West Virginia House of Delegates cancels religious exemptions for shirking vaccines!

[thewayne]

You can still get medical exemptions for extreme cases, but legally, religious exemptions are no more. The law that was shot down would have allowed private and parochial schools to set their own standards for what qualified as an exemption.

With this law being shot down, there are now five states that do not allow religious exemptions for vaccinations.

https://westvirginiawatch.com/2025/03/24/west-virginia-house-rejects-vaccine-exemption-bill-a-priority-for-morrisey/


Meanwhile, in Kansas, they now have ten confirmed cases with others under observation. In all cases, the children - ranging from birth to 17 years old - were un-vaccinated or under-vaccinated, having had one of the two doses required. The cases span three counties and are the first measles cases in the last seven years. The three counties are all in the southwest corner of the state, closest to where the outbreak in Texas is taking place.

Currently, the Kansas cases have not required hospitalization and the only fatalities have been the one child in Texas, aged 4, and the adult in New Mexico.

https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/healthcare/2025/03/24/kansas-measles-cases-are-unvaccinated-and-under-vaxxed-children/82636954007/


I don't have a link handy, but the parents of the child who died of measle: they remain anti-vax because 'their four other children haven't caught measles'. Play lethal games, win lethal prizes. So they're happy their 4 y/o child has 'gone to the lord'? *SMH* Okay, whatevs. I wonder what the 4 y/o thought about it while she was dying.

Comments

[motodraconis]

All of their children got measles, but "only one" died. However, there is still time for the others to die horribly.

[disneydream06]

WOWZA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Deeply RED state West Virginia voted against religion? :o :o :o

WOWZA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pt. 2.
How sick is it that that couple are will to sacrifice that child because the others are okay. :o :o :o

I hope she thought, My parents are F*** Turds. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I seriously want to know how many of these adult Anti Vaxxers are actually vaccinated themselves? :o :o :o
Hugs, Jon

[thewayne]

A lot of their parents would have been required to get vaccinated when they were young: I don't think our parents had the option of medical exceptions when we were kids.

[disneydream06]

I think it's insane that they are okay being safe, and not autistic, but are willing to deny their children the safety. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[richardf8]

Supreme Court Ruling after all the appeals are done.

Majority Opinion: Measles! Measles for everyone!
Minority Opinion: Get the damn shot, you don't get to infringe other people's right to life because you're dumb.
Barrett's concurring opinion with the majority: if people want to refrain from vaccines after doing their own research, we should allow them to do so.

[elayna]

Good for them! The anti-vax thing is just insane.

[thewayne]

Oh, that sounds like quite a lovely disease to catch!  If only there were some way to prevent it.

[thewayne]

Oh, there's quacks who have "cures" that claim they can undo vaccinations.  And I'm sure they're selling them like crazy, and equally sure they do absolutely nothing as once your genetic system is programmed, you can't un-program it.

[thewayne]

We shall see, sadly.  But by the time it gets up there, perhaps the make-up of the court will have changed, in opinions if not people.

[thewayne]

Absolutely agreed, speaking as one of the legion of immune-compromised.

[conuly]

Almost heaven!

[thewayne]

ROFL!  Good one!

[devilc]

When I see a comment like yours I regret that DW has no "like" button.

[disneydream06]

Yeah, didn't The Felon tell us to drink Drain Cleaner or something to prevent/get rid of Covid?
UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I took care of a patient that did that, years before Covid, and she burnt out her insideds. :o :o :o

[thewayne]

Whenever I see the word 'encephalitis', I cringe.

[thewayne]

Bleach.  Drain cleaner is a very painful way to take your life.  When my immune system failed in '08, the primary immunedeficiency foundation had their annual conference in Phoenix the following year and we attended as we could stay at my parents for free.  Some people with my condition are in such terrible shape that they take bleach baths.  Granted, the bleach is diluted, it's not like it's full strength, but still!  Freaked my wife right the fuck out.

[disneydream06]

A bleach bath? :o :o :o

[thewayne]

Their immune system is so compromised that they need it!  Mine isn't nearly that bad.

[disneydream06]

I wonder if that is the same concept of the Chlorhexidine "baths" that we give in the ICU?
It's used to keep down infections especially with people with central IV lines.

[thewayne]

I will give odds that's a yes.

[silveradept]

The language being used to describe the opposition to the vaccinations would be better used in allowing children to practice their own belief systems, but if you suggest that kind of religious exemption, the same people who want to give their children preventable diseases will suddenly be up in arms about how the parent's right to raise their children is far more important than the child's right to be themselves.

[thewayne]

I immediately thought of how outraged some fundamentalist parents would be to have their kids turn out to be non-believers while minors.

[silveradept]

Or worse, different-believers.

(Non-believers they think they can being back. Changing to something else is embracing the heresy.)