Online anti-vaxxers, conflating Covid and MMR theories, are convincing parents against immunising their children

  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    The easiest way to enforce this is via schools, make it mandatory for children to be vaccinated if they want to go to school. That’ll get the holistic middle class nutters vaccinated in no time.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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        1 year ago

        It’s quite uncommon in the UK. They won’t homeschool their kids, they have jobs and careers themselves the only people who tend school kids are the lower working class who typically have a parent who doesn’t work and can therefore do it.

        It’s not common for the middle class parents to homeschool their kids. Then the upper classes don’t do it because although they could afford to have a teacher invariably it’s looked down on something only the poor people do.

        • HeartyBeast@kbin.socialOP
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          Agreed. I live in the UK, I was a school governor. You are, however giving these middle class folk who are deep down the rabbit hole an incentive to move to home schooling - or possibly to organise into independent “home school schools”.

          Personally, I think compulsion is a poor way to convince people about public health measures. It may not work and is likely to lead to more conspiracy theory- we have to be smarter than that.