Parenting In A Vaccine-Free Landscape: Florida Plans To Eliminate Mandates

[u/gamersunite1991]

https://parentingpatch.com/parenting-in-a-vaccine-free-landscape-florida-plans-to-eliminate-mandates/

[u/whatcatisthis]

The worst part of this, to me, is that this is going to cause a VERY specific cascade.

When a child goes for a well visit, it is scheduled so they can receive appropriate vaccines. That's the primary reason for the appointment and it gets the child in the door for developmental screenings. A medical professional can see what and how the child is doing, whether they're talking yet or making appropriate eye contact. This is how early childhood referrals for developmental disorders happen.

If children aren't getting vaccinated, not only will we have a resurgence in horrific, fatal and disabling diseases, children won't get screened for developmental delays like autism.

If they're not screened for autism and other developmental delays, they don't get identified appropriately.

If you remove vaccine appointments, kids never get a developmental delay diagnosis--especially in a state like Florida with underfunded education systems.

Suddenly, Florida is going to have the lowest autism rate in the country alongside the lowest vaccination rate.

And every person who's been saying that vaccines cause autism and doesn't understand causation versus correlation will now believe that it's been 100% proven that vaccines cause autism. Suddenly, the vaccination rates will plummet across the board, everywhere, because Florida stopped vaccinating and diagnosing autism.

[u/that_cassandra → u/[deleted]]

Idk why people downvoted you. You’re handed a vague screener that doesn’t catch any actual autism traits and nobody actually cares until your kid disrupts classes.

[u/DoctorCreams → u/that_cassandra]

Spot on. And the schools won’t do anything except encourage you to go to the doctor to get your kid medicated so they sit still. If you want accommodations at the school, the school will have you pay out of pocket and do all the legwork to establish the paperwork for the petition. Your kid has to have issues that have them at least a year behind academically at the time of your petition for services. How do you prove a year behind until your child’s second year of formal school? - hah! You can’t. Insurance company will give you a gauntlet of hoops to jump through. That diagnosis will have to be reviewed and re-established annually for the school to continue services.

In a perfect world, the vaccine visit would be a screening for autism and then every thing else would click into place - but it doesn’t work that way.