Thread by @ritholtz

States Want to Eliminate All Childhood Vaccinations dlvr.it/SJ4L93

“This is the State of Georgia Health Department’s official outline of vaccination requirements for child care and school attendance”

Several COVID anti-vaxxers drafted legislation that would incidentally overturn this schedule in order to avoid COVID vaccines

"A BILL to amend Chapter 1 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia, relating to general provisions regarding state government, so as to prohibit state and local governments from mandating vaccine passports..."

Imagine for a moment that this same anti-Science/Q-anon/RFK Jr. types, relying on memes of debunked nonsense, somehow managed to prevent Polio vaccines from being mandated.

Mandates prevent THEIR kids from giving YOUR kids Polio.

https://twitter.com/slider423/status/1485756106337095680?s=20

Mandates prevent THEIR kids from giving YOUR kids Smallpox...

historyofvaccines.org/content/smallp…

Mandates prevent THEIR kids from giving YOUR kids Measles...

cdc.gov/measles/cases-…

As of Jan 20, 2022, the Georgia Department of Public Health reports 27,284 confirmed Covid deaths (+ 5319 probable Covid deaths) since April 2021.

Over time same period, Georgia had 0 SmallPox and 0 Polio deaths...

dph.georgia.gov/covid-19-daily…

But there were several outbreaks of Measles . . . Care to guess how those came about?

The majority of cases were among people who were not vaccinated against measles.

dph.georgia.gov/press-releases…

You might be sensing a pattern here:

Vaccines prevent infectious diseases from spreading, lower the number of people who become sick, hospitalized, or die.

But Omicron is a milder variant!

Not for your kids: Omicron is 47% more severe in children than previous variants + the further mutated “stealth Omicron” variant, BA.2, is next up to bat.

cbc.ca/news/health/om…