42.043. RULES FOR IMMUNIZATIONS.That's not easy. Not easy at all. And I will tell YOU why it is not easy. Please pay full attention as I get to it. When you said "this isn't a hard process" YOU were saying something EASY. It's easy for you to say, but you aren't putting yourself it the shoes of others to so say. That is clear.(d) No immunization may be required for admission to a facility regulated under this chapter if a person applying for a child's admission submits one of the following affidavits:
(1) an affidavit signed by a licensed physician stating that the immunization poses a significant risk to the health and well-being of the child or a member of the child's family or household; or
(2) an affidavit signed by the child's parent or guardian stating that the applicant declines immunization for reasons of conscience, including a religious belief.
It is clear because a conscientious parent, one with moral scruples and a seriousness about what religion and true conscience means will have trouble writing an affidavit attesting to having "reasons of conscience" for objecting to to the vaccine. Why? Because it is likely they have no religious objections to the concept of vaccines, or even of the public health requirements that do indeed give rational public purpose to some vaccines -- such as polio up until very recently, as polio was a true contagious hazard to all. Polio at least until recent years when it is a disease that is so rare that a vaccine for it approaches no longer being for any purpose.
For such truly conscientious folks it is very hard to solemnly swear to a "conscientious objection" of a religious sort. Their objections may be strictly ad-hoc to this particular vaccine, and they object to the State's given rationale for the need to vaccinate. That's a policy objection, not one of conscience.
Yet to such folks HONESTY is paramount. Filing an objection as a "conscientious objection" is simply untrue, so honest are they, so committed to honesty.
IN YOUR GLIBNESS YOU DEMAND that they be dishonest. That's mean. That's ignorant of you. Callous. Glib. Disrespectful of others.
IT WAS LOUSY, UTTERLY LOUSY PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY TO MANDATE THIS VACCINE, and to burden some of the most morally conscientious with a morally compromising opt-out provision.
As Chief Executive of the Republic of Texas, Perry made a number of significant more mistakes in this matter. Mistakes that speak to his nature as a leader and executive, and how he regards the rights and authority of parents, and from that how he regards the public and their independence as adults making adult decisions.
Nor has he apologized for or regretted some of those key mistakes.
You quoted one part of an “or” clause. The first part quoted isn’t that “easy”, unless of course you didn’t mind vaccines, but when you went to get the vaccine, the doctor noted that you were allergic and therefore shouldn’t take it, and then it’s easy.
The SECOND clause is relatively easy. You get the form, you fill it out, you sign it in front of a notary, you mail it in, and you are exempt.
And IF the EO had gone into force, it called for an EASIER process, which would put the exemption itself online.
If you only pay attention to half of something, you don’t get the full picture.