Post : Is Vaccine Discrimination a Thing?
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Posted : July 29, 2019 at 8:57 am
Author : Vincent Iannelli, MD
Tags : Bob Sears, discrimination, ethics, holocaust, medical exemptions, morals, propaganda, segregation, vaccine discrimination
Categories : Blog

Hopefully everyone understands that discrimination is still very common these days. From race and religion to age and sex based discrimination, even with protective laws and regulations, many people face discrimination each and every day.

Is Vaccine Discrimination a Thing?

We should start by saying that vaccine discrimination is not really a thing. After all, no one is discriminating against children and adults with true medical exemptions ( [link removed] ) to getting vaccinated.

[link removed] Is a physician or nurse being nosy or bossy if they ask about vaccines when you go to a clinic or ER with your sick child?

It is only folks who intentionally skip or delay vaccines ( [link removed] ) who think ( [link removed] ) they are being discriminated against.

How does that work?

If their intentionally unvaccinated kid without a medical exemption ( [link removed] ) can't go to camp, play in a baseball tournament, or has to find a new pediatrician ( [link removed] ) , they are now crying discrimination.

[link removed] Which type of person is Bob Sears?

Bob Sears goes as far as saying that the discrimination against parents whose children are intentionally unvaccinated ( [link removed] ) is worse than the treatment of blacks in the Jim Crow era!

> "In my opinion, this is a new type of discrimination at its worst. It’s taking a new class of vulnerable children — the vaccine-compromised — and saying that because they refuse to finish their damn shots, they don’t get school. Forget separate but equal. This is separate ... and NOTHING! No school at all. Soon it’s going to be no playgrounds and no drinking fountains either. Hey, the last time our government did this to a group of people, at least they GOT drinking fountains. They even got to ride buses, as long as they sat in the back. Because our government said “those people” were not safe for the rest of us to be around, and our society stood by and let it happen. And the discrimination we perpetrated on our equals so many years ago is one of the great evils our country is still guilty of. Is that what this article, and the California SB 276 bill it’s supporting, is asking us to go back to?"
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> Bob Sears

I would say that this is the worse thing that he has ever written, but I remember his post about how we were going to start making unvaccinated kids wear yellow stars ( [link removed] ) ...

This isn't even the first time that Bob Sears ( [link removed] ) has written about vaccines and discrimination.

[link removed] Life was good in 1988 ( [link removed] ) ... if you weren't affected by discrimination, segregation, or any of these now vaccine-preventable diseases.

Bob was right about one thing... There is a carefully crafted PR campaign going on. It's full of propaganda ( [link removed] ) to scare parents ( [link removed] ) away from vaccinating and protecting their kids.

This isn't discrimination though.

These are the consequences of their vaccine choice ( [link removed] ) . Unfortunately, it is typically the kids who get stuck with the consequences of the choices their parents make.

Equating real problems of discrimination ( [link removed] ) and segregation ( [link removed] ) to the issue of parents choosing to keep their kids unvaccinated and unprotected is not only silly ( [link removed] ) , but it is also offensive ( [link removed] ) .

> "We shouldn’t accept the idea that there is an ounce of discrimination when we are confronted with these bogus accounts of abuse. By conceding some degree of unfair treatment, when unwarranted, we undermine the real meaning of discrimination. Providing a soundboard to advantaged phonies who are unable to discern between a privilege and right only emboldens those at the top."
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> Time to Fight Fake Discrimination

It subverts the work of all of those who are trying to end true discrimination.

More On Vaccine Discrimination

* Decoding Anti-Vaccine Protests ( [link removed] )
* The Very Worst of the Anti-Vaccine Movement ( [link removed] )
* Do Vaccine Mandates Force Parents to Vaccinate Their Kids? ( [link removed] )
* Did Bob Sears admit that he doesn’t “waste my breath” talking about the benefits of vaccines? ( [link removed] )
* Time to Fight Fake Discrimination ( [link removed] )
* Discrimination by Type ( [link removed] )
* Ethical Issues and Vaccines ( [link removed] )
* Does society try to shame and shun vaccine refusers and the vaccine-averse? ( [link removed] )
* Cultural Perspectives on Vaccination ( [link removed] )
* Parents who won’t vaccinate their kids turning to home-schooling in California, data show ( [link removed] )
* Healthcare worker flu vaccination – examining lawsuits about the vaccine ( [link removed] )
* Dr. Bob Sears of Weekly Cover Fame Compares Anti-Vaxxers to Jews Under Nazis ( [link removed] )
* Our Military Families Deserve Better Than Dr. Bob Sears ( [link removed] )
* The Disneyland measles outbreak: “Dr. Bob” Sears says measles isn’t that bad, and an antivaccine activist invokes the Brady Bunch fallacy ( [link removed] )
* “Dr. Bob” Sears profiled: A cynical vaccine-averse pediatrician who accepts no blame for the results of his antivaccine message ( [link removed] )
* No, Dr. “Bob” Sears, you don’t represent the autistic children of California ( [link removed] )
* Cashing In On Fear: The Danger of Dr. Sears ( [link removed] )
* The war on Christians isn’t actually happening ( [link removed] )
* On Race Relations ( [link removed] )

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