It was only a few months ago
that Conservatives were up in arms over the decision to allow patients with
Ebola, a communicable life threatening disease, into the country. The Liberals could not understand this
irrational fear and ridiculing those who worried about the potential for the
spread of the disease. At the time it
was my belief that more people in the US would die of the flu than Ebola, and
so far I think I’ve been proven right.
So now today the population is
up in arms about vaccinations, with the Liberal side casting scorn on those few
who’ve chosen not to vaccinate their children in accordance with the Center for
Disease Control guidelines. The media is
playing the same role they did in the Ebola episode. Pretty much creating fear and explaining why
the government is right and those who who don’t comply with the CDC guidelines are placing the entire
nation at risk.
Now let me stop here to
explain how I think vaccination works.
If you are vaccinated you develop a weak strain of the illness so your
system can develop the necessary antibodies to prevent the real illness from affecting
you. If I’m wrong in this understanding,
then feel free to comment and correct me, just provide a reference. The bottom line is you have it within your
ability to protect yourself and your children, and if someone is not vaccinated
they will get sick; you won’t. Again,
you should not catch whatever you’ve been vaccinated for, whether it be small
pox, polio, measles, mumps, or stupidity. Wait, sorry I just realized there is no
vaccine for that…
So now we come to the latest
outbreak of measles. Based on media
exploitation and the Liberal belief the government knows best. We wring our
hands over the fact a few hundred people (last year 700) out of a population of
320,000,000 will come down with measles, a normally non-fatal disease, because
parents have not vaccinated their children, Don’t get me wrong, I believe
vaccination is a reasonable and good course of action, but at the same time I
believe the parents have a fundamental right to determine what is safe for
their children, and there is just enough uncertainty in unintended side
affects to give a parent some concern. It
was only a couple of years ago that the President and former Secretary of State
voiced their opinion the problems of autism might be attributable to a
vaccine.
Now all the sudden Ms. Clinton
may not know or care why terrorists attacked our embassy in Libya, but for
#GrandmothersKnowBest -- the science on vaccination is now settled. Of course the CDC is solid on this, as they
are always solid until someone proves them wrong.
I know I’m jaded on this for
I acquired my immunity to measles, mumps and chicken pox the old fashion
way. Fortunately, the Salk vaccine came
out I didn’t develop polio before my parents had me vaccinated. So as I said, I think vaccination is probably
a good thing, but there is enough uncertainty to leave doubts in some minds,
and to belittle those doubts, especially when it won't affect you, is just the typical bullying we are so fond of doing.
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