Rockland County Executive Ed Day held a press conference earlier today to announce that he had declared a “state of emergency” regarding the New York state county’s 153 cases of measles over a 6-month period, and placed a ban on all children under the age of 18 from appearing in any public area, which includes schools, malls and places of worship.
Mr. Day said that this was the “first such effort of this kind nationally.”
The emergency ban is clearly targeted towards parents of unvaccinated children, as Mr. Day stated:
Parents will be held accountable if they are found to be in violation of this state of emergency act. And the focus of this effort is on the parents of these children. We are urging them once again, now with the authority of law, to get your children vaccinated.
Mr. Day tried to downplay fears of police checkpoints and random checks for vaccination status, but he also stated that any parent found to be not in compliance with the emergency order would be referred to the district attorney’s office for possible prosecution.
If we have a situation where it comes to our attention that a parent is willingly, knowingly, not allowing a child to be vaccinated, under the emergency order, it will be referred into the district attorney.
The Rockland County Health Department, who recommended the emergency ban, has reportedly been going door to door and calling homes within the community in an effort to deal with the measles “epidemic.”
Day was critical of those who did not welcome the home visitations:
Our inspectors have begun to meet increasing resistance from those they are trying to protect.
Our health inspectors have been hung up upon or told not to call again. They’ve been told “we’re not discussing this – do not come back,” when visiting the homes of infected individuals as part of their investigations.
This kind of response is not acceptable, and frankly, irresponsible.
It is extremely difficult for our department of health to do their jobs when people refuse to cooperate with our investigators and fail to notify doctors when they are sick.
The Health Department and County Executive Ed Day plan to introduce legislation that would apparently make such a ban permanent in Rock County:
We’re in the process of drafting a local law to provide for the protection of county residents and visitor[s] in the events of outbreaks of communicable diseases for consideration of our partners in government the Rockland County legislature.
We owe this to the residents of our community so that we never have to go through this again.
During the question period of the news conference, someone asked a question about the possibility of legal challenges to the ban based on religious objections. Most of the measles outbreaks in Rockland County have occurred in Jewish communities, where travelers from Israel have allegedly been infected with the measles there.
Also, New York is one of the states in the U.S. that allows religious exemptions to vaccines by law.
Mr. Day was rather adamant in his reply:
First of all, let’s be clear about something, there is no religious exemption. The fact that we got nearly 17,000 young people immunized in a largely Orthodox (Jewish) community tells us it is not a religious exemption.
When the Council of Rabbis says to us they want children immunized, it tells us it is not a religious exemption. When a hundred Rabbis in the community work with us to get people immunized, it tells us it is not a religious exemption.
I’m a Christian. I know of nothing in my religion that says there is an issue.
So apparently, the county does not plan on honoring the New York State’s legal religious exemptions.
When confronted with more specific questions about the MMR vaccine, such as one person who asked if the MMR vaccine was for the correct strain of measles currently being found in the community, Mr. Day chose to criticize those who had suffered from vaccine injuries, claiming a higher moral ground for “the greater good” of society:
If you are going to People Magazine, and Jenny McCarthy for your medical advice, then you need to start re-examining your life.
There’s risk in everything.
Could there have been a child or a few children who have been compromised by a vaccination? Of course there could be.
But there’s something called ‘The Greater Good’ here. Society has to come to an understanding at some point, that we have a responsibility to the greater good of the community.
Another question posed by reporters was why the ban only included children, when obviously adults in the community are also not fully vaccinated with the MMR vaccine, or had been vaccinated many years earlier where the vaccine would have worn off by now.
The reply was simply that the majority of the measles outbreaks were among children under 18.
Several other county officials joined Ed Day at the press conference, including Rockland County Social Services Commissioner Joan Silvestri who oversees the county’s Child Protection Services (CPS).
Does this mean parents face losing their children to CPS if they refuse to vaccinate their children?
Rockland County Executive Ed Day can be contacted here.
Poster Comment:
Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated. /s
#1: misterwhite To: hondo68 (#0)
This is America, dammit!
misterwhite posted on 2019-03-27 09:07:13 Reply Private Reply
#2: sneakypete To: hondo68 (#0)
The parents are adults and have the right to be fools if that's what makes them happy,but even parents do NOT have the right to needlessly endanger their children just because they are paranoid loons living in the past.
sneakypete posted on 2019-03-27 10:20:09 Reply Private Reply
#3: Liberator To: misterwhite (#1)
Right. ESPECIALLY if those native children contract the diseases FROM ILLEGAL INVADERS TO BEGIN WITH. (Why do you think we suddenly are inundated with cases of long-eliminated diseases in the US UNTIL recently??)
THE problem is actually the result of a government that refuses to interfere in stopping the illegal invasion AND deportation of Illegals.
THAT is really the problem. Will you admit it?
This is America, dammit!
Nope. May be YOUR Police State "America," but it's not the one I knew.
Liberator posted on 2019-03-27 11:14:27 Reply Private Reply
#4: Hondo68 To: sneakypete, superdisease incubator, clear and present danger (#2)
You're a danger to America. My experienced immune system can fight off your attacks, but infants and children might not be able to.
You & misterwhite attack the weakest and most vulnerable with your newly incubated super disease germs. Pathetic.
Hondo68 posted on 2019-03-27 12:08:51 Reply Private Reply
#5: Hondo68 To: Liberator, misterwhite, demostic terrorist, bio-weapon developer (#3)
Back in the good old days people had a lot more common sense.
PINGing misterwhite to my other post above.
Hondo68 posted on 2019-03-27 12:23:54 Reply Private Reply
#6: Liberator To: hondo68, misterwhite, sneakypete (#4)
True and true.
Additionally, small children and infants are administered MULTIPLE vaccine at once. This has been proven to *create* chronic disabilities and illness. SUCH AS:
*One in six children in the US has a learning disability
*Over 50% suffer from some type of chronic illness.
*Cancer is the leading cause of death in our children
*Autism rates have soared from 1 in 10,000 in 1990 to 1 in 68 today
SOURCE:
http://www.stopmandatoryvaccination.com/vaccine-dangers/
Liberator posted on 2019-03-27 12:57:24 Reply Private Reply
#7: Liberator To: hondo68, misterwhite, sneakypete, Deckard (#5)
You're 100% correct.
Back in the old days, Common Sense was the default position of most people. That was until the late 60s, when Big Daddy Gummint began its agenda to control all facets of life, including the hijacking of public schools, colleges...AND of course, simple Common Sense.
We are commanded to consciously and subconsciously believe THE narrative, disinfo, and propaganda we've been fed our whole lives.
Q: Why don't "smart" people start asking why ALL OF A SUDDEN "Vaccines!!" are such an issue today? And why the Media onslaught?
If there's anything most LF posters and lurkers should know about the "Vaccine!!!" issue, it's that this isn't about a Gummint and Media and AMA who are worried about disease and epidemics; It's about POLITICS.
PROPER ILLEGAL INVADER VETTING ELIMINATES ALL potential "Disease-Epidemics."
What do you think the purpose of Ellis Island was? QUARANTINE.
The Willy-Nilly Un-vetting of Illegal Invasion of Millions isn't sloppy; It's with purpose and by design. Importing Illegals and their diseases is an ongoing Operation and further attempt to control the people. BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.
Liberator posted on 2019-03-27 13:14:37 Reply Private Reply
#8: misterwhite To: hondo68 (#5)
Common sense had nothing to do with it. That clip was from 1959. The measles vaccine wasn't licensed until 1963.
misterwhite posted on 2019-03-27 14:32:36 Reply Private Reply
#9: misterwhite To: Liberator (#6)
If your child has a disability, you're eligible for all kinds of government assistance. What's the biggest source of monthly cash for the nation’s poorest families? Nope, not welfare. Child disability checks.
So it's in their interest to get their child diagnosed with some sort of disability to get their hands on that money. One in 68 with autism, my ass.
misterwhite posted on 2019-03-27 14:43:35 Reply Private Reply
#10: Hondo68 To: misterwhite, *The Two Parties ARE the Same* (#9)
The US taxpayer is subsidizing your Big Pharma drug pusher cult. And more taxpayer funds are used in Vaccine Court to pay off the victims of your drug crime induced injuries and death.
Remove the government protections for drug manafacturers and pushers so that they can go to jail, like Hillary.
Oh wait, Hillary is NOT going to jail for her crimes, and neither are the government approved drug pushers.
Crime DOES pay if you're in the D&R party.
Hondo68 posted on 2019-03-27 15:42:16 Reply Private Reply
#11: misterwhite To: hondo68 (#10)
OxyContin is only available by prescription. If it's being abused, it's being done illegally.
Seems to me that's 100% the user's fault.
misterwhite posted on 2019-03-27 15:57:13 Reply Private Reply
#12: Hondo68 To: misterwhite, headRush Limbaugh (#11)
They're getting script from your physician, Dr. Feelgood.
100% legal, and stupid.
Hondo68 posted on 2019-03-27 16:11:40 Reply Private Reply
#13: misterwhite To: hondo68 (#12)
misterwhite posted on 2019-03-28 09:16:45 Reply Private Reply
#14: Liberator To: misterwhite (#9)
And THAT somehow compensates for a child whose life is affected by filthy, toxic vaccines forever as a result of gummint negligence, arrogance and corruption?
What's the biggest source of monthly cash for the nation’s poorest families? Nope, not welfare. Child disability checks.
IRRELEVANT. Man, you just don't get it, do you?
One in 68 with autism, my ass.
A gummint that "Cares about the children" -- my BIGGER azz.
Liberator posted on 2019-03-28 12:06:55 Reply Private Reply
#15: misterwhite To: Liberator (#14)
I'm saying that more and more parents are claiming their children are disabled because there's money to be made.
misterwhite posted on 2019-03-28 12:20:36 Reply Private Reply
#16: Liberator To: misterwhite (#15)
That may be so...But whose fault is it to begin with?? NOT the actual victims, who still ARE parents and children.
Your observation still doesn't change the vaccine dangers and crisis and lives that under-regulated toxic vaccine have destroyed or severely affected, does it?
Considering the record and wake of destruction, why should vaccines continue to be pushed and mandated?
Liberator posted on 2019-03-28 12:30:53 Reply Private Reply
#17: Hondo68 To: misterwhite (#15)
Mandatory vaccines are an evil solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
For the love of tyranny & money.
Hondo68 posted on 2019-03-28 13:56:18 Reply Private Reply
#18: misterwhite To: hondo68 (#17)
In the decade before 1963 when a vaccine became available, nearly all children got measles by the time they were 15 years of age. It is estimated 3 to 4 million people in the United States were infected each year.
Also each year, among reported cases, an estimated 400 to 500 people died, 48,000 were hospitalized, and 1,000 suffered encephalitis (swelling of the brain) from measles.
misterwhite posted on 2019-03-28 15:52:07 Reply Private Reply
#19: sneakypete To: hondo68 (#4)
Calling you an idiot is bragging on you. You are nothing but a paranoid fool with a personality disorder that insists you are smarter than everyone else in order to convince yourself to not commit suicide.
You can't off yourself because you are just too important to the survival of the world,right?
sneakypete posted on 2019-03-30 07:53:05 Reply Private Reply
#20: Hondo68 To: sneakypete, triggered by the truth (#19)
Your emoting doesn't change the facts.
Hondo68 posted on 2019-03-30 14:45:17 Reply Private Reply