Did you know that as of right now, high school seniors lose their vaccine exemptions as soon as they turn 18 years old? Or that Idaho universities aren’t required to provide any immunization exemptions to students, even for religious reasons?
This bill addresses that oversight in current legislation and would prevent the state from coercing individuals into violating their sincerely held religious or moral beliefs in order to continue their education.
HB 597 provides immunization exemptions for state colleges and university and for high school students who are 18.
There is obviously a gap in Idaho law which HB 597 gives the legislature the opportunity to remedy. It is an inherent right and is supported by ID law that a parent makes health care decisions for their child. When a person reaches majority age that decision-making and ownership shouldn’t then transfer to high school or college administrators. The new adult should not then lose rights because they become of majority age. The decision to receive vaccinations is now inherently the right of the adult and should be supported by ID law.
Miste Karlfeldt, Executive Director of Health Freedom Idaho
BILL PURPOSE
This legislation is intended to address two issues. The first is the 12th grade immunization requirement for which there is no exemption when a student is age 18 during their 12th grade school year. The requirement can be found in IDAPA 16.02.15.100.06.c. The second is to prevent colleges and universities in the state of Idaho from infringing on the privacy rights of students by requiring vaccination status or the disclosure of confidential medical information as conditions of enrollment or attendance. The exemptions currently described in §39-4802, §39-1118, and IDAPA 16.02.15.110 apply only to minor children and require parent or legal guardian signature.
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Support H597 to protect the rights of Idaho students beyond the age of 18. Every individual should have the right to make informed choices about their own health without fear of discrimination or invasion of privacy. Contact your representatives now and urge them to vote YES on H597!
This bill will be heard in the Senate Health and Welfare Committee on March 18, 2024 in Room WW54 at 2:00
Health Freedom Idaho brought this to the forefront in 2016, as one of the first issues we trackled as an organization. Yet, here we are in 2024 still trying to get the government to ASK PERMISSION to track our children’s medical information in a tri-state database.
Let the Committee Know to APPROVE HB397 which provides transparency and allows parents to OPT OUT of vaccine tracking
How Does the Tracking Work?
IRIS is the name of the system that doctors, daycares and schools have access to and enter your children’s vaccination information without express consent at each visit or enrollment.
It is said you can OPT-OUT. However, this system to OPT OUT requires you go to the Idaho Health Department after EACH VISIT or EACH ENROLLMENT to have your children’s information purged. The system was intentionally designed to be difficult and to keep parents in the dark about this data tracking.
House Majority Leader Megan Blanksma, R-Hammett, who is sponsoring House Bill 397, said she worried that Idahoans vaccination data — including for adults — is in Idaho’s vaccine database without them knowing. She referenced own experience finding out that her children’s and mother’s vaccine records were in the state database without their permission, after she opted out for her children. She also said Idaho’s vaccine database originally was “opt in” based.
As she closed debate on her bill, Blanksma said many Idahoans who received vaccines “don’t know that the government was collecting your data on that vaccine” because they weren’t given an informed consent form.
“That’s what should scare us more than anything else … that there’s data collection that people don’t know about, are completely unaware of. And that’s what this bill fixes,” Blanksma said. “It makes sure everyone knows where their medical data is going.”
Blanksma also said in the hearing that Idaho’s opt-out rate was low because it is difficult to opt out, and the bill would ensure that medical “providers don’t opt you in.”
“It’s become more complicated, and less transparent,” she said. “… Anytime the government is collecting your data, it should be transparent.”
This bill is expected to be heard in the House Floor on the week of Feb 7. UPDATE: WIN!!! This bill passed the House and is moving on to the Senate Feb. 11 time to reach out to our Health and Welfare committee at the Senate side and ask for this bill to be heard and approved.
Your parental rights to choose where your children’s private medical information is entered shouldn’t be compromised. That’s why we believe it’s your decision whether your child’s vaccination status is registered in Idaho’s tri-state government-tracking database known as IRIS.
Currently, this tri-state government database is accessible by doctors, daycares, and schools to enter your children’s vaccination status at every visit and annual enrollment. This means that it’s the parent’s responsibility to contact the Health Department EACH TIME your child visits the doctor or has a school enrollment package filled out in order to have the data expunged from their system.
Is this a gross violation of privacy? Do you think our tracking system should be something you can OPT IN to if you wish rather than being forced in?
Its time to let our legislators know we want them to make this change! 2024 Legislative Session bill number 397 will allow us to OPT IN to having the government store and track vaccination status for children.
No shots, no school is simply not true! A signed parental statement is the only thing necessary to evoke your child’s immunization exemption.
YES, there are 3 Exemptions to Vaccines for Idaho. Idaho law allows a parent or guardian to claim an immunization exemption for their child for medical, religious or other reasons. A medical exemption must be completed by a licensed physician. While the schools or daycare might recommend that exemptions for religious or other reasons be documented on the form provided by the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, Immunization Program the law does NOT REQUIRE A FORM.
Parents have a right to OPT their children out of some (or all) state-mandated vaccines for daycare and school. The three exemptions for the state are medical, religious, and ‘other.’
The NFLPA has long been committed to protecting the health and safety of the players it represents, particularly in relation to the risk of traumatic brain injury and concussions. Health Freedom Defense Fund has urged the National Football League Players’ Association to focus on a new health concern that could affect NFL players’ long-term health and safety. The call comes in the wake of recent tragic events, including Damar Hamlin’s multiple cardiac arrests and the heart attacks and strokes of former NFL players Uche Nwaneri, Chris Baker, and Jessie Lemonier. A growing body of scientific literature suggests that COVID-19 vaccines could be a contributing factor.
Health Freedom Idaho Sponsored Bill SB1005 will add the exemption notification language to the daycare vaccine mandate section of 39-1118. This bill informs parents of their right to exemptions when discussing mandated vaccines is brought up.
UPDATE: This bill passed unanimously in BOTH Health Committees in the Idaho Legislature and will be heard on the House floor shortly.
March 3, 2023
This legislation requires licensed daycare facilities to notify parents or guardians of their right to vaccine exemptions anytime the licensed daycare facilities communicate with parents regarding vaccination requirements. Vaccine exemptions for children attending licensed daycare facilities exist in the Idaho code 39-1118. With the addition of this legislation, any notifications to parents or guardians regarding vaccinations must include a description of their right to exempt their child.
For some individuals, the after-effects of the virus are creating complex illnesses to treat. Long Term effects from viral infections have been documented to include an achy body, pain, brain fog, chronic cough, shortness of breath, and plantation affecting the organs, heart, brain, lungs, and lessening degree, the kidneys. In his 30 years of clinical experience treating chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia (CFS/FMS), and in his landmark published research on CFS/FMS (published in the Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum has found that his S.H.I.N.E.® approach is successful in the vast majority of patients. Dr. Teitelbaum, a board-certified internist and nationally known expert in treating complex illnesses, including chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, sleep, and pain, believes with some common sense, we will do fine as a nation.
In this episode, learn some encouraging facts:
Dr. Teitelbaum’s immunity-boosting protocols, including Zinc, VIT A, D, C, K
His secret to reducing stress: hint it involves reducing/eliminating media
Fascinating Biological Facts that differentiate men and women’s response to the virus
Pain is not an outside invader. It’s a regular alert system – a warning. When you give your body what it needs, the pain goes away.
The unresolved concerns about the vaccine:
* Virus mutations and the effectiveness of the vaccine
* The vaccine and your immune system response – a competitive inhibitor.
The program was developed by Dr. Teitelbaum for viral infections dealing with chronic fatigue and those still dealing with long-hauler symptoms.
Here’s an additional list of resources with interviews from Doctors worldwide:
On this episode of Health made radio Dr. Michael Karlfeldt interviews Dr. Neisuma, Ph.D. in toxicology, who has 30 years of experience in human exposure to drugs, chemicals, and microbes. He describes the vicious cycle that pharmaceuticals and their side effects pull an individual further and further away from controlling their own health and wellness. In this episode, Dr. Nieusma describes how the MRNA “vaccine” impacts cellular function and how to reverse the damage.
Last month, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control once again extended the COVID pandemic public health emergency declaration, this time until January 11, 2023.26 To justify keeping us living in fear, 2728 federal health officials are warning ominously that a “twindemic” of a more transmissible SARS-CoV-2 virus mutant strain, combined with an especially bad influenza season, is poised to make more of us very sick this fall and winter if we don’t all get a COVID shot and a flu shot at the same time.2930 One high-ranking government doctor said with a straight face – “I really believe this is why God gave us two arms — one for the flu shot and the other one for the COVID shot.” 31
But Americans have grown weary of virus porn, and while the majority of Americans have gotten at least one COVID shot, polls show that just 14 percent of children under age five have gotten one.323334 There are signs that Americans are questioning the ever-changing number of COVID booster shots being aggressively advertised by Big Pharma and government officials, who are trying hard to convince us we will need to get a COVID shot every single year. 35363738 In this very lucrative marketing campaign, the two mRNA COVID vaccine manufacturers, Pfizer and Moderna, raked in 50 billion dollars in 2021 and 2022 alone, with a promise of billions more in profits in the years to come.39404142
A Weirdly Mutated Virus, A Reactive Biological That’s Not a Vaccine
Those two drug companies are selling a cell-disrupter biological product that is called a vaccine, but in no way resembles any other vaccine that has ever been injected into humans to theoretically combat a weirdly mutated coronavirus, which is acting like no other virus that has ever infected humans. The mRNA biological has been described as “transforming the body into a vaccine-making machine,”43 while one scientist explains that the rapidly mutating SARS-CoV-2 virus is “essentially viral evolution on steroids.”44 But, still, nobody in charge of the COVID pandemic response seems to know exactly where this virus on steroids came from or exactly what kind of damage it – or the genetically engineered components of the mRNA product – are doing to the biological integrity of human populations.454647484950515253
The mRNA COVID vaccines are associated with many ugly side effects, especially ones that compromise the blood and heart and can cause death.5455 Online it has been dubbed the “clot shot”,5657 even as owners of social media platforms try to shut down all conversations about serious COVID vaccine reactions being reported online,5859606162 in the medical literature,63 and to the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).6465 There have been more than 1.3 million adverse events reported to VAERS after mRNA COVID vaccinations, including heart, brain, and immune system damage and death. These 1.3 million reports represent more than half of all vaccine reactions reported for all vaccines since VAERS became operational in 1990 under the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act,66 while less than one percent of all vaccine reactions are reported to VAERS.67
The mRNA COVID vaccine is the most reactive one ever distributed in the U.S. to the entire population.
Despite a huge public outcry, consisting of more than 31,000 public comments posted on the CDC’s website, despite hundreds of experts warning of serious risks to children, the Centers for Disease Control has voted to add the Covid mRNA vaccine to the VFC Program, which provides free Vaccines for children and as well as add the COVID-19 vaccines for children as young as six months old to the new Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedules, which will be rolled out in February 2023. This will add 54 injections (72 antigens because of combined shots like MMR) to 72 injections (90 antigens.) Its nothing to do with health. This will allow the pharmaceutical companies to escape product liability which means the “emergency” can end, but the liability protection for the pharmaceutical companies continues.
More than a dozen states automatically add new CDC recommendations to their required schedule of vaccines for schools and daycares.There is information about vaccine laws and exemptions in every state here.
TELL HEALTH DEPARTMENT NO! WE DON’T WANT THE COVID VAX FOR SCHOOL
Idaho will require the Health Department to submit a rule change to the legislature. Prior to that submission, they are required to host public hearings. IT IS TIME TO SPEAK UP NOW AND SAY “NO!”
“Every state must reject this CDC mandate for children immediately. Even the CDC’s own data reveals that these COVID shots are harming children. Pharmaceutical companies merely see children as a budget item to increase their bottom line and they continue to ignore the serious adverse events and deaths caused by these experimental shots.”
Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver
Call to Action
We know you are outraged and want to take action immediately. Now is the time for the parents and grandparents to reach out to the Health Department, the Education Department, and school administration, as well as the legislators who are running for office, and let them know that there is no medical or scientific justification to add a vaccine to the childhood schedule especially when there is no clinical data to justify shot.
Parents hold power — don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
Make clear to your superintendent and commissioner that exemptions are not enough and that you will be pulling your child from school if this vaccine is mandated for attendance, costing the district tens of thousands of dollars in funding.
Sherri Ybarra: Superintendent of Public Instruction Telephone 208-334-2270 Fax 208-334-2632
Today’s vote on adding the COVID-19 vaccines means 18 more shots — one per year between the ages of 6 months and 18 years — will be added to the schedule, according to Toby Rogers, Ph.D.
“So overnight the childhood schedule would go from 54 injections (72 antigens because of combined shots like MMR) to 72 injections (90 antigens),” Rogers said. “This has absolutely nothing to do with health — it’s all about profit and power.”
The accepted COVID-19 vaccine recommendations that will go into effect in 2023 include the following primary series:
Age 6 months-4 years: 2-dose series at 0, 4-8 weeks (Moderna) or 3-dose series at 0, 3-8, 11-16 weeks (Pfizer-BioNTech)
Age 5-11 years: 2-dose series at 0, 4-8 weeks (Moderna) or 2-dose series at 0, 3-8 weeks (Pfizer-BioNTech)
Age 12-18 years: 2-dose series at 0, 4-8 weeks (Moderna) or 2-dose series at 0, 3-8 weeks (Novavax, Pfizer-BioNTech)
For children who are moderately or severely immunocompromised, the recommended primary doses are increased from a 2-dose series to a 3-dose series.
CDC DATA REFLECTS THE SHOT IS NOT SAFE FOR CHILDREN!
Ironically, the CDC presented data at its ACIP meeting on September 1, 2022, that confirms that COVID shots are not safe for children. The data presented were summaries of reports from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), Vaccine Safety Data Link (VSD), a private insurance-based system that monitors hospital records, and V-safe, a voluntary smartphone-based monitoring program that relies on text messages and web surveys.
The data presented at the ACIP meeting revealed that within seven days after vaccination, 40-50 percent of children 5-11 years of age reported a “systemic reaction,” 10-15 percent had a “health impact,” and 2-4 percent needed “medical care.” Within seven days of vaccination, 60-75 percent of children 12-17 years had “any systemic reaction,” 10 to 25 percent were “unable to perform daily activities,” and 5 to 20 percent were “unable to work or attend school.”
Therefore, more than 30 percent of children in this age group had a health impact after the second shot, and booster dose, and approximately 2 percent needed medical care.
The CDC data clearly shows that these injections are not safe for children and teens and should be discontinued immediately. Other countries, like the UnitedKingdom, stopped the COVID shots for children under 12 years, except for children in high-risk categories. Sweden has also decided against recommending COVID shots for children aged 5-11. (SOURCE)
Government Protects the Billion Dollar Pharmaceutical Companies at the Expense of Our Children
By adding the COVID shots to the childhood schedule, transferring liability for vaccine injuries to the federal government’s National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). This delivers permanent legal protection to Pfizer and Moderna by allowing them to bring an FDA-approved shot to the market without facing lawsuits and bring in billions of dollars in revenues for the drug companies.
Pharmaceutical companies are not liable for injuries or deaths associated with Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) injections but can be held liable for injuries caused by a fully licensed “vaccine,” unless that shot is added to the CDC’s childhood schedule. This means liability protection also includes the adult COVID shots as well. This will allow the pharmaceutical companies to escape product liability which means the “emergency” can end, but the liability protection continues.
REPORTED INJURY AND DEATH ARE NOT ADEQUATELY TRACKED
Vaccine injury reports have skyrocketed since the COVID vaccines. This voluntary reporting system doesn’t adequately track the injuries and deaths associated with the shots. Individuals experiencing reactions are not reported by medical facilities in a consistent or regular basis. However, the reports that are coming in are shocking and leave little doubt that this shot is causing long-term harm to many. OpenVaers.com
On August 12, 2022, CDC updated its guidelines. To the surprise of all, vaccinated and unvaccinated will be treated the same. There are no additional restrictions in place for those unwilling to subject their bodies to experimental medical products. Now, two years later, after unconstitutional medical mandates that left hundreds of thousands fired – the data reflects the fact that their experimental vaccine DOES NOT impact the death rate from the sickness.
Almost a quarter of a million individuals suffered life-threatening, long-term, or permanent reactions from experimental and liablity-free vaccinations. More than a million reports were submitted to the national database that tracks vaccine reactions.
COVID-19 death rates are nearly the same in all age groups reported whether or not a person is vaccinated. It would be difficult for the CDC to have different guidelines based on vaccination status since the data show no clear benefit of vaccinations.
IRIS is Idaho’s Immunization Tracking system. Your family is AUTOMATICALLY ENTERED into the system by authorized health care providers, child care providers, and schools. Is this a gross violation of privacy?
Your children’s medical information is likely in the government’s database RIGHT NOW! You must OPT OUT to have your information removed from the IRIS database.
Once your information is shared within the government tracking database, authorized 3rd parties can take the information and use it as they wish.
While you can opt out of IRIS and purge your child’s information from their IRIS system, you are unable to purge it from the third-party systems once it has been accessed.
Idaho’s Immunization Reminder Information System (IRIS) is a secure health information system containing the names and immunization history of people who have received vaccinations in Idaho. This information is available only to authorized health care providers, child care providers, and schools. Participation in IRIS is voluntary, and you may opt-out at any time by contacting the Idaho Immunization Program at (208)334-5931 and requesting an opt-out form or by completing this online opt-out form.
Two options are available for opting out of IRIS for yourself, your minor child (under the age of 18 years), or a person for whom you are a legal guardian:
Option 1: Remove only immunization-related information from IRIS. Only demographic information is retained in IRIS, including name, address, phone number, mother’s maiden name, date of birth, and gender. Demographic information will not be viewable by medical providers, schools or childcare staff. By making this selection, I understand that allowing demographic information to be retained in IRIS will reduce the chance of accidental or intentional re-entry of vaccination information about me/him/her.
Option 2: Remove all information from IRIS – immunization and demographic. By making this selection, I understand that at any time, information regarding myself, my child, or person for whom I am a legal guardian, may be re-entered by a health care provider. I understand that I must work with my health care provider(s) to ensure this information is not re-entered into IRIS.
CLICK HERE to have your private medical information removed from IRIS.
Do you think our tracking system should be something you can OPT into if you wish rather than being forced in? It’s time to let our legislators know we want them to make this change!
IRIS tracking system is NOT voluntary as an OPT OUT system. It is a gross violation of privacy. Please support legislation that changes the Health Department’s vaccine tracking system to an OPT IN by choice system.
The following representatives voted against the automatic tracking of adults into the IRIS system. Contact these Representatives and thank them for protecting their privacy and ask them to sponsor a bill that removes the automatic entry of our children’s information.
