Posted on 02/03/2015 7:40:13 AM PST by C19fan
The Wall Street Journal’s influential editorial board rapped New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on the knuckles for “meandering” on vaccines. “The real public health problem isn’t a lack of parental choice but a lack of common sense about vaccines,” the Journal said in a late-Monday editorial. It added that lawmakers should do more to promote vaccine use.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
(I'm very pro-vaccine, but this promotion makes me suspicious)
Christie's statement is about who children belong to, their parents or the state.
It defies common sense to believe that every vaccine made should be mandated by the state.
Of course it would make the pharmaceuticals very happy, which is why the WSJ has the position it does.
Wow...these vaccine stories are spreading like wildfire. Someone has an agenda.
You might be on to something...
Oh, please. The reason is simply that he was wrong and irresponsible by encouraging people not to get their kids vaccinated. People on FR are flipped out by what they think are “illegal alien” diseases (as if diseases knew!) but the upsurge is among the native born middle and upper middle class, who have read a bunch of junk science and are convinced that vaccines will give their kids autism. There’s no real evidence that they do, but there’s definitely abundant evidence that measles and other common childhood diseases cause blindness, deafness, sterility - and death.
Christie is an Evangelical of some sort, and a lot of Evangelical churches are hotbeds of health quacks. I have a friend who is a member of a women’s group at her Baptist Church that I swear must spend more time engaging in pyramid marketing schemes for bizarre health products, ranging from special oils to useless supplements to Christian Science-style affirmations, than they do in studying the Gospels.
Christie was just pandering to that block, because he doesn’t dare oppose Obama on anything else.
It is all over Reddit.
This is what the left is going to replace the “climate change” flame-out with as their new “You don’t believe in science” attack.
Anyone who thinks vaccinations are bad should visit an old cemetery established before the age of vaccinations. Look at the number of dead children.
It is then you realize why so many of the families before the 1900s had as many as 15 children because most of them would never live to adulthood due to diseases that are today preventable with vaccinations.
My kids all had vaccinations. However I don't think government owns children. I'm sorry that you think they do.
Spot on...I was shocked when I stumbled across an 'anti-vaxxer' thread in a comic book forum, of all places.
“Anyone who thinks vaccinations are bad should visit an old cemetery established before the age of vaccinations. Look at the number of dead children.
It is then you realize why so many of the families before the 1900s had as many as 15 children because most of them would never live to adulthood due to diseases that are today preventable with vaccinations.””
My grandfather was born in Dakota Territory, in 1881 and was one of seven children. But only four reached adulthood.
Two died during one week, from diphtheria. It is one of the diseases we commonly vaccinate against.
We are losing our common sense and societal memories.
It’s a trap...and the Republicans willingly offering themselves up.
Rather than get bogged down in a philosophical debate, the discussion should be about why we are suddenly so concerned with vaccinations.
But nobody wants to talk about that.
I see there is going to be a ‘measles ‘segment on the LOCAL news here in soviet Red Hampshire. Interesting how they manage to squeeze that in with the Patriots and snowstorms ruling the news cycle right now...
Ebola came up snake eyes, so now it is on to measles. Keep an eye on the news (the 'anti-vaxxer' they just showed on the news here in soviet Red Hampshire was sporting a long scraggly beard and wool cap...yep, it's those damn hippies.)
The recent health problem is all about illegal aliens, not anti-vaxxers.
There is not a shred of evidence tying any vast health problem to anti-vaxxers, its just a smear job. There is quite alot of evidence that diseases that once were eradicated in the US to illegal aliens.
You would rather put flowers on your children’s graves for the next forty years instead of vaccinations?
Your dead children will love you for your foresight.
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