If only the press would stop covering Trump and pay attention to the serious candidates with informed ideas. https://t.co/YfLeG2bO4f
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) August 14, 2015
Fiorina adds that she thinks CA's vaccination mandate is a "mistake." "California is wrong on most everything, honestly."
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) August 14, 2015
I dunno, those Californians decisively rejected Carly…From Zeke Miller’s Time article:
Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina said that parents should have the right to not vaccinate their children for all diseases, but that schools should be able to exclude children who are unvaccinated for ommunicable diseases from attending class.
Speaking at a town hall on Thursday in Alden, Iowa, Fiorina responded to a question from a mother of five who claimed that one of her children had an adverse reaction to a vaccination, saying “It’s always the parent’s choice.” She continued by referencing her daughter, who Fiorina said was bullied by a school nurse into vaccinating her pre-teen daughter for the Human papillomavirus, a sexually transmitted disease. “Measles is one thing…,” Fiorina said.
“When you have highly communicable diseases where you have a vaccine that’s proven, like measles or mumps, then I think a parent can make that choice, but then I think a school district is well within their rights to say, ‘I’m sorry, your child cannot then attend public school,’” Fiorina explained to reporters after the event.
“So a parent has to make that trade-off,” she continued. “I think when we’re talking about some of these more esoteric immunizations, then I think absolutely a parent should have a choice and a school district shouldn’t be able to say, ‘sorry, your kid can’t come to school’ for a disease that’s not communicable, that’s not contagious, and where there really isn’t any proof that they’re necessary at this point.”…
Squalid common-folk diseases, sure, you can never be sure where the nanny or the landscapers might’ve been. But the kind of things one might pick up from, you know, surely not Our Kind of People…
Someone finally tracked down that elusive resemblance to a famous meme, though.
Angry Baby grown up #tcot #UniteBlue pic.twitter.com/5zg0NEfbe3
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) August 14, 2015
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Apart from angry babies, and the mocking of them, what’s on the agenda as we start the weekend?
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