[quote=FlyerInHi]It’s funny, I don’t see Rand Paul agitating to prevent the military from vaccinating service members, which they do.
The government also forces immigrants to get vaccinated before they get entry or residency visas.[/quote]
Hey Brian…I know where you want to go with this with your intellectual superiority of being a progressive liberal that believes in science versus being a bible humper backassward hilly-billy from the south…
But before you go there, you might want to consider a few things
Hey look Brian…The states that offer bullshit “philosophical” exemptions from vaccinations aren’t concentrated in red, plenty of them in fact blue….
And note the two states that basically say, “tough shit, we don’t care what you religious or philosophical beliefs are, your kids are getting vaccinated”..Neither of those states are blue too.
A staggering 99.7% of kindergartners in Mississippi are vaccinated for measles, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s the highest rate in the nation. In California, the rate is only 92.3%. (Colorado, meanwhile, has the lowest rate, at 81.7%.)
….. According to the San Jose Mercury News, 87% of kindergartners at the Berkeley Rose School, for example, had exemptions from vaccination. Parents at the school “seek more alternative health care,” a spokeswoman told that newspaper. Well, they’re choosing an unsafe alternative — one that puts their kids, and, importantly, all kids in the community, at greater risk.
Holy shit, are you telling me that hilli-billy Mississippians that tend to hump the bible more than believing science….believe more in vaccinating kids versus hipster-ultra-progressive science based families from Berkeley that have tendencies to think things like vaccines are some grand government conspiracy that uses people as guinea pig test subjects and end up seeking alternative, unsafe forms to vaccinations? Could superior science minded ultra-progressives intellectual Berkeley hipsters actually learn a thing or two from backassward hilly-billy bible-humping bumpkins from Mississippi about the importance of vaccinations? Say it ain’t so!
I think the real issue, is that you have plenty of idiots in america in general that don’t believe in vaccination, red or blue.
Apparently, even though Rand did make that idiotic statement, he apparently does believe in getting vaccinated…Is it really a surprise? Politics make people say stupid shit to try to win votes from stupid people. Even Obama does that. So did Bush. And I can’t wait the sort of shit that will come out from Jeb or Hillary.
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2013-2014 stats. Haven’t had time to look at it in detail.
