IT’S ALL OUR FAULT
Last year’s measles outbreak in northwest Indiana, the nation’s largest in nearly a decade, could have been avoided, health officials say, had home- schooled children been vaccinated against the disease. So could a mumps outbreak last year that affected more than 2,500 people.
Indiana has a religious exemption law, so even if every one of these kids had been in the g-schools it would have made no difference. The fact is that this outbreak had nothing to do with education. It’s a freedom of religion issue.
3 Responses to “IT’S ALL OUR FAULT”
 Comment by Unique August 12th, 2006 at 7:28 pm |
Or that people who HAD been vaccinated also came down with the disease. |
 Comment by Daryl Cobranchi August 12th, 2006 at 9:53 pm |
So how does their chosen means of fulfilling the compulsory attendnace statutes have anything to do with public health? I’ll say it again– these kids could just as easily have been g-schoolers. Then what? Are you going to work to repeal the religious exemption law? Good luck with that windmill. |
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Comment by Daryl Cobranchi August 13th, 2006 at 9:41 am |
Yes, and in the NEJM or a public health journal it’s entirely appropriate to describe the cohort. In the lay press it will only serve to create alarm and a call to have mandatory vaccines for all HEKs. I’m not anti-vaccines; we’ve had vaccinated all of our kids. I’m against the press trying to make this a homeschooling issue. |