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VaccinateGate

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Mr. Sunshine, Jan 29, 2015.

  1. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    And Arsenal. I don't follow EPL, but it seems to have pissed off a good number of people as well.

    What Super Bowl? Chris Christie cheers on Arsenal in London | MSNBC

    Does seem pretty un-American to be watching some commie, Euro sport on Super Bowl Sunday.
     
  2. FileNotFound

    FileNotFound Well-Known Member

    In a couple hundred years, social scientists will be studying the anti-vaccination movement and saying, "Holy shit, these people were taking medical advice from a Playboy bunny?"
     
  3. franticscribe

    franticscribe Well-Known Member

    I suspect they'll be more flummoxed that the government wasn't forcing people to be vaccinated.
     
  4. Big Circus

    Big Circus Well-Known Member

    Christie also wanted to imprison the Ebola nurse at the airport. But vaccines? Whatever.
     
  5. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    Yeah, a really stupid statement ...
     
  6. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    All vaccines ARE created equal - they're ALL safe and effective at preventing diseases.
     
  7. JayFarrar

    JayFarrar Well-Known Member

    Christie is only against it because Obama came out for it.
     
  8. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    And your point is?
     
  9. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    When a parent's completely uneducated "choice" puts thousands of other kids and other vulnerable populations at risk, there is no "balance" to be struck to accommodate those dumbass parents. It's a public health issue. Period.

    Unless you want to start ranking diseases and their vaccines by how deadly they are. Christie can go ahead and mandate MMR but not, say, DTaP. Then, he can sit back and enjoy the whooping cough outbreak that will surely come next.

    Government can't allow for "choice" when it comes to vaccines and then pick and choose which ones are important enough to take that choice away.

    Also, what JayFarrar said.
     
  10. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    So parents should have no choice when it comes to Gardasil. Got it.
     
  11. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    There will come a time when a group of wackos questions the polio vaccine. Should be fun.
     
  12. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    Amendment for this specific vaccine: Mandates should pertain only to sexually active people.

    Did you know that HPV infects nearly every single sexually active adult in our country at one point or another? And that 20,000-30,000 HPV-related cancers are reported every single year?

    So, what, exactly, would be the public-health rationale for not getting HPV vaccine?
     
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