Posted on 10/13/2021 8:24:16 AM PDT by karpov
California has a long history of “firsts.” The Golden State was home to the first computer, the first movie theater, and the first McDonalds. Sadly, the state is now leading the nation in stripping parents of their childrearing authority.
For starters, Governor Gavin Newsom announced a vaccine mandate on October 1, making California the first state to require that public and private school students age 12 or older be fully vaccinated for in-person instruction. (Unvaccinated students will have the option of enrolling in an online school or attending independent-study programs offered by districts.) The mandate will go into effect once the Food and Drug Administration approves vaccines for kids over age 12. Depending on when the expected FDA decision comes down, students will need to get the jab by either January 1 or July 1 of next year. Next up are schoolchildren ages 5 to 11, who will be forced to join the vax club as soon as the FDA greenlights it for them. Newsom recently claimed that so far, 63.5 percent of kids between 12 and 17 had received at least one dose of the vaccine.
Mandate proponents are quick to claim that the Covid vaccine is just the latest addition to a list that includes mumps, measles, and rubella. But unlike those illnesses, Covid does not pose a significant risk to children, and kids are not “super spreaders.” Teachers are more likely to catch it in the teachers’ lounge than in the classroom.
“It’s unconscionable that a society uses its children as shields for adults,” says the Hoover Institution’s Scott Atlas, an M.D. and former advisor to President Trump. “The children do not have significant risk from this illness.”
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California is a lost cause, with all mail in voting the GOP will never be relevant again.
Criminal . . . they will answer to the Lord and it won’t be good.
If the GOP gives up on blue states and Democrats keep trying to turn reddish states like Texas and Georgia blue (they have two senators in the latter), the GOP is doomed.
The “role of parents” was under attack since Hillary Rodham Clinton’s It Takes A village. The meaning is the parents can’t decide for children or plan on raising them——the socialist state decides better than the parents could.
A pamphlet written in China for Chinese students trying to adjust in the US (they actually make US do the adjusting) said In the United States rather than the group action and group betterment goals we are used to, they value the individual and the decisions of the individual. They revere John Wayne and other heroic characters who do not consult the people in general act on their decisions but forge ahead on their own.
I never forgot that pamphlet.
They should have stopped helping the Democrats import a permanent majority decades ago if they cared.
“Criminal . . . they will answer to the Lord and it won’t be good.”
I am with you, but going to change what you said.
[...they will answer to the Lord, and it necessarily will be truly just, and truly righteous.]
Children, like their parents, are no longer ‘personnel’ but instead are “human resources” who will serve the State and their appointed New Socialist overlords.
Communism and one party rule are here.
What a lost opportunity for CA with Larry Elder losing...
Well then it's time for the parents of CA to "Go Loudoun County".
When that book came out, I used to tell people, “It takes a village to raise an idiot”.
Village of the Damned? Scared me badly when I was a kid.
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