James Felix Black: My most illiberal stance is that childhood vaccination should be mandatory no exceptions.

Low vaccine uptake is, on a long enough timeline, a self-correcting problem (ominously)

OK, this is bad angusreid.org/canada-vacci...

Heh 😬

Measles is normally the first indicator, it really springs containment pretty early, mutates a lot, really makes a problem for itself, but pertussis kills babies and when the babies start to go people really snap to attention

People have forgotten how incredibly horrible childhood mortality is which is one of if not the greatest achievement of modern science. That parents are so brainfucked as to even consider not vaccinating their children is purest madness.

My hot take is that Andrew Wakefield should be hanged by the neck until dead.

My most illiberal stance is that childhood vaccination should be mandatory no exceptions.

Like we don’t let people have “religious exemptions” from running red lights!

also, all the major denominations support most vaccinations. these people are lying repository.uclawsf.edu/cgi/viewcont...

The Catholic Church, famously chill institution, suspended the necessity of Mass for the duration of the pandemic

there was a bishop in Kazakhstan or whatever who was the one guy officially saying COVID vaccines were illicit and a few of American Catholic antivaxxers ignored their own Bishop (not how it works. your Bishop is your Bishop for better or worse)

Funniest thing was someone called asking for a religious exemption from vaccination for work. I asked for their reason, they said they didn't want to put something in their body that they didn't know what was in it. I said oh, so you know what's in everything you put in your body?

I said at any rate, that's not a religious reason and I can't help you with this. I'm glad I asked for their reason instead of presuming what I thought it might be

Athanasius Schneider, an auxiliary bishop But focusing on the personal charisma of a figure is not particularly Catholic

I remember when this was starting to become really controversial (2021?) and other nurses were arguing "well, would you really forcibly vaccinate someone?" and: yes. absolutely yes I would

I mean I am a liberal! I believe in bodily autonomy! But I also believe that we live in a society and have positive obligations to our fellows!

I think I'd rather not get child protective services involved, so vaccines mandatory. Not kids fault their parents are trying to maim or kill them.

If you don't want to get vaccinated for a contagious disease, you should accept all responsibilty to make sure you don't carry one and infect other people (and have consequences if you do) They won't do that, either, and trying to enforce the consequences would require way too much government force

My proposal was 'Vaccine or the sea' because it was simple. You understood it right away. You could get the vaccine, or you could take to the sea.

(boats reserved for vaccine havers)

that is fine with me. If you are willing to endanger others in this manner you can learn how to swim

I'm old enough to remember being lined up in the elementary school cafeteria to get vaccinated with that scary gun. It was pretty mandatory ...

Not yet

Don’t give them any ideas!

“If you don’t want me to crash into you, then just stay home.”

I have a strongly held belief that the bank was storing money that rightfully belonged to me.

I feel like major insurance carriers could easily put a stop to this….dont want to get vaccinated? Fine, you’re not covered. At all.

they don't want to deal with the subsequent death threats and bombings. yes, those psychos will do that. they absolutely will.

That seems the likeliest way this happens (bleak)

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