Law Requiring California Parents To Vaccinate Their Children Likely To Pass

[daredtowork]

11. I can smell the backfire burning

California doesn't have the same cultural/intellectual profile as West Virginia or Mississippi. What we do have is a thriving population of independent spirits and creative thinkers that combine the rebellious flavor of the 60s with the sense they are pioneers of the future. And, yes, sometimes that creative spirit weaves a world of dumb.

Did I mention everyone over 40 comes from a generation that was hard-wired not to trust big science (especially when inflicted by big corporations, big agriculture, big pharma, big govt - anything big will treat people like ants and be run by mysterious agendas)?

Taking away freedom of choice in this matter - especially when it involves injecting conspiracy-mongering substances in people's bodies is bad juju. There will almost certainly be a Heroic Resistance and theories about who benefited from the law. Worse, as a personal liberty issue, it could become a political swing issue. Think rise of a Nader-like splinter third party, when California has been a reliably Democratic State for years!

Before people pile on me again, I'm fully vaccinated and get all my flu shots. Also my graduate degree was initially in History of Science. Leonard Nimoy rocked. I'm not here to bash science. I've been trying to offer people some insight about my Silent Spring generation that will probably, at this point, pop up as an unpleasant surprise.

/Cassandra. Again.