The fact that the system worked correctly isn’t my point. My point is that he tried to upsurp Dictatorial priviledge - that should be the 3rd rail in any game. You are the Govenor of the greatest state on earth; not God.
My Mom has Breast Cancer - you won’t see me FORCING anyone to undergo Breast exams. You see, to me, NO ONE has the right to dictate what others do, or opt not to do.
School vaccines - this is a case where passive sick students infect other students. This is a case where vaccines are for the public good. You can catch polio, small pox, chicken pox, influenza and a host of other life-threatening diseases by proximity to an infected person.
However, to get HPV; you MUST be sexually active. Now, I can’t speak to your school - but mine frowned upon active sexualaty on the school grounds. Even the teachers knew to take their students somewhere else. For someone to dictate this shot - it’s as unforgiveable as cannabalism.
Then we have the whole Perry and illegal immigration issue.
Ping to post #21 where reference is made to your posts (and where the spelling is corrected unlike in #20).
It was wrongheaded of him.
He left out a very important step in the thought process, which was how would the people of Texas perceive this, the way I’m trying to set it up here? Would they perceive it the same way as they do routine vaccinations for public school? OR would they resent and reject it for some very obvious reasons I haven’t considered?
Would they then contact their state reps and demand it be stopped? If so, why am I doing this, then?
I have never for a single second defended Perry’s thought process, or actually the lack thereof. I was agin the plan from the gitgo.
I could see why he thought it was a good idea, though, if you narrowed your thoughts down to how most effectively to prevent a cancer epidemic in a few years to a whole bunch of young Texas girls.
That it has been used ever since to paint him as a political monster, though, is to me just stupid.
He didn’t think it all the way though. That was my first thought when I heard about it then and it is my thought today.
And when the other branch of government, the people’s representatives weighed in, as they should, it was over.
Did he resist? Mightily. He didn’t want to think of all those girls growing up only to get cancer, that to his way of thinking could have so easily been prevented.
He fought it.
But at the end of the day, he understood.
He was told flat out that the people did not want it done that way and why they objected.