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A few vaccines that children should receive at a young age are: DPTP-Hib, tetanus, pertussis, polio, measles, hepatitis B, and many more. Vaccination children is the best way in order to protect ones child from deadly diseases that have been proven to kill children over the past hundred or so years. The reason vaccines are put in place is because of the history behind all of these diseases and causes of death in children, as well as the fact that you body can be immune to it as an adult because you kept up with the vaccines. Many people are not in 2019 choosing that vaccines serve no purpose, therefore they are choosing not to vaccine their children.

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There is an insane history on children giving other children diseases because one did not get vaccinated and one was not immune to the disease. This post is a bit inappropriate, but shows the anger in the voice of an individual whose sibling caught something because of another parents decision against vaccines. These diseases can be deadly, but in this case this young boy got brain damage and pertussis. Even though pertussis is not lethal, it is a contagious respiratory disease, one gets an uncontrollable violent cough and struggles to breathe.

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Here is the Ontario website stating that you must vaccine your child and show proof that they are vaccines before getting accepted to come into the school as a student. In here is a list of why you should vaccinate, where to get vaccines, preparing your child, and many other helpful ideas and concepts regarding the vaccination process. This has always been a law for Ontario. There are 9 specific diseases that children must be immunized against in order for the school to be safe and healthy for all other children.

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Why you should vaccinate

Infectious diseases can spread among children and adolescents at school who are not vaccinated. As a parent, you can keep your kids healthy with routine health care and vaccines. Make sure your school-age children are up-to-date with their vaccinations.

Infection from certain diseases can kill or seriously harm your child. Vaccines use weakened or killed virus or bacteria to trigger your child's natural immune response to provide long-term protection against a disease (without the risk of getting the disease). It is like a rehearsal for the immune system, so your child is prepared if they are exposed to the "real" disease.
Vaccinations are safe
Vaccinations do not cause autism.

Scientific studies and reviews continue to show no relationship between vaccines and autism.
What you should know about vaccine ingredients
Some people won't develop immunity to a disease after being vaccinated, but the vaccine itself cannot infect someone. If a vaccinated individual does contract a disease which they were vaccinated against, their illness will be less severe.

When to get vaccines for your school-age children

Between 4 and 6 years old, children should receive the following vaccines:

In grade 7, children should receive the following vaccines:

Between 14 and 16 years old, teens should receive the following vaccine:

Preparing your child for vaccines

Getting a vaccine can be stressful for some children. With some preparation and kid-friendly explanation, parents can help to make vaccine visits easier and less stressful. Talk to your health care provider or health unit if you have any questions about the vaccine your child will receive.

Prepare your child before the visit. Be honest. Explain that shots can pinch or sting, but that it won't hurt for long. Tell your child that vaccines are important to keep them healthy.
For younger children

Hold your child or cuddle them on your lap.

Use distractions like toys, bubbles, and books.

For older children

Older children can use distractions like games, books, music, and talking about something unrelated to the vaccination. Deep breathing and/or counting, as well as keeping the arm relaxed and still may help to make the shot easier.

For children getting their shots at school clinics, tell them to let the nurse know if they feel nervous about getting vaccinated or if they feel faint or light-headed before, during, or after the vaccination. The clinic staff can help them through the process.

Ask your health care provider or local public health unit about using topical anesthetics (medication that numbs the skin).

After the visit, talk to your child about their experience. Let them know that it is normal to feel some mild reactions- like soreness in the arm where the shot was given- that will go away after a day or two. Offer some extra attention if they are feeling discomfort. Praise and reinforce that they are making positive healthy choices. Contact your doctor if anything concerns you.

The law

Unless they have a valid exemption, children who attend primary or secondary school must be immunized against:

diphtheria

tetanus

polio

measles

mumps

rubella

meningitis (meningococcal disease)

whooping cough (pertussis)

chickenpox (varicella) - required for children born in 2010 or later

See the full list of recommended immunizations for your child.

As a parent, you must:

Children who do not get immunized are at increased risk of disease. They may be removed from school during a disease outbreak.

Exemptions

Under the Immunization of School Pupils Act, your child can be exempted from immunization for medical reasons or due to conscience or religious belief.

For medical reasons

You must fill out a Statement of Medical Exemption form that has been signed by a physician or nurse practitioner and submit it to your local public health unit. It will indicate the reason for the exemption, such as:

your child has a medical condition that prevents them from receiving the vaccine

there is evidence of your child's immunity to the disease, making further immunization unnecessary

For conscience or religious belief

Starting September 1, 2017, you'll need to:

Go to your local public health unit to complete an education session that covers:

Basic information about immunization

Vaccine safety

Immunization and community health

Immunization law in Ontario

At the end of the session, you'll receive aVaccine Education Certificate signed and dated by your public health unit.

Complete a Statement of Conscience or Religious Belief form and get it is signed by a commissioner for taking affidavits in Ontario.

Make copies of your certificate and your signed Statement of Conscience or Religious Belief form and submit the originals to your local public health unit (they will tell you how). It is important that you keep your copy because the ministry and local public health units do not keep records of your exemption documents.

Children in licensed daycare centres

If you want your child to attend daycare, and decide not to vaccinate them due to medical, religious or philosophical reasons, you will need to give your daycare a valid written exemption. If the disease appears in your child's daycare centre, your child may have to stay out of daycare until the disease is no longer present.

Flu vaccine for children and adolescents

The best defense against the flu is to get vaccinated. Unless there is a medical reason not to, everyone aged 6 months or older can benefit from getting the seasonal flu vaccine.
Find out more about kids and the flu vaccine
Special medical conditions

If you have special medical conditions or other high risk factors, you may need additional vaccines. Talk to your health care provider or your local Public Health unit about other recommended vaccines.

Immunization school checklist

All children attending school between ages 4 to 17 need to be immunized according to Ontario's Immunization Schedule.

Download the Immunization School Checklist to keep track of your child's vaccines.

Children who are not fully immunized may not be allowed to attend school. Check with your health care provider or local public health unit to make sure your child has all the vaccines needed to attend school.

Immunization school checklist in other languages
中文 (简体) (Chinese simplified PDF)

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How to protect children and adolescents from 4 to 17 years old with safe and reliable vaccines. Parents and guardians are responsible for reporting vaccines administered to school aged children to their local medical officer of health. In June 2018, the government canceled a new requirement for doctors and nurses to report vaccines to public health.

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This blog discusses the rise of anti-vaxxers and the movement that they have made over time. In this blog has the study that globally, the World Health Organization tracked a 50% increase in the entirely preventable disease, measles, finding outbreaks all over the world. The measles vaccine has saved approximately prevents two to three million deaths annually, yet parents fear vaccines and look down on them. Luckily, there has been a large push back at the individuals who have thrown their way of safety for their children at others.

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TODAY:

The anti-vaccination movement is spreading worldwide, leading to record-setting numbers in the resurgence of preventable disease.

Electric cars are on the rise, but are the vehicles ready for the mainstream? David Common gets behind the wheel to find out.

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The global impact of anti-vaxxers

The growth of Europe's anti-vaccination movement so closely mirrors the rise of its populist parties that a new study recommends that health officials use opinion poll data to predict coming measles outbreaks.

The paper, published Monday in the European Journal of Public Health, plotted past clusters of the highly contagious and sometimes deadly disease against European Parliament election results and found a strong correlation between votes for anti-establishment movements and anti-vax beliefs.

"The higher the level of populist votes in a country, the greater the proportion of the population that believe vaccines are not effective," writes Jonathan Kennedy, a researcher at Queen Mary University of London.

Vaccine hesitancy and political populism, he notes, thrive on similar dynamics: A "profound distrust in elites and experts."

Measles in Europe hit a 20-year high in 2018, with 83,000 confirmed cases and 72 deaths, driven by a huge outbreak in Ukraine and sizeable transmission clusters in Serbia, France, Italy and Greece.

Globally, the World Health Organization tracked a 50 per cent spike in the entirely preventable disease, finding protracted and growing outbreaks in all regions of the world.

The WHO estimates that 136,000 people died from measles in 2017 and that the MMR vaccine first introduced in the early 1960s now prevents two to three million deaths annually.

Yet parental fears and misinformation about the inoculations have spread widely via the internet, to the point that the UN agency now lists "vaccine hesitancy" among its Top 10 threats to global health in 2019.

The consequences of unchecked outbreaks can be devastating.

More than 900 have died in Madagascar, where measles have sickened 68,000 people since last September.

The Philippines has seen 189 measles deaths so far in 2019, with just short of 11,500 confirmed cases as of late last week. And President Rodrigo Duterte's government is considering implementing a "no vaccination, no enrolment" policy for public schools in an effort to bring the disease under control.

But the pain and suffering that the disease still causes in the developing world doesn't seem to make much of an impression in richer nations.

Japan is currently experiencing its worst measles outbreak in more than a decade, with 167 reported cases in the first six weeks of 2019, many of them linked to an anti-vax religious group.

Canada now has 14 confirmed cases for the year - 13 in British Columbia and one in Quebec - and Alberta authorities have issued a health alert after an infected traveller spent 19 hours in the Edmonton area, en route from Vancouver to Inuvik, N.W.T.

And a vacationing French family reintroduced measles to Costa Rica last week via an unvaccinated five-year-old boy - the Central American nation's first case since 2014.

However, there are signs of a growing pushback against the anti-vaccination movement.

On Friday, YouTube stopped placing ads on channels that promote anti-vax content, depriving their owners of revenue as part of a concerted effort to clamp down on "harmful or dangerous" views. (Perhaps not coincidentally, the company's decision came after several major brands pulled their ads from the platform over concerns that pedophiles have been using it to lure victims.)

And it appears that Pinterest has also been quietly trying to purge anti-vaccination messages from its sharing and scrapbooking site by disabling related searches.

Overcoming now-entrenched anti-vax fears won't be easy, though.

An Angus Reid opinion survey released last week found 83 per cent of respondents "wouldn't hesitate" to vaccinate their own children. But 26 per cent admitted at least some concern about potential side effects. And among those who have children under 12 years of age, 20 per cent said the choice to inoculate or not should be left to parents.

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Electric road trip
Reporter David Common and a CBC News crew took an all-electric vehicle on a road trip to Detroit. There were some ... challenges.
Even before the U.S. border guards joked about our boxy, battery-powered vehicle, we knew we were in trouble. We'd gone off course, depleting that battery, shortening our range and putting in doubt whether we'd even make it to the Detroit Auto Show.

What began as a strong start for our electric vehicle journey was not ending well.

We were test-driving a Kia Soul, one of the least expensive, purely electric vehicles available today. It has a range of 160 kilometres, although frigid winter temperatures lower that to 120 km or so. Cost to recharge: Under $2, so as long as you do it at home. Paying for chargers at gas stations, community centres, malls and so on cost several times more.

But for the daily commuter, recharging elsewhere isn't needed. The average Canadian commute is 23 km one way, so even with a stop at the soccer field, the grocery store and day care, our car could easily handle a daily commute.

So what's holding people back from embracing EVs?

Survey after survey report the same four barriers: Entry cost - often $15,000 more than the gas model - is the big one.

The remaining three all have to do with range:

Can the car go as far as I need to, without a recharge?

If I have to recharge, are there enough stations along the way?

How long does it take to recharge?

Our entry-level EV would make up the difference in purchase price over a traditional gasoline-powered car in less than five years of never visiting a gas station. The range questions, though, needed a challenge.

So we headed out from Toronto to Detroit, a 400-kilometre, cross-border journey.

After downloading an app showing charging stations, we had no problem plotting a route - there are hundreds in southern Ontario, though primarily in cities, and fast-chargers can take an EV to full charge in just over a half-hour.

Electric vehicle devotees had drilled into us the need to have a plan for a long trip, along with a backup plan in case a charging station was being used or broken upon our arrival. But we hadn't planned for human error.

The producer, videographer and I got chatting (office gossip, of course), and we missed our turnoff. It only took us about 15 km off our route, but it meant we couldn't make it to our intended charging station. Plan B took effect.

We ended up driving not to Windsor, Ont. - directly across from Detroit - but to Sarnia. And then the charger where we stopped, at a Tim Hortons, was slower than the two others we'd used. A lot slower. It took well over an hour and we didn't even fill up.

Trouble was, we had a meeting at the Detroit Auto Show and now there was no chance of making it.

We reached the border, welcomed by two U.S. border agents who joked about our battery on wheels. Then they spotted the TV equipment and off we went to secondary inspection. I'll spare you the boring bureaucratic details, but suffice to say, those guards drove our car around, then made us go back to Canada and return to the U.S.

It all cost us time and available range.

How do you extend the range in a pinch? Turn off the heat. All of it. Blowers, seat warmers, everything.

It boosted the range by 20 per cent, but meant we were all left freezing in an increasingly frosty car racing to Detroit with the -20 C temperatures seeping in.

Well, we made it. Just. Rolling in on fumes. (If the car had fumes.)

And then we saw it. Our car, but newer, on display at the auto show. And then the revelation: The 2020 model will have the range to make the same journey in one shot.

All a good reminder that many EVs still require planning for trips longer than a commute. But also that the batteries in newer models are getting much better - so you'll be able to leave the heat on while you drive!
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Welcome to The National Today newsletter, which takes a closer look at what's happening around some of the day's most notable stories. Sign up here and it will be delivered directly to your inbox Monday to Friday. The anti-vaccination movement is spreading worldwide, leading to record-setting numbers in the resurgence of preventable disease.

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On Reddit, people are able to find a tremendous amount of information, opinions, and ideas from others around the world. The question for this posting was, "Ex-Anti-Vaxxers of Reddit, what made you change your mind?" An answer to this question was a person who followed the Messianic Jewish religion and was taught to be anti-vax. As this individual grew up they became a scientist and learned all about vaccines and the effects of them. This individual clearly states that they were being 'ignorant'. In the end the individual states "God gave man an amazing brain and vaccines are literally life-saving medicines that I should be thankful for." People have made it clear that they are anti-vax, but once they learn more about the cause/effects and pros/cons, vaccinations always win.

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r/AskReddit - Ex-Anti-Vaxxers of Reddit, what made you change your mind?

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r/AskReddit: r/AskReddit is the place to ask and answer thought-provoking questions.

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These days everything gets brought to social media, no matter how hard anyone tries to control it. When the anti-vaxxers took on Facebook and Twitter, they announced measures to try and steer users towards scientifically sound information about vaccines. Social media struggled to find the line between free speech and protecting the public, given the young ages of the users. The overall idea is that there is fake news everywhere and no one can stop it from happening. Facebook and Twitter were both called to take down posts that contained false information about vaccines.

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As measles cases continue to rise in Canada and the U.S., experts are calling on social media platforms to ban anti-vaccination posts, saying the risks to public health created by misinformation outweigh the right to free speech.

Industry giants like Facebook and Twitter recently announced measures to try to steer users toward scientifically sound information about vaccines, but both told CBC News they won't go so far as to block and remove anti-vaccination material.

"I think this is one of the biggest questions that we're facing right now in this information age: Where is the line between free speech and protecting the public?" said Jonathan Jarry, a biological scientist with McGill University's Office for Science and Society, a centre dedicated to helping the public separate fact from fiction on a variety of science and health topics.

"People are being misled by highly damaging misinformation and I think that in that case, maybe the public good outweighs the right for people to scream 'Fire!' in a theatre where there is no fire."

'No genuine controversy '

"Vaccine hesitancy" is one of the top 10 threats to global health, according to the World Health Organization. Misinformation claiming that vaccines are unsafe or cause "vaccine injuries" such as autism (a theory put forward in a research paper more than 20 years ago that has since been debunked and retracted) frightens some parents and fuels that hesitancy to have their children immunized.

On Tuesday, the head of Gavi, a global alliance committed to increasing immunization, called on social media companies to take down posts that contain false information about vaccines, saying the spread of such content "kills people."

"We have to think about it as a disease," Gavi CEO Dr. Seth Berkley said in Geneva. "This spreads at the speed of light, literally."

Both the Public Health Agency of Canada and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have emphasized the importance of combating that misinformation as a way to stop the current rise of measles, a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease that was declared eliminated in Canada in 1998 and in the U.S. in 2000.

Although there can be side-effects from vaccines - most commonly a sore arm or low fever - they are temporary and harmless. The risk of a serious reaction, including anaphylaxis, is less than one in a million, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada, and can be managed by the health-care provider administering the vaccine.

We don't feel like we are the arbiters of truth. - Michele Austin, Twitter Canada

The fact that misinformation makes some parents afraid to vaccinate their children constitutes a public health threat serious enough to outweigh freedom of speech on Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms, Jarry said.

"There are issues where debate is healthy, where you have people who in good faith ... want to debate the evidence because it's not clear where the consensus lies, and that's perfectly fine - this is how science moves forward," he said.

"But in the case of vaccination ... there is no genuine controversy there. The science is robust."

Effort 'belated,' expert says

Twitter Canada recently launched an initiative called #KnowTheFacts, promoting it as a way to combat vaccine misinformation "by surfacing evidence-based resources" from the Public Health Agency of Canada.

When a user searches Twitter for information on vaccination or immunization, a notification pops up on the screen titled, "Know the facts," with a message below saying, "Information and resources on vaccines and immunizations are available from the Public Health Agency of Canada." Users can then click on a blue button that says "Reach out," which links to an information page about vaccines and immunization on the Government of Canada website.

In an email to CBC News, a spokesperson for the Public Health Agency of Canada confirmed that it provided input on messaging for the notification service, but did not provide any funding for the development or deployment of the service.

Twitter's effort is "a bit belated to the extent that anti-vaccination and vaccine hesitancy have been spreading and becoming increasingly popular online," said Fuyuki Kurasawa, director of the Global Digital Citizenship Lab at York University in Toronto.

Other social media platforms, including Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest, had already announced measures to counter vaccine misinformation. Pinterest is the only platform that has gone as far as blocking and banning anti-vaccination content. As a result of a change implemented last year, if someone searches a term such as "anti-vaccine," a message comes up saying there are no "Pins" (or content) for that search, a company spokesperson said.

Kurasawa applauded the fact that Twitter is collaborating with public health authorities, but said its approach "doesn't necessarily go far enough."

Users can easily ignore the #KnowTheFacts notification. And tweets and hashtags from those sending out anti-vaccination messages still appear as often and as prominently as they did before.

"I think that Twitter is caught in a kind of bind," he said. "It wants to retain and increase its user base, so it doesn't want to actually ban people or users who are spreading these kinds of anti-vaxxing disinformation messages.

"[But] it really should be, I think, banning people who repeatedly spread these kinds of false messages and this kind of false information online."

Not 'arbiters of truth,' Twitter says

Both Twitter and Facebook told CBC News they have no plans to block anti-vaccination posts, nor do they intend to ban known individuals or groups that spread anti-vaccination messages on their platforms.

"We don't feel like we are the arbiters of truth," said Michele Austin, head of government and public policy for Twitter Canada. "We're just trying to help users locate reliable public information on vaccines, should they choose to look for it."

Twitter users like to engage in public conversation in real time, Austin said. She suggested those conversations, rather than censoring content, may be "what's really important in changing somebody's mind [about vaccination]."

Back in March, Facebook announced it would tackle vaccine misinformation by "reducing its distribution and providing people with authoritative information on the topic."

Part of the strategy, it said, was to "reduce the ranking of groups and pages that spread misinformation about vaccinations in News Feed and Search" - meaning they shouldn't pop up as often or as prominently.

But more than two months after that announcement, a Facebook search for "vaccination" conducted by CBC News yielded results topped by a group called "STOP VACCINATION!!! STOP INJURING AND KILLING KIDS!!!"

When CBC News asked Facebook for comment, the company said in an email that its approach is to counter vaccine misinformation with accurate information provided by reputable health authorities, including the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, rather than removing posts.

It also said that holding opinions against vaccines would not warrant Facebook taking action against those users.

"Facebook empowers people to decide for themselves what to read, trust, and share by informing them with more context, promoting news literacy, and collaborating with academics and other organizations to facilitate conversations around challenging and sensitive issues," a spokesperson said in a statement.

But Jonathan Jarry, the scientist from McGill University, noted that Facebook has banned high-profile figures, such as conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, citing violations of the company's policies on hate speech.

"Maybe we need to do the same thing with ... the biggest figures in the anti-vaccination movement, simply because the misinformation that they are pushing is having very, very concrete, dangerous and lethal consequences for the public," Jarry said.

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In this BMC blog series, it states that vaccine refusal is contagious in parents and adults across Canada. Although this article is in the U.S, it is highly respectable in Canada. It states that ever since the spread of the idea that the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine was linked to autism. Since that theory spread, many parents chose against vaccinations and believed that their child would become autistic if given the vaccine. The blog states "In this case the refusal of vaccines, operated in the manner similar to a contagious disease, geographically spreading from parent to parent or community to community."

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In this journal they speak on the idea of how vaccines effect a child's immune system. This journal was shared across Twitter and spark a conversation on how infants have immune systems that respond to these vaccinations, but in a positive or negative way depends on many factors. They state that around 90% of infants develop active protective immune responses to the vaccines given between 2 months and 6 months of age. The overall idea is that some children will not have strong, protective immune systems because of the way their body was created, but it can be built and strengthened over time. The idea behind vaccinations is to not have a child pass away when it could have grown immunity.

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Addressing Parents' Concerns: Do Multiple Vaccines Overwhelm or Weaken the Infant's Immune System?

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Recent surveys found that an increasing number of parents are concerned that infants receive too many vaccines. Implicit in this concern is that the infant's immune system is inadequately developed to handle vaccines safely or that multiple vaccines may overwhelm the immune system.

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This is a Tumblr post, basically stating a comical idea on how anti-vaxxers are just people who think they know better than doctors, and they write how this would be funny if it was not killing innocent people, especially children. This post puts the situation into a funny yet real position because people genuinely choose to not vaccinate their children because they think doctors are wrong or lying to them. The comments then move on to an individual saying that they've never been vaccinated and they're fine, which another person writes back that that was a compelling argument. In other words, it doesn't matter if you're alright now, but it matters in the future when you have children and their immune systems aren't built yet. Passing this concept down to future generations is the same as a disease, dangerous and contagious.

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Our leaders today play a huge role in how we raise our children, life our lives, and play a role in our own communities. A huge leader, even in Canada, is Donald Trump. Even though he does not run our country, he is still someone that many people look to for advice and courage. When a leader has an opinion on something small or large, many people will follow because they are, in a sense, "above us". People strongly allow Donald Trump to play a role in our everyday lives. Although some politicians and famous individuals stepped up to say how strongly they feel not vaccinating your children is wrong, individuals who are throwing around the word 'autism' are the ones who are going to stand out the most.

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"There's a whole genre of Reddit posts where teens ask how to get vaccinated without their parents consenting. Just so you know, that's a thing."
The tweet was made to show how serious the situation has become. Young people are seeing the severity in not getting vaccinated whereas their parents are against it. These young people are choosing to go out of their way to get their injections so that there is not a case in the future where the catch a virus or disease that could have been prevented. Doctors and nurses cannot give out vaccines to young people, so figuring out a way to do it on ones own may be very dangerous.