T-cell Party Patriots

[HuckleB]

http://autism-news-beat.com/archives/808

"Is the anti-vaccine movement looking to Sarah Palin’s Tea Party Nation for inspiration? It seems that way, given that Generation Rescue is calling its May 26 rally in Chicago’s Grant Park “An American Rally for Personal Rights”. In just two years, the movement has gone from Green Our Vaccines to “The Tree of Liberty Needs to Be Watered with the Chelated Blood of Vaccine Injured Children.” What’s up with that?

It’s been two years since McCarthy led her angry mob of 2,500 parents and children through Washington D.C., under the focus-group tested “Green Our Vaccines” banner. The slogan played on parental anxiety over their children’s diets, the quality of the natural environment, and all the unknowns that come with modernity. A Green Vaccine was supposedly a safe vaccine, something you might find in Whole Foods, wrapped in hemp fiber and chilling next to the organic arugula.

Unfortunately for McCarthy, Green Vaccines have a short shelf life. Mean scientists attacked her for alleging, among other things, that vaccines contain anti-freeze and ether. They don’t, and never have. Layer by layer her arguments peeled away, revealing a silly marketing slogan unrelated to the physical world. That is as it should be, since the question of vaccine safety is best left to science, and the science was never on McCarthy’s side to begin with.

So the angry mob that will converge on Grant Park in two weeks is switching to plan B – it’s about the constitution, stupid. Welcome to T-Cell Party Nation. All that’s missing are the tri-corner hats and sidearms.

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The Tea Party is its own parody, and so is the anti-vaccine "movement." Thus, this shouldn't come as a surprise, I suppose.

:evilfrown:

[Odin2005]

1. It fits their stupidy, their spokeswoman is an ex-pornstar, after all.

That bimbo that thinks I have no soul can go strait to hell all I care.

[HuckleB]

2. You'll get no argument from me.

[gleaner]

3. The worst part about the anti vaccine paranoia ...

is that it preys on the fears of parents who don't have access to scientific studies and who wouldn't believe them if they did. As a result, parents have opted out of childhood vaccination programs leaving their own children and other people's children more vulnerable to the diseases which the vaccines controlled.

I recently read that both Measles and Chicken Pox are on the rise again among school age children, when they had very nearly been eradicated. These illnesses are going to hit recent generations of children much harder than they did us, because there are fewer and fewer children that age who have antibodies from routine exposure to the illnesses and who have acquired them through vaccination.

It is both senseless and tragic. The vaccinations were being given for a reason. To help keep children from getting sick and suffering some of the worst side effects of so called "childhood" illnesses and to help keep them from spreading to other vulnerable segments of the population like people whose immune systems have been suppressed by chronic illnesses and to the elderly.

[HuckleB]

4. What's more, it's the supposedly "more educated" parents who are opting out.

I'm not sure what that says about our education system.

[gleaner]

10. Yeah. That is what makes it so pathetic. n/t

[nemo137]

5. There's a big overlap between libertarian nutbags and woo-enthusiasts.

Draw your own conclusions as to why.

[HuckleB]

6. So it appears.

However, the "libertarianism" in all cases seems limited to whatever the enthusiasts want.

[nemo137]

7. I just finished reading, for my sins, the campaign book by the guy who wants to be the LP's 2012

presidential candidate. Big into holistic medicine and anti-vaxxer stuff.

[HuckleB]

8. Well, the escape from reality theme does fit in all those arenas.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Makes sense

Same level of ignorance.

[HuckleB]

11. Alas, you are spot on.