What do you think of Australia's vaccine policy?

[rampy]

I'm born and bred Aussie. We live in WA and kids here can't go to kindy or school
without having been vaccinated. I have a couple of British friends who were so offended that they needed to vaccinate their kids they home schooled because 'well we'll just go back to the uk' but they've stayed and now need to get their kids vaccinated because they have no friends their own age and can't go to school without vaccines.

You can't apply for child related benefits if your kid isn't vaccinated either here.

Having seen NZ have just declared a whooping cough epidemic Id say I agree with WA stance I'm honest!

You literally posted multiple times that you hoped unvaccinated kids would die before becoming adults and I see that MNHQ have deleted your posts.

Thing is if you genuinely believe vaccines are a threat to your child’s health you wouldn’t be prepared to sacrifice that to send them to school. If I thought the vaccine schedule in Australia was to the detriment of my kids, I’d just home school them rather than change my mind about vaccines.

Yes I think if you're Jewish or Muslim then exemption might be possible.

Why specifically those two?

Which religion is anti vax?

I think it's a flawed policy
The kids with woo/abusive/mad parents end up homeschooled and out of sight
If your public health messaging can't convince the majority of parents to vaccinate then it's your issue not theirs

@Roomgigi looks like there is more supervision of homeschooling in Australia so children don’t get hidden

Insane? How so?

Don't forget for many. If us women the HPV vax wasn't available. My DD1 didn't get it and she's 33. Obviously I didn't either. DD2 did have it as available by then. DS is 21 and he just missed out on it by about a year as for some reason they didn't vaccinate the boys originally

The same applies with regard to sex education, teaching children about other religions, requiring regular school attendance, teaching about the origins of the universe, teaching the science behind climate change - all things that some parents object to and will choose to home educate their children in order to avoid. There comes a point you have to draw the line.

I don't know. we don't want to so we filled out forms, our religion doesn't necessarily say no vaccines, but we do believe to follow what God is telling you and we feel it would be wrong for us to get vaccinations

Polio and smallpox aren't that prevalent anymore, and there are ways to cure them naturally so if you aren't at high risk what's the point?

I do believe in evidence-based medicine. Natural and western medicine are both evidence-based, and I intend to find what may not be evidence-based or even faked and to avoid that. Such as additives in vaccinations.

There are literally vaccines that use aborted baby parts in them. I am not ok with that.

Homeschooling in different countries have different rules and doesn't automatically lead to loosing them from sight.

It isn't about punishing the noncompliant families, it is about protecting those who participate in making school environment safe(r) from unnecessary risk of spreading serious illnesses.

Like aborted baby tissue

Ok, I will be praying that your family does not suffer from any affects that the vaccine might have

Such as aborted baby tissue

I'm not totally against vaccination in and of itself. Giving the dead or weakened version of the illness is a great idea, but all of the other things that they add into it can be harmful.

Aborted fetal tissue

Not all of the science is bad, but especially as an immunocompromised person, the extra stuff, such as aborted fetal tissue, that they put in the vaccines is extremely harmful

Whatever you are hearing about america is falsehoods. Make sure you double check that your information isn't biased

The ones that have all the extra added-in stuff. the only thing that you need in a vaccine is the weakened tissue.

My religious exemptions covers that

Ah, that may have been for the Covid vaccine which was tested using cells from an aborted child. I can understand your reservations there.