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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @09:05PM (3 children)
however much you dislike the result.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @09:28PM (2 children)
math is only as good as the person writing the equation.
people like those on that site deliberately write equations that leave out important factors
and when you show the missing factors are important, they just put their fingers in their ears and chant "nyah, nyah, nyah - I can't hear you"
Smart people dont even waste their time on that shit
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 08 2018, @10:05PM (1 child)
Yeah, that'd be like taking physics advice from a patent clerk.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @10:19PM
What a bizarrely defensive non-sequitur.
Ironically, you've demonstrated my point. You are trying to misdirect focus on to the patent clerk part. When in fact Einstein only took that job after he already graduated with his degree in physics.
The degree is the important factor, but you left that out. Just like all your disinformation sources about AGW leave out the important stuff when they preach to their followers who eagerly lap up their lies because it makes them feel soooo smart - keepers of secret knowledge hidden from them by the establishment and the mainstream media.