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This is Braden.Braden is a healthy young boy with a singular severe allergy: gelatin.Turns out that it's no big deal, really. So long as he avoids gummy candy, certain desserts, and vaccines, he's fine. And it's not like he'll get polio or anything, because 99% of the population is vaccinated. An outbreak can't carry.Well, one day Braden's parents move to upstate New York for work. There, for whatever social causes, the vaccination rate has dropped to about 80%. Two years in and there's a measles outbreak. Braden is unfortunate enough to get it. He spends two weeks in the ICU with hospital bills soaring into hundreds of thousands of dollars; a child with an immune system prone to allergic reaction to gelatin is significantly more likely to end up with more complications from a severe infection.And here's where the issue lies: whose bodily autonomy was at hand? I guaranfuckingtee that his five-year-old classmates didn't decide against vaccination because they falsely believed in a link to autism. Alas, it was their parents that decided they'd rather risk death by communicable disease than social difficulty.The "bodily autonomy" of children is never a considered factor in anything else. If a child breaks an arm, the parent has a legal right to deny that child a trip to the hospital to get it set. If the child has pneumonia, the parent isn't legally required to do anything.But the parent is already held responsible if their child harms another. If they let their toddler have the car keys and that child backed over Braden, the parents would face charges of neglect and manslaughter in most jurisdictions.The "bodily autonomy" argument doesn't hold up because a child cannot consent to medical intervention, but my child shouldn't be forced to face life-threatening illness because you neglect your own.Edit:A few people in the comments have stated that it's a crime to decide against medical care for one's child, and that there's no religious exception. I'll post the following reply.Alabama (http://dhr.alabama.gov/services/child_protective_services/faqs_ca.aspx)allows a broad religious exemption to providing medical care to children.Alaska Statute 47.17.020(d) directs that no charges of abuse or neglect may be issued in the case of a child not being given medical care so long as, I kid you not, the parents pray. The state recognizes prayer as a valid medical practice.Arkansas Code 9–30–103(5)B similarly spells out prayer as a valid option for medical treatment of ailments and injuries, and 12–18–618 goes a step further in stating that the State can't actually press the issue of if the parents are truly praying; a second line of evidence of neglect must be found, as the default assumption is that the parents must be religiously practicing.California utilizes almost the entirety of the Welfare and Institutions Code Section 300 to spell out an exemption of abuse or neglect in the case of sincere religious beliefs.Connecticut allows intervention of an accredited Christian Science practitioner in lieu of medical intervention; this leaves parents ineligible for charges of neglect. (General Statutes Ch 815t 46B-120(B))Delaware Code 16–913 regards sincere prayer as an exemption from charges of neglect.Florida Statute 39.01(32)(a)(f) allows a court to force medical intervention, but bars the prosecution of parents for neglect for not providing medical services to their child in the case of religious preference.Further down the line we have Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, and North Dakota with effectively the same combination of basics.Ohio Revised Code 2151.03 (2151.03 Neglected child defined - failure to provide medical or surgical care for religious reasons.) specifically lays out that if a parent, guardian, or grandparent claims religious cause for not seeking medical care for a child, the threshold for neglect is not met.Then Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming do the exact same thing.http://childrenshealthcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/civilxmptns.pdf (http://childrenshealthcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/civilxmptns.pdf)

I had both doses of the Pfizer vaccine in January, the hospice I volunteer with vaccinated all of us that work directly with patients. The shot itself was minor and very quick. I hate shots…this one was easy. The first dose left me with a sore spot in my arm for a few days. No big deal.The second dose felt the same. However, the next day I had chills and was exhausted. That lasted one day, and I have been completely fine since. I’m glad for the next-day symptoms, because it made me feel like the vaccine was performing as intended.Three weeks later, I feel less worried about life.. and I feel grateful to have been vaccinated so early. I just received a notice that I am now eligible to be vaccinated in the next group because I am a professional parent (state foster and adoptive parents), which is considered crucial infrastructure. So, I have decided to quit feeling guilty about being at the front of the line.In my state of Missouri, the vaccine shortages are centered around St Louis and Kansas City. Other areas have an abundance due to vaccine refusal, and will vaccinate outside of the designated groups. All of the over 55 year olds I know (and their immediate families) have driven an hour or two to rural counties, where they are looking for reasons to vaccinate any one who shows up. I worry for the people in rural areas where nothing ever shut down, and they refuse both masks and vaccines. The hospitals here in the city are filled with folks that have been transported from these rural counties. Once the city folks start taking their weekend road trips again, the country folks will be even more exposed, and completely unprotected.Everyone should get vaccinated…for themselves, their families, their coworkers, and…for all the people who’s names they don’t know, but they cross paths with during the day.

I have several.Trigger warning. Profane rant follows.One: It’s a naturally mutated virus that crossed the line from animals to humans, just like viruses do every damn year. It’s not a biological weapon. The Chinese are not to blame. It could very easily have come out of a feedlot in Kansas (It didn’t but it could have.) It’s just that bird viruses have the habit of jumping from animal to human, and the East Asians raise a whole lot of ducks and chickens.Two: People are losing their goddamn minds for no good reason. Maybe it’s because I am an old fart, and I was alive when there were no vaccines for polio (fatality rate: 30% in healthy young adults), scarlet fever (fatality rate: 20%), measels, mumps, chicken pox, pneumonia (fatality rate 5% except in the elderly when it was 35%), and diptheria (fatality rate 10%). All those diseases had a much, much, much higher death rate than COVID19, and people didn’t lose their goddamn minds, stockpile toilet paper, and huddle in their houses—unless, of course, they were themselves infected in which case they did not break quarantine because they were so self-entitled they thought laws didn’t apply to them. Yes, cupcakes, quarantine procedures have laws regarding them, and if you break them, you are getting a big fat fine and maybe going to jail. Please note I am not saying “don’t take this seriously.” This is a serious situation. I am saying “do not lose your goddamn mind and stockpile “food” you don’t know how to cook, no one in your house will eat, and will end up in a landfill in a month. Yes, I am looking at you, flour-hoarders. Breadmaking is an art. You will be making inedible starch pucks if you don’t already know how to make bread.Three: FFS do not blame every East Asian on the planet and avoid them as if they were lepers. What, you think the guys running your local Chinese restaurant actually have the leisure to run back to China for the New Moon festival every year? Hell no, they’re too busy trying to make a damn living here! And what made you think they’d even want to run back to China? I am not even going to get into the racism that makes you lump everyone with epicanthal folds into the category of “Chinese.”Four: No, this is no reason to completely close the border with Mexico. FFS what is wrong with you? Have you absolutely no concept of how much trade goes on with Mexico? Are you that much of a moron? Should we completely close the border with Canada too? They have about as much to do with the spread of SARS-CoV2 as Mexico has!Five: No, this is no reason to completely close all the borders. You want a Great Depression? This is how you get a Great Depression. FFS, I can’t even with you people.Six: God-Emperor Darth Cheetoh should sit down, shut up, and turn things over to competent people in the CDC and FDA and those people should absolutely NOT be anyone he appointed, or, god help us, Mike “I caused the biggest HIV outbreak in the history of Indiana” Pence. He won’t do this, but he should.Seven: No, there will not be a vaccine in a few weeks, or even a few months. This is because there are rules about testing things you intend to use on other human beings and when you break those rules bad things happen. Humans are not mice. What works on mice sometimes doesn’t work on humans. What works on a few humans sometimes kills more people than the disease when you scale it up to a lot of humans. Remember Fen-fen? Remember the problems with early vaccines? How about thalidomide? It probably will not be more than eighteen months. It is probably not going to be less than a year.Eight: If you are not old and immune compromised, the odds are so high that you will not die that it is beyond being a sure bet. The odds are a lot higher that if you climb in your car to go to the store, you’ll be in a fatal auto accident, and yet you are not losing your goddamn mind over going to Walmart. Your odds are a helluva lot better that you’re just going to feel miserable for a while; pneumonia is not fun, I’ve had it, and sometimes between the coughing that won’t let you sleep and the fact that even your hair hurts, you wonder if death wouldn’t be better, but the odds are it’s not going to kill you. And the death rate from pneumonia back when I was a kid was a helluva lot higher than the death rate from COVID19. There seem to be three strains of this thing. “I have a dry cough,” “This is the worst I have ever felt in my life,” and “Get this guy on a ventilator, STAT!!!” “I have a dry cough” seems to be the most common.Nine: It’s not dysentery. You are not going to shit yourself to death. You do not need 100 rolls of toilet paper. If you catch SARS-COV2 and IF you actually get COVID19 you are still not going to need 100 rolls of toilet paper because the Kleenex ran out. You won’t get a sniffle. You’ll get a cough. (Thanks, John McKay).So FFS, get a grip, Netflix and chill over some Chinese takeout.You cannot get it from a cat**You cannot get it from a ratYou cannot get it from a dog**You cannot get it from a logYou cannot get it from a vegOr sitting on a window ledgeYou cannot get it from a fruitOr from a mouse, however cuteOr get it from someone Chinese*You sure can get it from a sneezeOr touching things and then your faceOr any contaminated placeA face-mask will not help you, SamAnd you don’t want it, Sam-I-AmSo wash your hands at every chanceInstead of touching things, just glanceAnd do not panic, jeez, that’s dumb.Cause panic will not help you, chum.*And quit lumping every East Asian into the category of “Chinese” because they have epicanthal folds.** Yes, I know there are cases of human to dog, cat, and ferret. There are no cases of dog, cat or ferret back to human.