Schools and everywhere else need to stop accepting non-medical exemptions. The “religious” or “philosophical” reasons for not vaccinating should not permit the child to be admitted to school, daycare, playgroups, or anything else. Inconvenience the parents enough to make the right choice.
In Marin County, a wealthy liberal enclave in California, a lot of anti-vaxxers used to be wealthy white suburbans. When COVID hit, those groups found themselves aligned with the right-wing MAGA crowds.
Proving once again, that if you go far enough left, you may come full circle to the far right.
These children do not deserve to suffer because society has decided that they are property of their parents. Every child should be required to be vaccinated until they can consent to refusal. It is evil that we allow parents this unfettered power over the lives of their children.
The problem isn't these children, it's the children that can't be vaccinated for legitimate medical reasons. They rely on herd immunity to prevent these diseases from spreading effectively in the population in general. Herd immunity levels vary by the disease, but generally it needs to be around 90%+ so those that can't receive the immunizations can still be effectively protected.
The current anti-vax bullshit brings those rates down into the 80% range or even lower in many areas already. It only gets worse as it spreads more.
Yes, that's all true. And what the fuck are you gonna do about it? COVID burned the last of my humanity. Let their children die. And if they take out vaccinated kids. Let them die. There's no way this turns around without blood and death.