Angry parents are organizing, even in deep blue Greenwich CT

GREENWICH — Protesters gathered in the thousands Tuesday at the state Capitol to oppose the a bill, passed by the state Senate late Tuesday and ratified by Gov. Ned Lamont Wednesday, that would repeal the religious exemption for school vaccinations, including the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine.

Those in the crowd carried signs bearing slogans like “If it’s forced, are we free?” and “defend religious liberty.” Some also wore a yellow Star of David, which bore the words “un-vaccinated,” in a reference to the Holocaust, in which millions of Jews were murdered.

Those feelings of persecution and comparisons to genocide have not been confined to Hartford and have not only been used to defend religious exemptions for the MMR vaccine.

In Greenwich, too, a group of concerned parents is questioning guidance from the federal, state and local government, as well as from medical and public health professionals, that says people should get vaccinated in order to put an end to the COVID-19 pandemic.

And more than just highlighting potential risks of the vaccine, some Greenwich parents are questioning whether or not school officials have a right to communicate with their children about the vaccine at all.

“The Nuremberg Code exists to stop people from unwittingly becoming part of a medical experiment, which is exactly what people are doing when they take the unapproved experimental mRNA gene therapies described by the manufacturer as the software of life,” said Greenwich parent Jackie Homan, at last week’s Board of Education meeting, citing a set of post-World War II research ethics that ban the kind of human experimentation endured by victims of the Holocaust. “These are not vaccines in the traditional sense, and the clinical trials aren’t due to share results until 2023.”

Homan, and several other speakers at last week’s meeting, expressed what many COVID-19 vaccine skeptics are feeling. The science is still out on the vaccines and people, especially students, should not be forced into receiving the shot.

Further, Homan and others have alleged, Greenwich Schools and Superintendent Toni Jones, in particular, have overstepped by sharing information directly with students about vaccines. Homan also lambasted the district for communicating to students that COVID vaccines had been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, when in fact they have only received emergency authorization from the federal agency.

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