'Something is in those vaccines': Lawmaker says mandatory measles shots are 'Communist'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Amid a surging measles outbreak in the United States that has grown to about 160 cases in 10 states, Arizona’s legislature recently passed bills allowing for a religious exemption for required vaccination shots — a move that public health advocates warn could lead to fewer immunizations. Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, who describes himself as “pro-vaccination” and “anti-measles,” suggested Wednesday he would strike down those proposals.

But one state lawmaker begged to differ with the governor. Republican State Rep. Kelly Townsend, a five-term state representative who is no stranger to making controversial and befuddling statements on social media, took to Facebook on Thursday to bemoan that Arizona was “prepared to give up our liberty, the very sovereignty of our body, because of measles.”

Why? Because doing so would be “Communist.”

“I read yesterday that the idea is being floated that if not enough people get vaccinated, then we are going to force them to,” Townsend wrote on Thursday morning. “The idea that we force someone to give up their liberty for the sake of the collective is not based on American values but rather, Communist.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/something-is-in-those-vaccines-lawmaker-says-mandatory-measles-shots-are-communist/ar-BBUeXKA?li=BBnb7Kz

[dalton99a]

1. Kelly Townsend is alive and well because of that Communist plot

[MineralMan]

2. Them Commies Are Sapping Our "Precious Bodily Fluids"

John Birch Society Nutcase!

[Cold War Spook]

3. General Jack D. Ripper

"A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids" You beat me to it.

[Poiuyt]

6. Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?

[CDerekGo]

4. Can't we all say

That if we all received vaccines as kids, there's a good likelihood we're ALL HERE because of said Vaccines?

[Dennis Donovan]

5. Ripperian...

[procon]

7. So, based on his argument then he fully supports

a woman's right to choose, and agrees that there should be safe facilities available for women's health needs, including abortion...yeah?

He must also support science and the rights of the majority not to have their children exposed to unvaccinated kids who spread communicable diseases.

Parents who engage in this type of ignorance should be charged with conspiring to create a public health threat and confined to house arrest to stay at home with their unvaccinated kids, with a big red Quarantine sign nailed on the door. Likewise, anyone who is promoting these conspiracy theories should be restricted by a gag order to stop the insanity.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. 'She', not 'he'. And she's an extreme anti-abortion type, too

https://eu.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/legislature/2019/02/20/arizona-rep-townsend-draws-teardrops-face-protest-abortion-bill/2929413002/

[struggle4progress]

9. "You can't take away my measles until you pry it from my cold dead fingers!"

[ck4829]

10. Loony

[BeckyDem]

11. There are very good reasons why the GOP is a danger to the world. This is but one example.

Outrageous, deny science and then equate that denial with some imaginary "liberty."

[spanone]

12. the depth of ignorance in state legislators is astounding.