{"id":177893,"date":"2019-05-11T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/11\/a-good-start-7\/"},"modified":"2019-05-11T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T23:22:00","slug":"a-good-start-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/11\/a-good-start-7\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s health minister has <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2019\/05\/germanys-health-minister-proposes-a-2790-anti-vaxxer-charge\/\">proposed a \u20ac2500.00 fee for people who refuse to vaccinate their children<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Germany, like the US, is facing a resurgence of measles. But the country\u2019s health minister isn\u2019t taking things lightly. <\/p>\n<p>Health minister Jens Spahn is proposing a blanket fine for any parents of unvaccinated children. The fine runs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bundesgesundheitsministerium.de\/service\/gesetze-und-verordnungen\/guv-19-lp\/impfpflicht-gesetz.html\">up to \u20ac2,500<\/a> ($2,790). He also suggests banning unvaccinated children from all kindergarten and daycare facilities to protect those who are too young to vaccinate and those with medical conditions that prevent them from being vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bundesgesundheitsministerium.de\/presse\/interviews\/interviews\/bams-05052019.html\">an interview published over the weekend<\/a>, Spahn explained that immunization is a &#8220;social responsibility,&#8221; adding that &#8220;measles vaccinations save human suffering. We protect ourselves and others.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Fining anti-vaccine and vaccine-hesitant parents isn\u2019t new. Officials in New York levied $1,000 fines on parents of some unvaccinated children amid ongoing measles outbreaks last month. However, the fines only applied to children in specific areas at the epicenter of the outbreak. Spahn\u2019s proposal, on the other hand, would see fines handed down regardless of an outbreak\u2014and the fine is even heftier.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s health minister has proposed a \u20ac2500.00 fee for people who refuse to vaccinate their children: Germany, like the US, is facing a resurgence of measles. But the country\u2019s health minister isn\u2019t taking things lightly. Health minister Jens Spahn is proposing a blanket fine for any parents of unvaccinated children. The fine runs up to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[371,460,600],"class_list":["post-177893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-europe","tag-public-health","tag-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}