No Jab No Pay Con

Elly Prendergast posted on Facebook:
Just wondering if you all noticed what else they slipped under the table with this no jab no pay legislation. Did you think it was only about children under 7?? Like the media told you?? Well… It’s not. As part of this legislation the ‘childhood immunisation register’ has now been extended all the way up to age 20 (it was previously only to age 7) as of Jan 2016.
What does that mean? Well, a 20 year old is an adult now, aren’t they? How convenient. They just created a legal precedent for punishing and discriminating against all those who aren’t up to date with the ADULT register. And read a bit closer. By the end of 2016 there won’t even be a ‘childhood’ register anymore. It will simply be the ‘Australian Immunisation Register’.
Have a really good think about that people. This legislation now applies to ALL Australians of ALL ages. Think it’s gonna stop with cuts to child care and family tax?? Ha. Think again. Next will be cuts to all adult centrelink and other government (Medicare? Pensions? HECS?) payments and services for anyone who is not up to date with the adult schedule. Next will be workplace requirements, school, university. Think this didn’t affect you when you refused to stand for my human rights? Oops.
How many of YOU, even if you are ‘pro-vax’ when it comes to children, are up to date with your own adult vaccine schedule???? Guess what darlings, if you’re not (and apparently over 90% of Australians are not), that doesn’t make you pro-vax at all. It makes you pro-CHOICE. The very thing you stood against. And by all of your lobbying and supporting discriminatory legislation against a tiny few unvaccinated children, you just lost your own personal choice.
That was a bit of a stealthy manipulative government move wasn’t it? While the media had you emotionally focussed on whether 3% of kids are fully vaxxed or not, you didn’t even realise you just lost your OWN right to choose not to have every single shot on their list (and for that matter any other medical procedure or medication the government deems ‘necessary’).
It is estimated that most adults would need over 20 catch up vaccines to even be current. Still think this was actually about health, not a billion dollar power play by pharmaceutical companies coupled with an infringement on human rights?? Flu shot anyone? Blah. Goodbye freedom of choice for Australia (if you ever actually believed you had it).
Please think about what you stand for when you support victimisation, discrimination and loss of human rights. Because whether you’d like to admit it or not, those things DO affect all of us.