Vaccination Exemption Form - And the History of Inoculation

The Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia - Last update 17 January 2018

In 1855, Massachusetts became the first U.S. state to require vaccination for schoolchildren. At that time, only smallpox vaccine was available. Other states and localities began to pass similar regulations, though the rules were often only spottily enforced.

England had been more aggressive in mandating vaccination: the Compulsory Vaccination Act of 1853 required infants born in England and Wales to be vaccinated for smallpox, though it allowed an exemption for “those unfit for vaccination.” An 1871 expansion of the law tightened enforcement of the requirement. However, objections to compulsory vaccination led to an active, organized anti-vaccination movement.

The British Vaccination Act of 1898 provided a conscience clause to allow exemptions to mandatory smallpox vaccination. This clause gave rise to the term “conscientious objector,” which later came to refer to those opposed to military service. By the end of 1898, magistrates had issued more than 200,000 vaccination exemptions.

Today in the United States, all states require that children be vaccinated for certain diseases before school entry (the required immunizations vary by state). A variety of exemptions are allowed, depending on state and local regulations. Mississippi and West Virginia offer only medical exemptions to vaccination. In other states, medical, religious, and often philosophical/personal belief exemptions are available. The California legislature passed a law in 2015 that eliminates non-medical exemptions; this will go into effect in mid-2016.

Medical Exemptions

All 50 states allow children to be exempted from vaccination requirements for medical reasons. These reasons generally include the following situations:

• The child’s immune status is compromised by a permanent or temporary condition. For example, the child might have a congenital condition leading to an impaired immune system. Or, the child might take medications, such as chemotherapy or steroids, that impair the immune system. In either case, vaccination could be harmful to the child’s health.
• The child has a serious allergic reaction to a vaccine component.
• The child has had a prior serious adverse event related to vaccination.

Religious Exemptions

Forty-eight states allow exemptions to vaccination for religious reasons (though this number will drop to 47 once California's legislation goes into effect in mid-2016). Some states statutes indicate that to receive a religious exemption, a family must belong to a religious group with bona fide objections to vaccination. They may, as Iowa does, ask a parent to attest that "immunization conflicts with a genuine and sincere religious belief and that the belief is in fact religious, and not based merely on philosophical, scientific, moral, personal, or medical opposition to immunizations." Other states simply require that a parent sign a form stating that he or she has religious objections to vaccination.

Several legal cases involving the constitutionality of religious exemptions to vaccination have been tried. The rulings have in general upheld the right of states to mandate vaccination in spite of parents’ religious beliefs. At the same time, courts have often found that requiring parents belong to certain religious groups to qualify for religious exemptions violates the Constitution’s Equal Protection clause. The argument is that the Equal Protection clause should protect all people who claim a religious objection to vaccination, not only those who belong to a certain religion with recognized objections.

Personal Belief Exemptions

Twenty states allow exemptions to children whose parents have philosophical or personal belief objections to vaccination (Vermont and California will be removed from this list when legislation that eliminates the exemption goes into place in mid-2016). In most cases, parents must file a one-time or annual form with a school district attesting to a personal objection to vaccination. In states with all three types of exemptions, personal belief exemptions tend to be most common. And, in states that allow philosophical and personal exemptions from vaccination requirements, such exemptions increased from 0.99 to 2.45% between 1991 and 2004.

A Washington state law that took effect in July 2011 requires that parents seeking vaccination exemptions for their children discuss the benefits and risks of vaccination with a health care provider. The state allows medical, religious, and personal belief exemptions, and has an overall exemption rate of 5.2% in the 2014-15 school year. California and Oregon in recent years have enacted similar requirements.

Implications for Disease Outbreaks

Overall, vaccination rates in the United States remain high. But many experts are wondering what the effect will be on public health of increasing numbers of children being exempted from vaccination. Some point to the increasing measles incidence that emerged in England after a study (published in 1998 but since withdrawn) proposed an association between MMR vaccination and autism. Vaccination rates in England dropped in response, from more than 90% to 80% or lower. Measles cases, meanwhile, began to rise. While only 56 cases were confirmed in Wales and England in 1998, 1,843 were confirmed by 2013.

One U.S. study showed that children with nonmedical vaccination exemptions were 35 times more likely to contract measles than vaccinated children. Another study showed a similar risk with pertussis (whooping cough). And several measles epidemics have been traced to religious communities that do not commonly practice vaccination. In Philadelphia in 1990-91, nine children died from measles centered in a religious community that shunned vaccination.

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An ACT to amend the New York State public health law, in relation to enacting the "Philosophical Exemption To Immunizations Act"

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2015/S1536

Sample Request For Religious Exemption To Immunization - State of New York

http://www.p12.nysed.gov/sss/documents/modelreligousexemptionformMarch2016.pdf

Religious Exemption Form to Immunization - State of New York

http://www.p12.nysed.gov/sss/documents/modelproceduresMarch2016.pdf

Unlock The Unlimited Power of Your Mind

-By Dr. Joe Dispenza - March 21, 2019

If those subconscious thoughts can cause you to NOT take action, to MISS your greatest opportunities, to DOUBT and SHAME yourself, to cause STRESS and ANXIETY, just IMAGINE what a transformation you can make in your own life if you are able to take control of your subconscious mind and replace those thoughts with thoughts that SERVE you.

Most people are waiting for an EXTERNAL element to take away the guilt, sadness, depression, and stress. But the secret to happiness and fulfillment is WITHIN YOU! In this episode, Dr. Joe Dispenza shares the secrets to training your body and your mind to experience success before it even happens! Find out how to leave your guilt, pain, and anxiety in the past so you can TRANSFORM YOUR IDENTITY and CHANGE YOUR LIFE!

It is time to release the negative emotions of the past so you can finally reclaim power back over your life. It is time to stop looking for success and start BEING success. Become more fulfilled, more empowered, fill yourself with self-love and manifest the exact things you are seeking.

Dr. Dispenza is an expert in teaching people the healing power of the mind, through his incredible techniques. He is mind, body, and heart connection expert. He has mastered the convergence of neuroscience, epigenetics, and quantum physics.

Dr. Dispenza has been teaching people of the world how to empower and heal utilizing the power of mind through meditation. His studies have proven that when well practiced these tools can put us on the path to understanding and breaking deep-rooted bad habits and even heal illnesses. As a NY Times best-selling author, Dr. Joe has written You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter (Hay House, 2014), which explores our ability to heal without drugs or surgery, but rather by thought alone.

He has also written Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One (Hay House, 2012) and Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind (2007), both of which detail the neuroscience of change and epigenetics.

"One of my favorite things to do is to demystify the mystical. I love to take abstract concepts and begin to use science as the contemporary language of mysticism – to make it practical enough that every single person has at their very fingertips the ability to apply it to some aspect of their life." - Dr. Joe Dispenza

Check out Joe Dispenza's free meditation course here: https://drjoedispenza.com

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Published: December 06, 2021

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When a cancer biologist approached Dr Joe at a Week Long Advanced Retreat to share her own story of transformation, he brought her onstage to share her story with our community. In a powerful conversation, they talk about science, trust, overcoming fear, and how nothing changes … until we change.

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5G Wireless Radiation Dangers

Joe Friendly - Published on May 7, 2017

5G millimeter wave radiation dangers described by expert. These small cel transmitters will be located near every 2 to 10 homes, exposing families to harmful, carcinogenic, neurotoxic, and genotoxic wireless radiation.

Lethal levels of microwaves are filling our living space as a corrupt FCC facilitates an epidemic of brain cancer in our youth and other horrors to unfold. Our physiology is vulnerable to microwaves.! Wifi, wireless home phone, smart meters, WLAN, and now 5th Generation 5G will flood our environment even more: Lethal Levels!

Cellphones are known to increase the rate of breast cancer when stored in bras and shirt pockets, testicular cancer when carried in pants pockets and the FCC lets it go on because they're former hirelings of the industries they're supposed to regulate in the public interest. They have not addressed the dangers here revealed, that other countries have already appropriately dealt with.

Human beings are bioelectrical systems. Our hearts and brains are regulated by internal bioelectrical signals. Environmental exposures to artificial EMFs can interact with fundamental biological processes in the human body. In some cases, this may cause discomfort, or sleep disruption, or loss of wellbeing (impaired mental functioning and impaired metabolism) or sometimes, maybe it is a dread disease like cancer or Alzheimer’s disease. It may be interfering with ones’ ability to become pregnant, or carry a child to full term, or result in brain development changes that are bad for the child. It may be these exposures play a role in causing long-term impairments to normal growth and development of children, tipping the scales away from becoming productive adults. We have good evidence these exposures can damage our health, or that of children of the future who will be born to parents now immersed in wireless exposures.

In the United States, the deployment of wireless infrastructure (cell tower sites) to support cell phone use has accelerated greatly in the last decades. The spread of cell towers in communities, often placed on pre-school, church day-care, and school campuses means that young children can have thousands of times higher RF exposures in home and school environments than existed even 20-25 years ago. CTIA estimates that in 1997 there were only 36,650 cell sites in the US; but increased rapidly to 131,350 in June 2002; 210,350 in June 2007 and 265,561 in June 2012 (CTIA, 2012). About 220,500 cell sites existed in 2008. These wireless antennas for cellular phone voice and data transmission produce whole-body RFR exposures over broad areas in communities that are an involuntary and unavoidable source of radiofrequency radiation exposure. Further, the nearly universal switch to cordless and cell phones, and away from corded landline phones means close and repetitive exposures to both EMF and RFR in the home. Other new RFR exposures that didn’t exist before come from WI-FI access points (hotspots) that radiate 24/7 in cafes, stores, libraries, classrooms, on buses and trains, and from personal WI-FI enabled devices (iPads, tablets, PDAs, etc).

The largest single source of community-wide, pervasive RFR yet rolled out is the ‘smart meter’ infrastructure. This program places a wireless device (like a mini-mobile phone base station) on the wall, replacing the electromechanical (spinning dial) meter. They are to be installed on every home and classroom (every building with an electric meter). Utilities from California to Maine have installed tens of millions already, despite health concerns of experts and enormous public resistance. The wireless meters produce spikes of pulsed radiofrequency radiation 24/7, and in typical operation, will saturates living space at levels that can be much higher than already reported to cause bioeffects and adverse health effects (utilities can only say they are compliant with outdated federal safety standards, which may or may not always be true – see http://sagereports.com/smart-meter-rf). These meters, depending on where they are placed relative to occupied space in the home or classroom, can produce RFR exposure levels similar to that within the first 100 feet to 600 feet of a mobile phone base station (cell tower).

The cumulative RFR burden within any community is largely unknown. Both involuntary sources (like cell towers, smart meters and second-hand radiation from the use of wireless devices by others) plus voluntary exposures from ones’ personal use of cell and cordless phones, wireless routers, electronic baby surveillance monitors, wireless security systems, wireless hearing aids, and wireless medical devices like implanted insulin pumps all add up. No one is tallying up the combined exposure levels. Billions of new RFR transmitters from the smart meter rollout alone will raise the baseline RFR levels, and will significantly add to the existing RFR background.

Sometimes, science does not keep pace with new environmental exposures that are by-products of useful things we want to buy and use in society. So, the deployment runs ahead of knowledge of health risks. It is an old story. This is the case for EMF and RFR, and this Report underscores the critical need to face difficult questions, make mid-course corrections, and try to repair the damage already done in this generation, and to think about protecting future generations.

The Truth About Wi-Fi Wireless and Cellphone Electromagnetic Ionizing Radiation:
https://venusproject.org/home/the-truth-about-electromagnetic-radiation-emr.html

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U.S. Senate MOBILE NOW Act - Science, Technology, Communications:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/19

H.R.686 - DIGIT Act:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/686

New York State Senate Bill S19:
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/s19

5G Licensed to Kill. The Insect Inspector investigates what you are not being told about the 5G grid

mickeytwonames - Published on Jan 28, 2019

5G is a buzzword for the digitally connected world some see as the future of mankind - it comes with risks -  the most immediate being that it will be the most effective pesticide since DDT. The Insect Inspector explains how this runaway untested global experiment may kill us all.

Simply put, the 30-year radiation from millions of cellular phone masts is the single factor present in every region of insect decline.  With the imminent addition of 5G pollution, the situation is about to get much worse. Rather than ridiculing this idea, independent experts from around the world sent me evidence to prove It. They cited papers, experiments, and surveys to show that wireless tech is damaging the ecosphere. Insects are like the canary in the coal mine. Their slump in numbers is a warning to us all. In short, 5G poses a catastrophic threat to bugs the world over.

This video is a warning notice so public officials can no longer plead ignorance when rubber stamping its roll-out.  5G is a buzz word for connecting every 'smart' wireless device. The phone, software and internet giants aka Big Wireless are in a bid to dominate society with the Internet of Things - that means controlling as many of your gadgets as they can harvest your profile data from.  It is also a push to build a world of industrious robots, automated vehicles and a population of addicted phone Zombies. We are being softened up to accept 5G as "inevitable." Across the media, it is being sold as "game-changing - the next big thing." What no one tells you is how much of a dangerous gamble it is to expose everything on the planet to untested ultra-high-frequency microwave radiation at an unprecedented intensity.  

The 5G grid, a follow-on,  not a replacement for the wireless network we now use, is being built by a powerful self-regulating industry that tolerates no restraint nor criticism. Big Wireless claims 5G is a safe technology on which to build the digital society they want us to connect to. Let me outline the side effects that no one is prepared to talk about but are unavoidable.    G5 devices use very high electromagnetic frequencies. Ubiquitous transmitters, planned for every school, shop, and neighbourhood, will generate billions of millimetre length waves. These signals will be the same size as most insects creating an electrical charge between the two. The energy flow also pulses creating tiny shockwaves that damage eyes, wings, antennae, and other delicate body parts.

5G communications have to be powerful enough to penetrate buildings so with nowhere to hide and under relentless bombardment, insects, trapped in an environmental microwave oven, will simply cook. Despite the evidence that 5G is an environmental hazard, the body that regulates Big Wireless has been hijacked by those it is supposed to regulate.  It has gained powers and brought influence to steamroller anyone opposed to its impatience to be the first to market. With Governments everywhere lobbied with biased data, the benefits of the 5G Grid are purposely overblown and the drawbacks hidden.  No tests have been run for potential damage to the environment  - a failing that goes against the UN's Precautionary Principle. A risk analysis put in place after it was proved the asbestos and tobacco industries concealed known risks and dangers. Radiation levels will be100 times above the standards agreed 20 years ago. 5G safety standards are unfit for purpose.

We live with wireless tech in our pockets. There is Wifi in our homes already claiming to be 5G - it is not. It is a dupe to make the term acceptable. So dismissing the link of insect decline to invisible wireless radiation is an easy option.  But all the signs point to a strong connection between the two. From bugs to birdsong, small things disappearing easily escape our notice, but Insects make our life possible. Their destruction breaks a vital in the food chain.  We are not going to give up the convenience of hand-held devices, but we are being hustled into expensive enslavement where we pay for the privilege of being monitored. Make no mistake when all the 5G cells are connected our children will be living in a global airport body scanner 24/7.

It's critical to postpone the rollout of what scientists, environmental groups, doctors and citizens see as a potentially toxic infrastructure without a public debate. We must not blindly accept every technological development especially one we are tricked into thinking as Green. Wireless tech gobbles up a whopping 10% of the world's electricity consumption.  Let us not sleepwalk towards an insect armageddon that may herald our own.

David Icke - Culling The Population

David Icke - Published on May 14, 2018