In 2017, the Rochester Public School Board decided to take seriously a state law that requires students to be vaccinated for diseases such as measles, mumps and even chicken pox, to the consternation of local antivaccine loons, of which there seems to have been a number (more than 70 had to be ordered to leave school). The requirements weren’t really strict: exemptions were available for those rejecting vaccinations for health or religious reasons, but parents would have to fill out paperwork, something that apparently required too much investment in their children’s well-being or was too mentally challenging for some.
Local antivaxx mom Kayla Dee was one such. Angry with the law, Dee explained that“my religious beliefs are if you get sick with something, it’s part of your plan in life. So, why get the vaccinations to try to prevent it? Yeah those diseases are going to suck if you get them, but if you live through them, great! If you don’t, that’s your plan in life. Also, medically, it’s against my beliefs because who really know what’s in these vaccinations?” Well, weknow precisely what’s in the vaccines, but a much more pertinent question is: Why does Dee care, given her general view on medicine?
The scariest thing of all is that, in the present situation, Dee decided that she would be homeschooling her children while she fights against the state law. And she is allowed to that.
Diagnosis: No, this is not satire. Really. That she is even allowed to be in the vicinity of children is preposterous.