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Archae

(46,340 posts)
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 12:01 PM Oct 2015

It's official, anti-vaxxers are republicans.

Well, just look at all the anti-vaxxers in the GOP presidential ranks. (And they sure are rank.)

RNC Member: Disease Outbreaks Caused By Socialism In Schools, Not Anti-Vaxxers

Submitted by Miranda Blue on Thursday, 10/29/2015 10:17 am

Tamara Scott, an Iowa conservative activist who serves as a Republican National Committee member for the state, invited two anti-vaccine activists on to her “Truth for Our Time” radio program last week, where she said that the real problem causing disease outbreaks in schools isn’t people refusing to be vaccinated but instead the new “socialistic” model of schooling where children are forced to share pencils.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rnc-member-disease-outbreaks-caused-socialism-schools-not-anti-vaxxers#sthash.bFzpRUQm.dpuf

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It's official, anti-vaxxers are republicans. (Original Post) Archae Oct 2015 OP
If only we coud vaccinate against stupidity HassleCat Oct 2015 #1
When I was in school before there were vaccines against measles, mumps, chicken pox, etc. drm604 Oct 2015 #2
 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
1. If only we coud vaccinate against stupidity
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 12:14 PM
Oct 2015

Wait! What am I saying? They would just refuse that one, too.

drm604

(16,230 posts)
2. When I was in school before there were vaccines against measles, mumps, chicken pox, etc.
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 12:20 PM
Oct 2015

we all got all of those diseases, and we got them even though we didn't have "socialistic pencil sharing". The problem then was a lack of vaccines, not socialism.

Epidemic diseases, by their very nature, have to be controlled at a societal level, which means regulations and cooperation by the citizenry; things that this woman would call "socialism".

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