Why do we keep seeing this idiotic fallacy crop up in the news? It’s not anti-vaccine crusaders responsible for outbreaks of diseases that WERE effectively eradicated from this nation, it’s third world immigrants.
But the cognitive dissonance on the left and in the media is so intense that they can’t possibly blame a public health catastrophe on the people that are actually carrying, spreading, and subject to the diseases in question.
Poor, uneducated, unvaccinated (to coin a word) illegal immigrants are both a vector and a reservoir of communicable diseases formerly eradicated in the United States - blaming unrelated parties, no matter how moonbattish you may believe their philosophies, does absolutely nothing to address the public health consequences involved, does nothing to educate the public about the issues. The only purpose of such misinformation is to vilify what the media deem ideological miscreants.
We COULD advocate rational border protections (especially at major ports of entry), disease screenings of prospective immigrants, require vaccination records or medical evaluation for foreign travelers, and educate the public about the disease risks posed by international immigration.
Any and all of those policies would have more beneficial influences on public health than letting depraved leftists blame innocent parties for the resurgence of vanished diseases.
Often, quite often here in the west, it is reservations.
anti-vax people are targeted to be Goldsteins by liberals who are the ones who push vax’s on people. they don’t swallow the govt experts line and don’t mind being totalitarian on anyone who doesn’t believe what they do, and deny vax problems and cover up the problems. thgey freak about mercury releqse in a light bulb but say the thimerosal - 50% mercury - is totally safe to inject into the human body where it accumulates in fatty tissues like the brain.
“We COULD advocate rational border protections”
Not if the Bush wing of the GOP has any say in it.
Only xenophobic nativists oppose third world viruses that only wish to do the infections that Americans won’t do anymore.