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RE: Ozzies to Be Fined For Not Vaccinating Kids When the State Wants
If a child has an adverse reaction to a vaccine both the doctor and the vaccine manufacturer should have to defend their actions in court. It could well be that everyone was following the best practices they knew at the time and it was just an unfortunate result. It could also be that the child shouldn't have been given that particular vaccine because of any number of medical reasons. Or maybe there was a bad batch of vaccines that slipped through the quality control process. The people handing these things out shouldn't get an automatic pass on liability.
Exactly right.
On another note, Australia has the highest proportion of minors in state care among OECD countries. The last figure I saw was something like a little over one in fifty Australian minors. Finland is second with 1.6 percent of all minors in care. The Finnish number has been going up lately despite the long-standing downtrend in violence, alcoholism and criminality in the country. The most developed countries in the world may not necessarily be the best places to raise a family for long. This is because the rest of the world has been catching up economically and because some vestige of family centric values might be left in some of them.
I wonder how much of that is because of Aborigine families being separated.
In the US there is a similar trend in that if you are from a black family you are much more likely to be split apart by child welfare services.
That's a good question. I found a newspaper article in the Guardian according to which the number of Aborigine children removed from families and placed with strangers since the year before the prime minister of Australia apologized for the policy of removing children from Aborigine families (2007) and the year before the article was published (2015) has been growing.
I've understood that this was done to Native American communities in the USA but at some point safeguards were put in place in the form of a higher legal threshold for removal.
The same thing has happened everywhere where there are minorities in Western countries including Canada to Inuits and Native Americans. Denmark was at it in Greenland. What the Norway, Sweden and Finland did up to the 1970's was force Sami children to go to boarding schools because schools could or would not be not built close to their homes. The children were forbidden from speaking their native languages at the schools. Because white kids in the Australian outback were allowed to be distance schooled using the radio, it is very clear that the same arrangements could've been made in the Nordic countries. There was clearly a malicious intent to wipe out their cultures at a high cost of human suffering.
(Perhaps it is wise of me to not elaborate what I would do to the people responsible (if alive), if I had to power to do so, on a public immutable blockchain.)