{"id":182688,"date":"2015-07-01T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/07\/01\/sanity-wins-in-california\/"},"modified":"2015-07-01T17:43:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T22:43:00","slug":"sanity-wins-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/07\/01\/sanity-wins-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanity Wins in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California, in response to a measles outbreak in California, the state legislature passed , and now Governor Jerry Brown has singed into law, what is one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/political\/la-me-ln-governor-signs-tough-new-vaccination-law-20150630-story.html\">most aggressive vaccine mandates in the nation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Adopting one of the most far-reaching vaccination laws in the nation, California on Tuesday barred religious and other personal-belief exemptions for schoolchildren, a move that could affect tens of thousands of students and sets up a potential court battle with opponents of immunization.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">California\u2019s weakened public health defenses against measles and other preventable diseases led to the adoption of the measure, signed Tuesday by Gov. Jerry Brown, intended to stem the rising number of parents who opt not to inoculate their children.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Public health officials said a proliferation of waivers, many sought because of unfounded concerns about the safety of vaccines, helped fuel a measles outbreak that started at Disneyland in December and quickly spread across the West, infecting 150 people.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">California joins Mississippi and West Virginia as the only states to ban vaccination waivers based on religion. All 50 states require immunization of children starting school, although about 20 allow exemptions based on personal beliefs.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Beginning with the 2016 school year, the new law could affect more than 80,000 California students who annually claim personal belief exemptions.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Only medical exceptions will be allowed for those entering day care and kindergarten. Children with physician-certified allergies and immune-system deficiencies, for example, will be exempted.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I will mix my victory toast with the tears of anti-vaxxers.<\/p>\n<p>These anti-science ratf%$#s have a lot of blood on their hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California, in response to a measles outbreak in California, the state legislature passed , and now Governor Jerry Brown has singed into law, what is one of the most aggressive vaccine mandates in the nation: Adopting one of the most far-reaching vaccination laws in the nation, California on Tuesday barred religious and other personal-belief exemptions &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[968,1204,1020,1150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-junk-science","category-legislation","category-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182688"}],"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=182688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}