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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: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday August 08 2018, @09:31PM (3 children)
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @11:25PM (2 children)
Honestly I think the majority of conservatives who support Trump would recoil if we went full Nazi. His stance on regulations and taxes seems to be the clincher for most of them. They tolerate his insanity by lying to themselves about it so they can keep getting those sweet tax breaks and regulation rollbacks and stick it to the hippy liberals trying to ruin their life *eyeroll*.
The house of cards is falling apart and when conservatives realize just how badly they've been lied and how many wannabe-nazis are among them, well then I don't think we'll be in any danger. Politicians and lobbyists on the other hand... they might want to stay inside. I hear conservatives like their guns.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday August 08 2018, @11:54PM (1 child)
You vastly overestimate "conservatives" in general and Trump supporters in particular. There are people on this site who half-jokingly refer to him as "God-Emperor," but it seems that a good chunk of the US population, call it around 10-15%, actually believe it, though they don't use the term explicitly.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 09 2018, @03:47AM
The people on this site are massive trolls, some may be old but not many evolved after year 14.
There is a limit to the spin Fox news is capable of, the seams are already starting to tear. Part of what worked so well back in the day is that there was no mass communications systems. Radio was the best they could do and that was easily controlled. Much easier to generate anger when you can spoon feed a single narrative and that is the ONLY option of getting news about the world.
There are some insane angry conservatives that would gladly mow down a group of people anywhere on the West Coast, but they are thankfully few and far between. The rest are angry but not insane. I worry more about yet another war the country will get shoved into by the corrupt bastards, the civil unrest is really just the "circuses" part except they realized the circus could be for THEIR enjoyment instead of our own. Works better actually.