{"id":14515,"date":"2012-08-16T06:54:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T06:54:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-08-16T15:06:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T15:06:55","slug":"vaccines-matter-even-if-rob-schneider-doesnt-believe-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/16\/vaccines-matter-even-if-rob-schneider-doesnt-believe-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaccines Matter, Even if Rob Schneider doesn’t believe it"},"content":{"rendered":"

AB 2109<\/a> would require a note from a doctor to avoid vaccinations for public schools<\/i><\/p>\n

by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n

Vaccines save lives.<\/p>\n

That’s the truth. Real hard scientific evidence supports that statement<\/a>. Before we vaccinated for measles, rubella, whooping cough, these disease killed thousands of Americans each year. A generation later and these diseases were nearly wiped out.<\/p>\n

Then the logical fallacies took over. Those diseases aren’t dangerous anymore. It won’t matter if I don’t immunize my child, etc. But unfortunately, they are still necessary. No matter how many fear mongers or fake scientists or outright fraudsters<\/a> argue that they are not safe, they are safe. They are safer than the alternative. After all, not vaccinating is not without a very high level of risk.<\/p>\n

Yet people like Rob Schneider, who was kind of funny as an annoying copy boy, persist in fighting science with repetition of ignorance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Pretty much every word of that has been debunked. I won’t bother here in going through it all, but AB 2109 is a good bill from a good Assemblymember, Richard Pan. Pan, who just so happens to actually have training in these matters by virtue of being a medical doctor, understands the public health crisis that unvaccinated children present. The bill would require a letter from a doctor to the school if children skip a vaccination.<\/p>\n

This isn’t about the state controlling some godlike power. The state has the power to require car seats and seat belts; both of these are a decent analogy for the question of vaccines. This is a collective issue for all Californians. We all gain (or lose) when we have a healthy community.<\/p>\n

AB 2109 is in the Senate awaiting final approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AB 2109<\/a> would require a note from a doctor to avoid vaccinations for public schools<\/i><\/p>\n

by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n

Vaccines save lives.<\/p>\n

That’s the truth. Real hard scientific evidence supports that statement<\/a>. Before we vaccinated for measles, rubella, whooping cough, these disease killed thousands of Americans each year. A generation later and these diseases were nearly wiped out.<\/p>\n

Then the logical fallacies took over. Those diseases aren’t dangerous anymore. It won’t matter if I don’t immunize my child, etc. But unfortunately, they are still necessary. No matter how many fear mongers or fake scientists or outright fraudsters<\/a> argue that they are not safe, they are safe. They are safer than the alternative. After all, not vaccinating is not without a very high level of risk.<\/p>\n

Yet people like Rob Schneider, who was kind of funny as an annoying copy boy, persist in fighting science with repetition of ignorance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n

Pretty much every word of that has been debunked. I won’t bother here in going through it all, but AB 2109 is a good bill from a good Assemblymember, Richard Pan. Pan, who just so happens to actually have training in these matters by virtue of being a medical doctor, understands the public health crisis that unvaccinated children present. The bill would require a letter from a doctor to the school if children skip a vaccination.<\/p>\n

This isn’t about the state controlling some godlike power. The state has the power to require car seats and seat belts; both of these are a decent analogy for the question of vaccines. This is a collective issue for all Californians. We all gain (or lose) when we have a healthy community.<\/p>\n

AB 2109 is in the Senate awaiting final approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[10722],"class_list":["post-14515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-10722"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3M7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}