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Emergency Declared in NY over Measles: Unvaccinated Barred from Public Spaces:
Plagued by a tenacious outbreak of measles that began last October, New York's Rockland County declared a state of emergency Tuesday and issued a directive barring unvaccinated children from all public spaces.
Effective at midnight Wednesday, March 27, anyone aged 18 or younger who has not been vaccinated against the measles is prohibited from public spaces in Rockland for 30 days or until they get vaccinated. Public spaces are defined broadly in the directive as any places:
[W]here more than 10 persons are intended to congregate for purposes such as civic, governmental, social, or religious functions, or for recreation or shopping, or for food or drink consumption, or awaiting transportation, or for daycare or educational purposes, or for medical treatment. A place of public assembly shall also include public transportation vehicles, including but not limited to, publicly or privately owned buses or trains...
The directive follows an order from the county last December that barred unvaccinated children from schools that did not reach a minimum of 95 percent vaccination rate. That order—and the directive issued today—are intended to thwart the long-standing outbreak, which has sickened 153 people, mostly children.
What were they waiting for? A pox on them all?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @02:07PM (9 children)
Seriously? Does everyone 18 and under need to carry their vaccination records with them? Are the check-points?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @02:26PM
Yeah, confronting a bunch of jews, demanding to see their papers....I'm sure that'll go well!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @02:27PM
If it's a true emergency, then probably yes. And no pussyfooting around the Jews either. Since they know it's unvaccinated Hassidim driving the epidemic, in a true emergency they will stop every van where all the boys are wearing kippot to ask them for vaccination certs.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by looorg on Wednesday March 27 2019, @02:49PM (1 child)
While I'm not sure exactly how they would do it in Rockland county I would assume that children in school are required to have a note from a doctor that shows that they have received all their inoculations or else they won't be permitted.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @03:15PM
That won't affect the orthodox Jews, they have their brood in religious schools. Part of the government's plan will be to protect the kids from the herd idiocy they live in, they can't just operate through state schools.
(Score: 1, Troll) by FatPhil on Wednesday March 27 2019, @02:56PM (1 child)
I reckon that wearing yellow stars on armbands where the MMR jab would be done is a pretty good way of saying "I'm not vaccinated (but I don't wish to complain)".
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @05:07PM
civilized countries where dhimmis send their kids to the state to be raised as slaves like their parents.
(Score: 3, Informative) by EvilSS on Wednesday March 27 2019, @07:29PM (2 children)
(Score: 2) by Taibhsear on Wednesday March 27 2019, @09:02PM
Same here. You needed to show medical records of what vaccinations you've had or the results of a titer test showing what antibodies you have corresponding to the vaccinations.
(Score: 2) by dry on Thursday March 28 2019, @05:37AM
We just showed the smallpox scar where we were vaccinated. I believe that was the only pre-school vaccination. Later we got jabbed and a sugar cube at school, besides the polio, not sure what other vaccinations we even got. I've had measles, chicken pox, whooping cough and the mumps, which was normal back then. The only thing that almost killed me was tonsillitis.