[centurion316]

Tell us, oh enlightened one, your qualifications to speak on this issue. If you are not an ignorant journalist, then what? A medical doctor? An infectious disease researcher? Or, something else.

Some of us are old enough to remember when infectious diseases killed many Americans, mostly innocent children. Medical science, largely vaccinations, practically eliminated the threat of deadly infectious disease from our country, but now it’s back. How are we going to deal with that very disturbing fact?

[FredZarguna]

"Some of us" [meaning, all of us over the age of about 40] are old enough to have had parents who died or were crippled for life by polio.

This anti-vaccination uproar is nothing but crazy talk. The people spreading these diseases come from countries that either don't have vaccination requirements, or have poorly enforced vaccination regimes. I want my culture to be preserved, which is one of the reasons I oppose the forced/encouraged and illegal importation of people who don't share it.

That includes the importation of unskilled peasants who don't know the meaning and value of science.

[Sam Gamgee]

Yes, and I remember Governor Perry trying to vaccinate Texas teens on Gardisil for kickbacks from drug companies.