Posted on 09/14/2011 12:59:16 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
n Monday night’s debate, Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum all seemed to be auditioning for the role that Jude Law plays in the film “Contagion” -- Alan Krumwiede, a blogger who tells millions that a vaccine to combat a lethal pathogen is actually dangerous, and claims both the epidemic and vaccine were created by government to enrich drug companies.
Krumwiede’s conspiracy theory proves deadly -- and so will these Republicans’, if anyone listens.
....Don’t be distracted by legitimate, but minor, questions about how states should make public-health decisions: The thrust of this attack is garbage -- and deadly garbage at that. The anti-vaccine psuedo-science behind the charge has been thoroughly discredited.
By alleging that vaccines cause retardation and brain damage, Bachmann is providing aid and comfort to such groups as Generation Rescue, which still defend the now-discredited claims that vaccines cause autism. (The Lancet decertified Andrew Wakefield’s “study” last year. This year, the British Medical Journal showed his research was bogus to boot.)
All three candidates slammed Texas Gov. Rick Perry for requiring immunization of 12-year-old girls against the human papilloma virus, a leading cause of cervical cancer. The attack truly became a blogworthy screed as we heard about how Perry and Merck (the developer of Gardasil, one of the two HPV vaccines) profited from the mandate at the expense of children’s health.
....Unless other Republicans confront Bachmann or she changes her tune, fewer parents will vaccinate their kids. More children will die. Tragically, life will imitate art.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
As long as it doesn’t do it with the heavy hand of government I’m all for Merck making lots of money. Just beware of government and business partnering for your own good... It won’t be.
Since when did we the people 'government' become the vehicle USED by drug companies to make sales? We the tax payers are already paying for the poor children to get their shots. What Merck asked and got was to MANDATE private insurance companies to cover the vaccine. Long arm of 'government' saving US.
I just don’t want the government being the gate keepers of healthcare. Neither dictating what I must have done to me or what I’m not allowed to have done to me.
Government should have no role in protecting their citizens from disease?
Or is it just the SEX part that you object to?
Let’s put it this way, “the shot will protect those who come into contact with those who are infected.”
If that is objectionable to you, you better make sex illegal because “innocent” people are going to die from this cancer.
The collusion of business and government is what bothers me.
Merck should have freedom to do its business without government mandates to help increase sales of their products.
Think about George W. Bush’s multi-billion dollar expansion of big government (Medicare Part D).
It was about taking our tax dollars to subsidize the sale of pharmaceutical company products.
The government needs to get out of the way and create free markets but not take sides and subsidize and support some businesses.
The way Rick Perry switches sides on issues like he did between the past and now is highly reminiscent of old “slick Willie.”
I was very disappointed when Sarah Palin supported Michele Bachmann's inappropriate and uninformed rant about this cervical cancer vaccine.
Michele Bachmann: Accidental Kamikaze
Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann – Minneapolis Convention Center – April 7, 2010
I think I understand why the Republicans are NOT throwing out ObamaCare... and why it is acceptable to give pills instead of procedures to old American grandmas so there will be plenty of money to fund sex I mean cancer drugs.
What part of 'we the people' are GOVERNMENT do you not understand, NOT a few elected high minded executors of mandates = taxes to pave the road to 'salvation'.
How do you propose to get this cancer prevention to the general population - cheaply, easily and quickly?
Is this life saving vaccine just for the wealthy? The educated? The elite?
You use the word "collusion." Is national disaster assistance "collusion?" Is anything that has government working with business "collusion?"
There is a point when one cross the line from being objective to being dangerous.
I could not read the whole thing but by page 3 it was like reading the Clintons/Obamas political careers.
I never objected to anyone who wants to get the vaccination from getting it - though I do think they should pay for it.
I stated what I object to more clearly in #24.
Yes, those dumb women could NOT possibly know more than a high minded professional male politician and the medical society that relies upon US to fund their operations.
By the way I know personally more than a few MD's and some of them are just enthralled with Cuba's health system.
Why aren’t men mandated to get the vaccine if they are the vectors?
“Old American grandmothers” care about the health of others.
You wrongly characterize me - as pushing abortion pills - because I want a cancer vaccine readily available. That’s beyond the pale. So, because I want lives protected (from unforeseen danger) I suddenly, in your why of thinking, must like abortion and by extension, ObamaCare.
How far are you willing to slam others to protect your narrow point of view?
This cancer vaccine (and you can choose not to have it) has an optimum time to be administered — as do other vaccines.
actually, they plan to give it to the boys too, but it is a very expensive vaccine and there’s not enough of it to go around.
And wait til the Christian right hears that it is the gay groups that are pushing it (to stop anal and other genital cancers in gay men).
"....men MANDATED....?
There are "no mulligans or do-overs" on getting this cancer. This vaccine needs to be done earlier -- rather than later.
This is not a “gay” disease.
The issue here for me is not whether or not it’s OK for government to mandate inoculations. It’s whether or not women who refuse to take the inoculation represent a threat to their fellow citizens. In other words, is HPV like smallpox? If a child isn’t inoculated, is the risk of exposure high enough and the results deadly enough to require such an brutal intrusion on personal liberty? If not, then Governor Perry’s actions were unjustified if not an abuse of power. To me, the answer is clear.
So every drug or whatever else that “can save a life” needs to have the skids greased by government so that it can get to the “general population - cheaply, easily and quickly” as possible...
I’m sorry, but that is not governments function. Can you show me where that is in the constitution?
There really is no end to the good intentions of saving people from endless hazards. At some point we have to take responsibility for ourselves and if we lack the resources to do it suffer the consequences. Family, charity and churches are a good place to start for those who lack resources - not sugar daddy government.
Those who claim to know how to spend our limited resources towards better ends than the people who do the producing are endless as well. Its a major reason we are in the financial mess we’re in today.
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