Here are some truths. If you open your mind, and start thinking for yourself, you may be able to save your loved ones, because even if you don't care that children can't go to school unless they have all 74 shots required by the CDC (SB277), and not only will you not be able to use a personal belief or religious exemption, now children who are siblings of vaccine-injured children and children of parents who know that vaccines cause fatal and chronic adverse effects, will not be able to use their medical exemption (SB266/AB714). On top of that, the pharma-funded narrative that the brilliant and brave doctors writing these exemptions and recognizing the risk of vaccination (believe me, I know these doctors) will now be out of the picture. If they wrote the MEs before 2020 and have any disciplinary action against them (witch hunt by pharma), the MEs they wrote are VOID. Plus, they can't write any more, and no other doctor will write one again after this law in fear of being investigated. Try calling your regular doctor for an ME. They'll hang up on you or just say no, even if you had an adverse effect from your last vaccine. So it's blackmail. Meanwhile, those with voided MEs no longer can go to school. But soon, like the Jewish communities in Bronx, New York, the children won't be allowed in public places either. Sounds like Nazi, Germany, doesn't it? Joy is a friend of mine, and so brave for speaking out and sharing her frustration, not just for the families who are struggling with these fascist laws, but she has been speaking to our lawmakers. (Rep. Cunningham voted against SB266/AB714 with the rest of the Republicans BTW, our Dem lawmakers are all bought). You think you are confused with these laws? You are not alone. The new law has very strict guidelines for MEs. I have one son (once perfectly healthy) who has chronic, life threatening seizures from his MMRV and DTaP (age 5 shots). This is documented and proven by mainstream doctors, yet every time he goes to the ER or to get treatment, the nurses still want to give him a flu shot! WTF? UCSF even offered him one while he was hooked up to IVIG and also when he was on steroid treatment! He is immune-compromised, and now he's in special ed, which means he is automatically exempt from SB277. His brothers, who we no longer vaccinate, share the same gene mutation from the MMR. This was found when we went to get an ME from a doctor who is now being investigated for sticking up for my kids. Of course the law doesn't recognize family history and gene mutations. Our MEs will be voided. If I were to vaccinate them so they could attend school (over my dead body), they could have seizures too, and because of the 1986 Vaccine Law, we can't sue Pharma. Also, our medical records are no longer private. We would have to find another doctor to write another ME, and then a county health official, who is not our doctor, knowing nothing but what is written on the ME, will be deciding whether or not my children can go to school. Many people don't understand that our children's MEs are no longer good for life. They have expiration dates, checkpoints, and only apply to contraindications for specific vaccines: not all of them. So even if you swallowed all that BS about herd immunity, measles being deadly, and that vaccines are God's divine apology for screwing up on making faulty immune systems, and that vaccines aren't full of toxins: heavy metals, MSG, formaldehyde, human albumin, etc. you, your family, your friends, and every body in California will be forced vaccinated or quarantined in their own home. Soon. Healthy 2020. Look it up. Coming your way! If you don't care about our kids, since we're just a small minority "and probably won't effect the money schools get in attendance" when we drop out and homeschool (or move), at least recognize that we have NO MEDICAL FREEDOM anymore. California and New York are the testing grounds for the rest of the states. The guidelines have been written by pharmaceutical companies like Merck and Sanofi (through contributions to Senator Pan) with the ultimate goal of having every single American Citizen (vulnerable to the toxic side effects or not) 'up to date on their vaccines. Think about it. Are you, as an adult, up to date? How are you contributing to this idea of herd immunity? By next year Senator Pan wants every ADULT to be over-vaccinated as well. Another law that slipped through now allows the government to call any outbreak (be it the flu or the common cold) reason to come into our house and do whatever means necessary to control the outbreak. If that doesn't wake people up, I don't know what will.
Re: “Freedom 467 miles away: How a quest for a roller coaster ended up a delicious memory”
I don't normally comment on my own columns, but I feel the need to say I did write an article on Gather. It comes out on Thursday. As far as opinions in my column: Columns are allowed opinions, news article are not. I am not a news writer, I am a columnist, and as a food writer, I am hearing perhaps a different story than you. This business has been hurting and I hear how much it hurts them. They tell me all the time how much they want to say it in my column, but the public has not made it easy for them. And as far as the name caller is concerned, my son's doctor (the head of the brain center at his children's hospital) told me in February that the coronavirus was nothing to worry about and to carry on as normal. I keep waiting for the doctors and nurses we see on a regular basis to tell me otherwise, but they say COVID-19 is a running joke. They want their own kids back in school. I'm not sure if you are parents, but if you had a child with epilepsy or autism, who hasn't had school or accommodations for seven months, you might feel differently about keeping a promise to bring him to a roller coaster. Especially since the risk of dying from COVID is 0.034 for children and 1 in 19.1 million for most adults. That's a fatality rate less than the seasonal flu. Guess you haven't taken any weekend trips. Thanks for reading, and good luck with all that virtue signaling.