You know what seems like a terrible idea? A room full of unvaccinated children.
But that’s exactly the set-up one New South Wales mother wants to create.
Juanita Wanda Halden has declared she has started working towards a ‘no vacc child care centre’.
She said she had already received expressions of interest from mothers, child care providers and property developers, according to the Daily Mail.
The mother declared on Facebook she believes government pro-vaccination policies are “human rights violations”.
“I am a woman who answers to Creator -> not corporation. Therefore I am the highest authority when it comes to making decisions concerning my body or that of my property ‘my child’,” she wrote.
“I also value my ability to discern, research and understand the risks associated with MY choices. Do not try to sway me . Or my rights. You will fail.”
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The Northern Rivers region, from where Ms Halden hails, has some of the lowest vaccination rates in the country — somewhere between 50 and 70 per cent, ABC News reports.
The area experiences frequent outbreaks of whooping cough, a disease which killed two local children in recent years.
But Ms Halden told the Daily Mail that at her proposed anti-vaccination child care centre, “participants would be in a position of less susceptibility to serious communicable diseases based on the knowledge that the parents of these children already have”.
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Medical experts and pro-vaccination advocates disagree, slamming Ms Halden’s proposal as dangerous and irresponsible.