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I can tell you when California made all vaccines mandatory to attend school there was an exodus of people from the Democratic Party and California is now more republican than it’s ever been. California will take away the license of doctors who write medical exemptions. It’s a fascist movement started by democrats. I’m democrat, but haven’t voted since this happened. Given this election I keep thinking I’m going to vote until I see something like this. I think you missed an important part of your research

https://www.hrsa.gov/sites/default/files/hrsa/vicp/vicp-stats-10-01-24.pdf

This is from a government site. Vaccines are NOT 100% effective. However, those of us who have experienced an injury are in the minority and are treated by democrats the way Trump treats immigrants.

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California’s medical exemption is a joke. If a doctor gives a medical exemption they lose their license. Then that medical exemption has to go to the state for approval so someone who doesn’t know the patient makes the final determination if that medical exemption is worthy. They are practicing medicine without knowing the patient, which is a legal and any other doctor would lose their license.It’s a fascist state when it comes to vax. It’s also the reason so many here left the Democratic Party. It’s more republican than it’s ever been. The scary part is because these people know that vax cause injuries because they experienced it and they hear Dems say they’re crazy and it’s a hoax, they started believing all the conspiracies. One thing I haven’t heard from you is any concern for those of us who experience lifelong injuries or who have lost someone.

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Hello LB and thanks for your comment. I agree, of course, that vaccines are not 100% effective , and that fact is clearly noted by doctors, pharmacists and just about anywhere one reads about vaccines. But they are incredibly effective in reducing the spread of contagious diseases and very often the resulting damage and/or death from the disease. At least one contagious disease, smallpox, that before vaccines killed millions of people, is eradicated, and when a certain number of children and adults are vaccinated, many other, wildly contagious diseases like measles, polio, and many more are all but eradicated. All states have vaccine requirements for the basic contagious diseases, and I hope, always will:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/history-disease-outbreaks-vaccine-timeline/requirements-research

I'm not sure I understand your comment about California...? Perhaps mandating the Covid-19 vaccine?

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I want talking about if they’re effective or not. I was talking about some people being harmed or even experiencing death from them. They aren’t 100% safe. It takes 85% of a population to have herd immunity. The only problem I have is the way people who can’t get vaccinated are treated by democrats. For example, I was just called a murderer in the comments. Due to the risks associated with vax, they should not be mandatory. There should be body autonomy like every other medical treatment…well almost every other. When Harris wins abortions will be back to having autonomy.

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I don't see that you were called a murderer on this post's comments, but I am sorry that you were somewhere else. Every state has a medical exemption for mandatory vaccines. I personally do not think there should be religious exemptions for vaccines and neither does the medical community.

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Oct 23Liked by Joan DeMartin

MAGA republicans believe nonsensical and illogical rubbish about many things.... I'm not surprised at all; stupid is as stupid does.....

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Scary and typical of what has become of the Republican Party.

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Thanks for your comment, Lisa. Yes, it is scary, alright — it's practically an alternate universe!

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