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JT45242

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28. Different approach but punitive to anti-vaxxers
Mon Jun 15, 2026, 02:25 PM
11 hrs ago

If you choose not to vaccinate your children, the you are choosing to

a) forfeit the ability of your children to attend any public school
b) forfeit the ability to go to any private school that wants to accept state or federal funding for ANYTHING (no title monies of any sort for transportation, books, etc)
c) forfeit the ability to have health insurance through your employer
d) forfeit the ability to have health insurance through the ACA exchanges
e) forfeit the ability to have medical debt extended through payment plans longer than 1 year. Maximum payments of 50% of income until the debt is paid in full.
f) forfeit the ability to have medical debt forgiven in bankruptcy
g) An exception will be made for ER to not provide services to people not vaccinated against polio, measles, etc. (let some super intelligent medical people decide the list, the first two are non-negotiable). They will divert the patients to a quarantine site until the patient recovers based on medical interventions that the family can pay for in advance, resolves on their own without treatment because the family could not pay, or the patient dies (like a modern day leper colony).


Basically you must home school your kids on your dime. If they get sick, you will be financially responsible for paying it at rates that are punitive because your idiot self will not be allowed to bankrupt the health care system.

Perhaps these idiots should read a sermon by Leslie Weatherhead from the middle of WW2.

"I am quite sure that the battle against disease is the will of God, and I thank
God for all those people who are taking part in it. In olden days in this country,
wolves used to descend from the woods upon a village and do a great deal of harm.
But our sturdy forefathers did not call the invasion of the wolves "the will of God."
They called up all their resources, and they "liquidated" the wolves. When the
community is set upon by an invasion of germs, that is not the will of God. The
situation is just the same. You may tell me that the animals are smaller and the germs of disease can be seen only through a microscope, but the problem is the same, and
the battle is the same. I cannot understand how anybody who has read the New
Testament can ever stand at the bedside of a patient, and without explaining
himself, utter the pathetic complaint that disease is the will of God. I always imagine
that Jesus would speak with anger about such a thoughtless dictum.
When a woman
was brought to him who had been ill for a long time, he spoke of her as "this woman
... whom Satan hath bound, lo, those eighteen years." Satan! As far as I can
understand Jesus' attitude, but in the words he spoke and the healing miracles he so
gloriously wrought, he always regarded disease as part of the kingdom of evil, and
with all his powers he fought it and instructed his followers to do the same."

From the Circumstantial Will of God Sermon 2 in a 5 part series (emphasis added by me)

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These parents need to be charged with abuse JBTaurus83 14 hrs ago #1
Well, its not going to happen in Utah. milestogo 13 hrs ago #3
Or Idaho. 2naSalit 12 hrs ago #12
And the kooks, too. 😉❤️ littlemissmartypants 12 hrs ago #14
He! 2naSalit 12 hrs ago #16
Love you, 2na. ❤️ littlemissmartypants 12 hrs ago #17
Fuck you, antivaxxers. Fuck each and every one of you. RockRaven 13 hrs ago #2
"...sign here and here and here, releasing... ret5hd 13 hrs ago #4
Anti-vax parents will probably never face reality. pat_k 13 hrs ago #5
The parents of one kid who died recently (I think it was the TX outbreak, but RockRaven 11 hrs ago #23
Heartbreaking. pat_k 11 hrs ago #25
I don't understand these parents MustLoveBeagles 13 hrs ago #6
Sadly, there ain't no cure for Disaffected 12 hrs ago #7
Re: Sadly, there ain't no cure for stupid alimbalt 12 hrs ago #8
"Evolution in progress..." n/t the nelm 12 hrs ago #13
It is but also sadly, Disaffected 11 hrs ago #21
There is for psychosis, but the sufferers are not prone to seek it voluntarily. ❤️ littlemissmartypants 12 hrs ago #15
There was a measels epidemic in the very late 50s& early 60s in Michigan irisblue 12 hrs ago #9
Depraved indifference! BidenRocks 12 hrs ago #10
If only there was something LisaL 12 hrs ago #11
Are we witnessing the beginnings of the downfall of a once-great nation? 70sEraVet 12 hrs ago #18
That began in 1980 SamuelTheThird 11 hrs ago #24
vaccines maliaSmith 11 hrs ago #19
I suspect we will be seeing more of this in prodimantely (R) areas of the country. Because ... aggiesal 11 hrs ago #20
Parents who refuse to vaccinate their children with time-tested vaccines against . . . cer7711 11 hrs ago #22
They should be described as they are - selfish. cab67 11 hrs ago #27
In part, we can thank the Nixon Administration. cab67 11 hrs ago #26
Different approach but punitive to anti-vaxxers JT45242 11 hrs ago #28
Thank you RFK Jr, you fucking bastard. marble falls 11 hrs ago #29
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