Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
Doesn\u2019t this just take the cake?\u00a0The people who refuse to vaccinate are NOT ignorant, inbred, redneck right-wing trailer trash as we might conclude from the vitriol in the media and on the Internet; they\u2019re Mac-Groveland types: wealthy, educated, White, English speaking Liberals as proven in\u00a0a 2011\u00a0government\u00a0study<\/a>.<\/p>\n
I particularly like this guy\u2019s quip about mapping anti-vaccers by\u00a0drawing a circle around Whole Foods stores<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Liberal parents won\u2019t risk their precious children getting sick from vaccines.\u00a0 Instead, they depend on everybody else\u2019s kids getting vaccinated.\u00a0 That way, their own kids get a free ride because the rest of the herd is immune.\u00a0\u00a0 Which works fine until all the Liberal free-riding parents put their unvaccinated kids together at, say, Disneyland,\u00a0then they all get sick<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Liberals steal a free ride off everybody else . . . disaster results.\u00a0 Who woulda thunk it?<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p>\n
Academically, I can see the libertarian case for making vaccinations voluntary.<\/p>\n
I can also see the flip side; practicing social stigmatizing of anti-vaxxers, and barring them from any privately-sanctioned event or business to prevent the spread of communicable diseases.<\/p>\n
But I revel in the brutal irony of it all; the liberal anti-vaxxers that live in those circles around those Whole Foods stores are the same people who chant along with NPR that man-made glerbal werming is “settled science” and that they are “reality-based”, unlike those superstitious Faux-News-addled conservative rubes who hate them some science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Doesn\u2019t this just take the cake?\u00a0The people who refuse to vaccinate are NOT ignorant, inbred, redneck right-wing trailer trash as we might conclude from the vitriol in the media and on the Internet; they\u2019re Mac-Groveland types: wealthy, educated, White, English speaking Liberals as proven in\u00a0a 2011\u00a0government\u00a0study. I particularly like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51138"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51144,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51138\/revisions\/51144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}