Western Australia bans unvaccinated parents from visiting their sick children in hospitals

Peasblossom

Does a parent have the right to put their child at risk of serious illness?

We’d remove children who were at risk of serious accident.

Where does the difference lie?

Are you saying children should be removed from parents who are not vaccinated?

I'm out.

Does a parent have the right to put their child at risk of serious illness?

We’d remove children who were at risk of serious accident.

Where does the difference lie?

So do you think compulsory vaccinations are the right way to go, Pammiel1?

Or vaccinating without parental consent?

* In Australia, even before Covid, children and grandchildren of elderly people in care homes were not allowed to visit them without having a flu vaccination.
Children are not allowed to start school without having all vaccines.
As soon as a baby is born, someone is there with a Hep B vaccine ready to inject them.
Some children were given Covid and other vaccines in school without parental permission.

Australia is not as liberal as many think.*

And in the UK measles is on the rise because vaccines are not being taken up. Sometimes it’s not a breach of liberty but common sense.

We have relatives in Victoria, cannot post what they think of the Government both National and State.

That is so sad, and in my mind the wrong thing to do. It could set child against parent, feeling rejected at a time when they need them most.
Very frightening and scarred for life.

We may still get shredded Callistemon!

Alegrias1

^Australia is not as liberal as many think.^

This. 100 times this. ??????

I thought I'd get shredded for posting that!

Thanks Alegrias

They're not that organised either - DD got someone else's positive test result from another State (she hadn't even taken a test as she wasn't ill). It sounds like chaos there sometimes.
People camping out overnight just to get a PCR test and being sent away because "they had their quota for the day".

They are doing something right.

Is this the right thing to do though? Or a step too far?
Why now? Is it because their measures did not work anyway?

These children must be very frightened.

Australia is not as liberal as many think.

This. 100 times this. ??????

I agree, GrannyGravy
Having a Covid pass and regular negative test result should be enough, surely? Together with masks.
If someone has had Covid. and recovered are they less likely to have antibodies than a vaccinated person?


In Australia, even before Covid, children and grandchildren of elderly people in care homes were not allowed to visit them without having a flu vaccination.
Children are not allowed to start school without having all vaccines.
As soon as a baby is born, someone is there with a Hep B vaccine ready to inject them.
Some children were given Covid and other vaccines in school without parental permission.

Australia is not as liberal as many think.

Through the whole pandemic there have been 9 deaths from Covid in the whole of Western Australia. People have maintained their freedoms throughout apart from a couple of snap lockdowns. They are doing something right.