"Progressives mandating Vaccines = the New Nazis"

Vaccinations have always been a topic of debate from the moment of their creation and implementation. Vaccinations were created with the goal of stopping and preventing the spread of numerous deadly diseases that had caused numerous epidemics around the world before a vaccination was implemented and thus caused the disease rate to decline drastically. The debate of whether to vaccinate or not has lead to an article on naturalnews.com to compare California legislatures to that of highly, experimental Nazi doctors. This article, published in 2018 cites SB277 law passed in California as a violation of the Nuremberg Codes, which were set after the discovery of what Nazi doctors were experimenting on Jewish prisoners.

The mandation of vaccination (SB277) removed personal belief exemptions and required vaccination for entry into private or public primary schools. It was passed in June 2015, yet, this anti-vaccination article was published in November 2018. The author starts the article, “As California’s forests are going up in flames, you might wonder whether the bureaucrats of California actually care about children at all.” A fire in which some 20+ people have lost their lives in. He then quickly switches to the idea that if legislatures did care about children that  they wouldn’t be forcing these “dangerous, deadly” vaccinations. The author continues that by mandating these vaccines legislatures are violating the Nuremberg codes that were associated with Nazi era Germany. The codes are strictly related to the ethics of experimenting on humans that were specifically associated with Nazi doctors during the second world war and their racial hygiene experiments conducted within concentration camps.

Vaccinations have had vigorous testing done before they are released to the public. They are designed with the goal of preventing the spread of dangerous and deadly diseases. Yes, vaccinations do come with an array of various levels of side-effects but the most severe side-effects occur at a miniscule rate. The specific mandate in California was implemented after an outbreak of measles at Disneyland and due to low vaccination rates in some towns throughout the state. These vaccinations though are not comparable to the Nuremberg Codes and what they specifically related to. Vaccines have been experimented and highly tested for many years and have known side-effects and bring about an overall positive result of prevention of the spread of deadly disease; while, the Codes related to unethical treatment upon humans where doctors and scientists had one goal in mind of creating an Aryan race among other disastrous experiments. Also, this law is mandated for entry into primary and secondary schools where children interact and spread sickness to each other at a high rate; the Codes, however, are related to people who were restrained and had no consent on what was done. California, a highly populated and attractive destination for tourists around the world had the goal of mandating vaccination to prevent the epidemic of a deadly disease. Vaccinations have been highly tested and are still being tested. The side-effects and risks are always told to the patient prior to receiving the vaccine. Having a say in vaccination is something that people should be free to express but to compare a law that mandates vaccine to codes related to racial medicine that was experimented on unwilling subjects during a time of war is not an appropriate link.

-Maddie Powers

https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-11-13-california-forced-vaccinations-a-blatant-violation-of-the-nuremberg-code.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Senate_Bill_277

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/vaccines-diseases.html