© Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNGLAUSD parents and students rallied against student COVID-19 vaccine mandates at the corner of Victory Blvd and Balboa Blvd. in Lake Balboa on Monday, October 18, 2021, in conjunction with a statewide Schools Walkout campaign.
All of the states and the District of Columbia mandate that children receive vaccinations against measles, mumps, rubella and other highly contagious, deadly childhood diseases. (Most permit a few limited exemptions.)
Throughout the pandemic, the Kaiser foundation, a nonpartisan health care research organization, has been issuing monthly reports on changing attitudes toward COVID vaccines. The surveys have showed a growing political divide over the issue, and the latest study indicates that division now extends to routine childhood vaccinations.
Forty-four percent of adults who either identify as Republicans or lean that way said in the latest survey that parents should have the right to opt out of school vaccine mandates, up from 20% in a pre-pandemic poll conducted in 2019 by the Pew Research Center. In contrast, 88% of adults who identify as or lean Democratic endorsed childhood vaccine requirements, a slight increase from 86% in 2019.
The survey found that 28% of adults overall believed parents should have the authority to make school vaccine decisions for their children, a stance that in the 2019 Pew poll was held by just 16% of adults.
The shift in positions appears to be less about rejecting the shots than a growing endorsement of the so-called parents' rights movement. Indeed, 80% of parents said the benefits of vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella outweighed the risks, down only slightly from 83% in 2019.
Comment: This movement has been years in the making, however it seems that the infiltration of LGBT and woke ideology into school culture and curricula has catalysed numerous parents into rallying against the governments undue influence, and say, over the lives of their children. A say that, increasingly, takes precedence over and above that of the parents.
Then there's the fact that parents have found themselves to subject to coercive mandates with regards to the experimental Covid injections.
"The talking point that has been circulated is the concept of taking away parents' rights," said Dr. Sean O'Leary, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics' committee on infectious diseases. "And when you frame it that simply, it's very appealing to a certain segment of the population. But what about the right to have your children be safe in school from vaccine-preventable diseases?"
Still, O'Leary said that he wasn't overly worried that school vaccine mandates would be lifted but that the growing embrace of parents' rights might further slow compliance with state-required immunization schedules, a timeline that has long been endorsed by pediatricians.
Comment: A recent study from the WHO shows that medical experts of all kinds, who supported lockdowns, and the experimental vaccines, as a way to 'save lives', were wrong: Excess deaths DOUBLED in 2021, NOT from Covid, lockdown partly to blame, WHO research reveals
"We know a lot of kids missed their vaccines during the pandemic, not because they were refusing, but because, for many reasons, people weren't going to the doctor," he said. "And we do have a global dip in vaccine coverage. So this is not a time to be considering a rollback of these laws."
The latest survey was based on interviews with a nationally representative sample of 1,259 adults and was conducted from Nov. 29 through Dec. 8.
It showed disappointing rates of uptake of the latest COVID booster, a "bivalent" shot that targets both the original coronavirus and the omicron variant and has been available since September. Just 4 in 10 adults said they had either gotten the booster or intended to do so. Among those 65 and older — the age group at the highest risk — about 1 in 4 said they had been too busy to get it or had not found the time to do so.
Even among adults who had received previous COVID vaccines, the survey found that more than 4 in 10 said they felt they did not need this latest shot.
Only about one-third of respondents said they personally feared getting very ill from COVID, although half expressed concerns in general about rising rates of COVID this winter. About two-thirds of Black and Latino adults were apprehensive about COVID rates, compared with about 4 in 10 white adults.
The survey also found that about half of parents worried that their children could fall sick this winter from COVID, the flu or RSV (respiratory syncytial virus), a sign that COVID was increasingly becoming normalized in the public's perception and joining the landscape of seasonal illnesses.
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