{"id":24237,"date":"2019-02-26T18:31:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T00:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=24237"},"modified":"2019-02-27T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T03:56:00","slug":"when-your-own-argument-can-be-turned-on-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/02\/26\/when-your-own-argument-can-be-turned-on-you\/","title":{"rendered":"When Your Own Argument Can Be Turned On You"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been watching the measles outbreaks with grim bemusement (yeah, figure that one out), as they center around areas in which anti-vaccination crusades have taken hold. In other words, they’re paying the price for their own bad judgment, which is not a bad way for things to go. WaPo<\/strong><\/em><\/a> published an article on the subject today, which includes this dubious remark:<\/p>\n

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Jill Collier, a registered nurse, told lawmakers she was against the [vaccination] bill because she believed it would harm the doctor-patient relationship. \u201cWe cannot blanket-mandate an injection for a child and hold their education hostage for noncompliance,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And why not? Look at it the other way: your unvaccinated kid forces those children who are implicitly incapable of tolerating the vaccine (such as for genetic reasons) to stay away from school for their own safety. You’ve just denied them an education just as much as this bill might restrict your’s.<\/p>\n

Only, unlike your behavior, their’s is not voluntary.<\/p>\n

For a post from long ago on the subject of vaccinations and public health, see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been watching the measles outbreaks with grim bemusement (yeah, figure that one out), as they center around areas in which anti-vaccination crusades have taken hold. In other words, they’re paying the price for their own bad judgment, which is not a bad way for things to go. WaPo published \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24246,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24237\/revisions\/24246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}