thevaccinereaction--2020-06-15--Virginia Legislature Gives CDC, Board of Health Power to Mandate Vaccines for School Children

In the 2020 Legislative session , the Virginia Legislature passed H.B.1090 , a bill that amended a law requiring children attending public and private schools in the state to receive vaccines ( § 32.1-46 .
Immunization of patients against certain diseases ) .1 Virginia Delegate Patrick Hope ( D-Arlington ) was the lead sponsor of H.B .
1090 introduced on Jan. 8 , 2020 , which proposed to automatically mandate that children enrolled in daycare or school receive all current and future vaccines recommended by the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices ( ACIP ) .
The final bill , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ granted Governor-appointed members of the Virginia Board of Health the authority to add federally recommended vaccines to the schedule required for school attendance with the exception of the annual influenza vaccination .
The bill included an exemption from the requirements of Article 2 of the Administrative Process Act ( § 2.2-4006 et seq .
of the Code of Virginia ) , effectively blocking Virginia citizens and elected legislators from participating in the decision-making process that creates new vaccine mandates for children .
Under the U.S. Constitution , duly elected representatives in state legislatures @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for state residents .
In handing the power to make vaccine laws to unelected members of a federal advisory committee and state Board of Health , the Virginia legislature has abdicated responsibility and accountability to constituents by cutting out elected representatives and the voters who elected them from the vaccine law making process.2 Although the new law provides for a 60-day public comment period after the Board of Health issues a Notice of Intended Regulatory Action to add a new vaccine to the required list for daycare and school attendance , the legislature @ @ @ @ @ @ @ where citizens can testify for or against the addition of a new vaccine mandate for children .
Under the new law , the state Board of Health composed of physicians and representatives of medical trade and pharmaceutical-related associations like the Medical Society of Virginia , Virginia Pharmacists Association , Virginia Nurses ’ Association,3 4 are expected to endorse vaccine use recommendations issued by members of the ACIP appointed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) .
The new law automatically adds up to 10 more doses of five @ @ @ @ @ @ @ including vaccines that the Virginia legislature previously voted against adding to the schedule , such as the very expensive meningococcal vaccine and HPV vaccine for boys.5 H.B .
1090 , as amended , was passed during a special session held by the state legislature on Apr .
22 , 2020 during the COVID-19 lockdown .
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam , MD signed the bill into law with an effective date of July 1 , 2021.6 H.B .
1090 was first heard in the House Health , Welfare and Institutions Sub-Committee on Jan. 21 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ grandparents , nurses , doctors and scientists lined up to speak in opposition to the bill .
After the committee Chairman announced that the total amount of time allocated for those speaking in opposition to the bill would be limited to 10 minutes , the majority of people waiting to testify in opposition to the bill were denied the opportunity to speak .
Despite driving and waiting in long lines for hours , Virginia voters were shut out of the law-making process contrary to state legislative policy which states that , “ meetings @ @ @ @ @ @ @ law to be open to the public .
Citizen testimony in committee and subcommittee is encouraged.
” 7 The committee majority placed no time restrictions on those speaking in favor of the bill that would automatically mandate every vaccine the CDC recommends for all children , currently and in the future .
After a limited number of citizens spoke out against the bill , including those who described how their once healthy children regressed into chronic poor health or died after doctors administered CDC recommended vaccines to them , Delegate Dawn Adams ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ practitioner stated matter-of-factly : There was an audible gasp in the room after Adam ’ s remark .
It was a slap in the face to every parent who traveled to Richmond that day on behalf of a child who died after vaccination or whose children are suffering every day with vaccine injuries that will never go away .
Effectively decreeing that the sacrifice of some children is necessary to implement the proposed new law , the committee members moved on to other bills .
However , no one who attended the hearing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the cold admission by those voting for the bill that some children will be harmed by a one-size-fits-all vaccination law that requires parents to choose between risking their children ’ s lives or giving them a school education .
After passing out of the House Health Committee on Jan. 28 , the bill moved to the House Appropriations Subcommittee .
Testimony was not limited for those in favor of the bill , while those opposed to the bill were allowed only 10 minutes each to speak and no testimony was permitted from individuals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hearing .
As the bill moved through the other committees in the House , testimony was only allowed from supporters of the bill , while those in opposition to the bill were denied the opportunity to speak at all .
On Feb. 10 , 2020 , HB 1090 was passed by the House of Delegates with a vote of 55 in support and 44 opposed before it moved on to the Senate.8 The Senate Health Subcommittee , which allowed 10 minutes of total testimony in opposition to the bill , was the final @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But the bill was passed by the full Health Committee , Appropriations Committee and full Senate without taking public testimony from any member of the Commonwealth who opposed the bill .
Concerned parents with their children and other concerned citizens attempted to meet with Senators , packing the Senate halls for days , in an effort to voice their opposition to the escalating numbers of vaccines being required for daycare and school .
On Mar .
2 , 2020 , hundreds of protestors rallied in opposition on the Capitol grounds before the bill @ @ @ @ @ @ @ For and Against Bill Debate The full Senate debated the bill amongst themselves for approximately one hour .
There were three amendments proposed and one adopted .
During the debate , retired Naval Officer Senator John Cosgrove ( R-District 14 ) acknowledged that ; We had a lot of people come by our offices , and in the Capital who have been very concerned about what we are doing here .
Now let me make this straight to everybody , these people are not crazy .
They are not flat- earthers These people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anyone else on this floor and I mean anybody because they studied , they looked at it and they researched it .
And some are genuinely frightened for the welfare of their children .
For us to be pushing further and further into their parental decisions for their children not our children but their children , I think is a terrible imposition…these are some very intelligent , well educated people .
I really hope that we will listen to mothers and fathers and let them decide for themselves and their families how to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ contrast , Senator Dick Saslaw ( D-35th District ) belittled constituents who met with him to express their opposition to the bill ; There were a ton of moms who showed up all with their kids in opposition to it .
Those people who spoke in favor of it were a group of various doctors representing various aspects of the medical profession .
Let me repeat that , the people supporting this bill are the people who have to deal with these diseases .
All of the emails and support I ’ ve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over the commonwealth and people who deal with diseases .
Well , you say these people know what is best for their kids .
In theory that may be right , except for the fact that they are not only putting their own kids in jeopardy but they are putting other people ’ s kids in jeopardy as well .
Saslaw implied that mothers could not possibly have the knowledge or experience of the experts with medical degrees .
Many of the parents prepared to testify in opposition to the bill were doctors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other college graduates , some of whom witnessed their children regress into chronic poor health after vaccination .
However , leaders in control of committees effectively blocked opposing testimony from doctors and other medical professionals .
Despite a personal appeal to Senator Lillie Louise Boone Lucas ( D-18th District ) , chair of the Senate Health Committee , two doctors prepared to testify in opposition to the bill were denied the opportunity to speak .
Ultimately , parents of vaccine injured children and those whose children are vulnerable to harm from vaccination were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if it is safer for your child not to be vaccinated , you must put your child in harm ’ s way for “ the greater good ” in order for your child to receive a school education .
On Mar .
3 , 2020 , H.B .
1090 narrowly passed the Senate with a vote of 21 in support and 18 opposed .
The automatic adoption by state public health officials of all new federally recommended vaccines to the required list for children to attend school in the Commonwealth without input from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ concerning because COVID-19 vaccines are being fast tracked to licensure .
While it normally takes 15 to 20 years to develop a vaccine , a vaccine for COVD-19 may be on the market by this September and federally recommended for use by all children and adults in 2021.9 Dr. Dan Barouch , a virologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston said ; To create coronavirus vaccines , vaccine manufacturers are using recombinant DNA , messenger RNA ( mRNA ) , nanoparticle and novel adjuvant technology , most of which has never @ @ @ @ @ @ @ For example , Moderna , Inc. in partnership with NIAID is developing a COVID-19 vaccine that will inject human cells with mRNA , usually within lipid nanoparticles , to stimulate cells in the body to become manufacturers of viral proteins .
Inovio ’ s DNA vaccine uses electricity to deliver optimized DNA to the cells of the body.11 GSK and Sanofi are also developing an experimental COVID-19 vaccine in collaboration with the U.S. government that will combine GSK ’ s oil adjuvant AS03 that was included in their H1N1 influenza vaccine , Pandemrix @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vaccine technology used by Sanofi Pasteur in their quadrivalent influenza vaccine , FluBlok.12 GSK ’ s Pandemrix vaccine , which was distributed in Europe during 2009/2010 , has been linked to narcolepsy , especially in children.13 14 15 Will an experimental coronavirus vaccine that was rushed to market be mandated for all Virginia school children after the CDC recommends it for every child ?
Because a law was passed in 2020 that allows state public health officials to automatically add every CDC recommended vaccine to the list of vaccines required for daycare and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by elected representatives in the legislature—it appears that the answer is “ yes .
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