I don’t see how requiring a vaccination to attend a PUBLIC school is anti-libraterian. If using a government school, then follow government rules. There was an opt-out provision. If a parent chooses to be ill-informed and fail to opt out, that cannot be blamed on the government. I thought personal responsibility was a conservative hallmark . I find it more troubling that Perry backed away from his decision. No one can predict with certainty who will be the Republican nominee. My guess is it will be Perry and November’s choice will be him or Obama.
Very statist post.
HPV is transmitted by behavioral actions and is not contagious in the way that chicken pox, measles, influenza, etc.
As far as I’ve been able to discover there have been no “sudden outbreaks” of HPV affecting large local populations. One has have direct with an infected person for the viral transmission. It is not like typhoid or cholera.
So Governor Perry circumvented the legislative process and public debate and issued an edict, the executive order, to benefit Merck, the public be damned.
The opt-out provision is immaterial to the abuse of executive power to impose forced inoculation which has serious consequences for a significant portion of those inoculated with a drug fast tracked by the FDA with no serious study of long term effects.
Perry further exhibits his arrogance by not having rescinded his executive order, relying on the Texas legislators to do the job. Brings back memories of LBJ and his life story closely matches LBJ’s.
He can talk smoothly but as far as I can tell he’s a wave rider with a very keen sense of the shifts in public opinion. His readiness to change party affiliation after Turd Blossom’s seduction underscores his drive for power.
The approach of big money interests urging him to run absent any previous public expression of running justs cements his lust for power.
He’s going to be walking a whole herd of cats back in short order.
Government has NO BUSINESS mandating a vaccine for a disease which can’t be passed from student to student while sitting in a classroom.