This CHILD beat cancer. Don't make him face measles too.
Rhett
Krawitt, 6 Years Old
Rhett Krawitt, age 6, fought leukemia for 4 and 1/2 years.
Now, his cancer
is in remission, but he won’t be healthy enough to be immunized for
another several months.
Marin County, where he lives, is one of the newest areas to be hit by the current measles outbreak in California, with two children infected this week.
But Rhett lives in Marin, a county with the dubious honor of having the highest rate of “personal belief exemptions” in the Bay Area and among the highest in the state. This school year, 6.45 percent of Marin’s kindergarteners have a PBE which allows parents to lawfully send their children to school unvaccinated against communicable diseases like measles, polio, whooping cough and more.
This petition (See Below) will be delivered to:
Steven Herzog, Superintendent, Reed Union School District-Marin County, California.
Join me in signing this Petition (Click Here)
This is about asking the Superintendent of his son’s school district to require that all children be vaccinated so that kids like Rhett, who can’t be vaccinated, can benefit from ‘herd immunity’ that will keep them protected from the dangerous disease.
This is about asking the Superintendent of his son’s school district to require that all children be vaccinated so that kids like Rhett, who can’t be vaccinated, can benefit from ‘herd immunity’ that will keep them protected from the dangerous disease.
"It's a risk that shouldn't even be there, and that's what's so emotional for me. This was a disease that was gone," says his father Carl Krawitt.
Join me in supporting Carl and Jodi Krawitt's plea
for their son's health and safety at school by signing the petition
asking the Reed Union School District to require students to be
immunized.
An outbreak of measles that started a
few weeks ago at Disneyland continues to spread accross the U.S. I wrote about this in my blog story this week about "There IS NO VACCINE AGAINST STUPIDITY (CLICK HERE).
Katie Bethell started this petition at ChanE.Org stating the following:
"I live in the Bay Area, and my daughter and I love to take
the ferry to Tiburon on sunny Saturdays. At my daughter's school, and
at many schools in the Bay Area, we are asked to keep nut products out
of our children's lunches because of other children's nut allergies.
It's a bit of an inconvenience, how many times have I looked long at the jar of peanut butter on the shelf when trying to assemble a healthy lunch on a busy morning, but it keeps other children at the school safe. If the school can ban nuts to protect a few kids, it can require immunizations too"
It's a bit of an inconvenience, how many times have I looked long at the jar of peanut butter on the shelf when trying to assemble a healthy lunch on a busy morning, but it keeps other children at the school safe. If the school can ban nuts to protect a few kids, it can require immunizations too"
We all have a responsibility to the health of ALL OF our
children.
Reed Union School District can help Rhett stay safe and
healthy at school by making sure all kids are protected from dangerous
and preventable disease.
Join in asking Superintendent Steven Herzog to help keep Rhett healthy by signing the petition.
See video of Rhett and his family here:
Petition Letter to
Superintendent, Reed Union School District-
Superintendent Steven Herzog,
We are signing this petition in support of the request made by the Krawitt family that students in the Reed Union School District be immunized unless they have a medical exemption.
The vaccine discussion can become heated among parents, as any discussion does when we think about our children's lives and well-being. In the face of an active measles outbreak in California, it seems prudent to ensure the health and safety of all children at the school by ensuring that as many kids as possible are vaccinated, especially when you consider what an outbreak at Reed could mean for kids like Rhett.
Thank you for doing everything you can to ensure the health and safety of the children in your district.
We are signing this petition in support of the request made by the Krawitt family that students in the Reed Union School District be immunized unless they have a medical exemption.
The vaccine discussion can become heated among parents, as any discussion does when we think about our children's lives and well-being. In the face of an active measles outbreak in California, it seems prudent to ensure the health and safety of all children at the school by ensuring that as many kids as possible are vaccinated, especially when you consider what an outbreak at Reed could mean for kids like Rhett.
Thank you for doing everything you can to ensure the health and safety of the children in your district.
