Comment: Not to go off on the whole vaccination vs. anti-vaxxer debate, or whether she should have just had her child vaccinated as a safer way to build the immunity since she was concerned about the disease. What I find more interesting is that she only admitted she thought about it. She didn't actually do it. But that was enough to get her suspended. I've had all kinds of thoughts myself, but in my behavior I defer to better judgement and try to hold to high moral, ethical and legal standards. It sounds like she just brought it up as a point of discussion, not saying that she did or would do it, yet they suspended her for that.
Her mistake was saying “she thought about it”, which can be interpreted as “she thought about doing it,” versus “she wondered about whether or not it would work.” That’s speculation.
Thought Crime.......................
Thoughts are sometimes warnings.
If a Muslim told his coworkers “I have THOUGHT about shooting all you infidels” would your reaction be, “Well, he only THOUGHT about it”.
When I was a young kid back in the 1950s, if a kid caught measles, it was standard practice for the parents to invite all the kid’s friends over for a “Measles party,” where they would all circle the sick kid’s bend and share lollipops.
The point was to have your kids get measles early in life, rather than getting them as an adult.
They did the same thing for mumps, too.
I should add this this was an upscale very affluent town with many highly educated people.
My father, an MD, purposefully exposed me to all the childhood diseases of the 1960s. I had both three day and German measles, mumps and a sub clinical case of the chicken pox as well as the vaccinations that existed at the time for polio and smallpox. I asked him why and he said it was better for me to have them as a child when he could manage it and I was strong than later as an adult.
i never had any child hood diseases. My classes would get wiped out and i was farmed off to another teacher for a week or so. I did catch chicken pox at 25 tho.