LIHUE — Concerned Kauai citizens are gearing up for today’s public hearing on immunization and health requirements for school attendance, set to start at 2 p.m.
Located in the state Deparment of Health Kauai District Health Office conference room, at 3040 Umi Street in Lihue, the meeting is hosted by the DOH, and will run until 4 p.m.
Proposed changes to the requirements include the addition of six new vaccines to the list of required vaccinations: HPV (Human Papillomavirus Vaccine), MCV (Meningococcal Conjugate Vaccine), Tdap (Tetanus-diptheria-acellular pertussis), Hepatitis A, Influenza, Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) and rotavirus.
Currently, school children are required to be immunized for DTaP/DTP/Td (diphtheria/tetanus/pertussis), Polio, MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) Hepatitis B, Hib (Haemophilus influenzae type b) (for preschool attendance) and Varicella (chickenpox).
Several Kauai parents have already submitted testimony on the topic.
“The trend today is more and more people do not immunize because they see the results of damaged children and death,” said Toni Liljengren in testimony submitted to DOH and TGI. “We want to protect our basic, constitutional rights, and put an end to the travesty of toxic shots into humanity.”
She said she’s attending the meeting and submitting testimony because she’s worried about stricter rules on religious and medical exemptions and thinks there’s potential for those exemptions to disappear down the road.
“All’s I can tell you is it’s confused everyone,” Liljengren said. “We’re looking for clarity.”
Miguel Amador, of Kilauea, said Thursday he’s concerned because he watched California take steps toward mandatory vaccinations and said he’ll be at today’s meeting to stand up against that in Hawaii.
“It’s a business move, it’s not a health decision,” Amador said.
DOH maintains the goal is to bring immunization and examination requirements for school and child care facility attendance up to par with those recommended by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Those rules were last revised in 2001.
Parents can still opt out, even with proposed changes taken into account, due to religion or medical mandates, but those exemptions could be preempted in the case of an outbreak or potential outbreak, which has also always been within the rules.
Testimony on rule changes may be submitted orally or in writing during the public hearings. People who are not able to attend the hearing may submit written testimony to DOH by email to immunization@doh.hawaii.gov by Dec. 26 at 4 p.m.
For more information and to view the proposed rules, visit http://health.hawaii.gov/opppd/proposed-changes-to-department-of-health-administrative-rules-title-11/.
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Jessica Else, staff writer, can be reached at 245-0452 or jelse@thegardenisland.com.
It should be mandatory that ALL Kauai children to be inoculated prior to attending school. No exceptions should be allowed for personal or religious reasons. Let us not equivocate here: the very lives of our children are at stake. Measles deaths have DECREASED 84% since 2000, and worldwide over 20 million deaths were prevented because of the vaccine. Don’t be a fool, get your children vaccinated!
Vaccinations serve to protect my children as well as yours. The risks from vaccinations if very, very, small. The consequences of having too many children not vaccinated can be deadly.
This is VERY important!
First, because it is clear that SOME VACCINES help, while SOME VACCINES clearly are very dangerous.
As one who stood in line when entering US Navy to do my duty, while pneumatic guns put many vaccines into both my arms, and then i went into very sick days, as did many of my cohorts, I am totally against the kind of mindless injections of all kids and others.
On the other hand, as above, it is clear some vaccines are good…
What to do??
Please please please DO NOT MANDATE any vaccines FOR ALL.
Thank you.
Hold up- check that list of new vaccines- those are things like HPV and Hep A! Those aren’t things school kids need to be forced to be vaccinated against! This isn’t an anti vaccination thing- these requirements are genuinely overstepping its rights. The 6 vaccines they currently require I totally support but these new ones are simply ridiculous. Stop such intervention by the government!
True informed consent needs to be practiced and CDC needs to update their safety information on Aluminum. Choice is the only thing that should be mandatory, choice without taking away a civil right to free education. Educate. Vaccine injury is far more common than the narrative suggests.
Aloha Kakou,
Admit it…! You believed in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Ferry, so why not swallow more of the same. Blind Faith…believe in drugs, vaccines, something you know very little to nothing about, but you take the stories, thousands saved from Measles, yeah right, and you believe, obediah, haleluyah, you believe because the Blind Faith victim next to you believes.
Why was it back in the day when the measles, mumps, and chicken pox came to town, mothers would throw a children’s party so the Kids all got the childhood diseases, missed some days of school, yeah sick, but all developed lifetime immunity and never had to suffer those, diseases again, and if you got the diseases as adults when complications were horrible…and no one died who,got the childhood diseases, so why are they now?. It’s like the flu shot, many people still get the flu shot and too many get the flu die and they are the ones under medical care.
Immune strength does not come from mostly dead (let’s hope so) deadly diseases directly injected into your body coincidentally bypassing the first and subsequent natural lines of cellular defenses that the body has learned from time immemorial being challenged by live deadly “bugs” initially taking down early humans and our ancestors who over time adapted to the deadly bugs by increasing the virility of our immune system by repeated exposure to people’s strong bodies.
For example, to the thinkers…when the Hawaiians dropped like flies, in the presence of the Haoles with smallpox, smallpox that slayed the Hawaiians, why didn’t the haoles die just as swiftly? Because of their immune systems that had perhaps millenia of time adapting to smallpox and lots of other diseases that the Hawaiians never had exposure to. But the haoles had exposure and it was exposure to the live virile diseases not dead ones, and over time the haoles adapted to the diseases and many who got the diseases never even showed a single symptom.
Now you are probably saying well that proves the vaccines work. And they do, but not in the way you are thinking; look at the epidemic in post vaccine autism to the children who had prior exposure to these dead but still deadly virus and the mercury in the vaccine, and God knows what else, like strange laboratory manipulated proteins. Uneducated people call it the boogie man…and that’s why you are kept uneducated in spite of all that schooling, not a word about how your body works, why would they that hold that info from you…are they afraid you might turn your back on the medical system.
The bottom line is that the human immune system is personal, and you need to develop it into a system that kills live disease when they ente the body via your defensive immune system.
Why is it a flu or cold goes through a classroom or large office and only some people get sick. It’s because their immune system is functioning well, and those who get sick are not able to silently search and destroy and fully use their lock and key immune system and destroy and eliminate the “bugs” from their body the way the ones did who did not get sick.
Now here’s The kicker, the people who get sick.? The symptoms they get are actually the effects of their immune system in overdrive trying to expel the contagious “bugs” bringing on the symptoms that are the immune system trying to restore normalcy…but lack of education causes ignorant people to take drugs to mask their getting well symptoms and retard the getting well process.
Well this deserves pages more but alas night is beckoning sleep to keep my immune system strong.
By the way eating only live natural foods like no poison, no chemicals, no sugar on or in fruits and vegetable, legumes, beans, and grains, etc., does more for the strength of your immune system than any vaccine does
Children getting as much as 70 vaccines…macabre…is that from Dr. Joseph Mengele, the Nazi Ángel of Death in WWII.
Mahalo for reading
Charles
If a parent refuses to have a child inoculated and that child causes another child to become ill or die, the parent should be charged with a crime – possibly negligent homicide – and imprisoned.
Same goes the reverse…Two weeks after a person receives a vaccine, they shed and spread those disease cells ..So if that vaccinated child contaminates my vaccine free healthy child should you be charged with negligent homicide-and therefore imprisoned?
No it should not be mandatory! Nationwide the stats do not add up. My son was horribly damaged by the MMR vaccine and is now nine years of age. I suppose you would have to go through what we have to know what this feels like. I wouldn’t wish this mess on anyone. Vaccines need to be made safer & be a choice always. There IS supporting scientific evidence that many vaccines cause harm as the aren’t a one size fits all, that’s just plain logic. If the Oncologist told my mother to STOP using deodorants that have Aluminum in them because it was not safe. Why then would you allow your children to be injected w/ this? I have read through eight years of CDC/Gov docs on vaccine injury & death. I advise you do the same. I would never know what I do now had this not happened to my precious child.