a way to kill people via the internet. It 21st century germ warfare.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @07:27PM (3 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @10:51PM
Sure there is, you just loosen consumer safety regulations and allow doctors to refuse treatment to stupidity related illness and accident.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Thursday August 09 2018, @08:25AM (1 child)
Problem is that the ones who pay are the children, not the parents who condemned them to die of a perfectly treatable illness.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 09 2018, @03:20PM
Sorry for being so callous, but maybe those genes being removed will make the rest of us stronger.
(Score: -1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @07:27PM (4 children)
My boy is awetistic on account of all the vacinations
Ban them now
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @07:43PM (3 children)
awetistic? So all of the photos of him make everyone go awwww? Neat side effect.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @08:10PM (2 children)
It's more the awww, that's a shame, let's all give them special consideration and money.
Ribbing aside, on a serious note, it's been figured out that TV watching ages 0-3 causes autism.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-fallible-mind/201706/there-is-new-link-between-screen-time-and-autism [psychologytoday.com]
https://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/news/20061019/tv-implicated-in-autism-rise#1 [webmd.com]
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @09:02PM (1 child)
Rather than cause autism, the lack of social interaction could make autism symptoms more apparent and lead to a diagnosis and worse life. Lock up a kid in a closet and they will end up fucked up too. Require a kid to socialize with others instead of being glued to a screen, and they may never get an autism diagnosis.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by RS3 on Wednesday August 08 2018, @09:08PM
I think you're onto something here... could be either or both, depending on the kid's biological predisposition, environment, specific stuff he (she) watches, etc.
(Score: 4, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 08 2018, @07:52PM (8 children)
Ah well, it's cheaper than building the B Ark.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @08:42PM (7 children)
You'd give up your Captain's chair so easily?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 08 2018, @09:52PM (6 children)
Sorry, slappy, I create. What do you do?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @10:00PM (2 children)
hahahahaha
sitting in a machine room isn't creating
you are a useless parasite on the ass of the world with delusions of self importance
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @10:15PM (1 child)
Actually, it is. It created this place. Feel free to go elsewhere and create your own.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @10:21PM
Nah bruh, he hacked his own personal opinions into the code of this place which came from slashdot.
And if you think for a second that this site has any importance in the world, you gotta leave that basement more often.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @11:00PM (2 children)
Well none of the other ACs were me, can't take a joke huh? You mock people all the time but one funny jab and you go all serious.
I happen to also create, and I've been a teacher, a researcher, and early in life I even did construction!
I'd give it all up to Captain a starship though, even if it is full of your cousins :P
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 09 2018, @03:03AM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 09 2018, @03:38AM
You're AC #719211
What you didn't think you were being tracked? lol it is RIGHT THERE!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @08:49PM (1 child)
only problem with this method of mass destruction is ITS NOT HAPPENING FAST ENOUGH. it'll never overcome the birthrate.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday August 08 2018, @09:18PM
There have been periods when it did overcome the birthrate...admittedly, not for very long at a time, but possibly long enough to cause the feudal system to crash. (Well, there *are* other explanations, but that seems to be the most reasonable one.)
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.