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Bring back our #ChildHoodDiseases, White House officials wife says as she criticizes vaccines
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/02/14/bring-back-our-childhooddiseases-white-house-communications-directors-wife-criticizes-vaccines/?utm_term=.1ef833c8ea01
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February 15
Darla Shine, the outspoken wife of White House communications director Bill Shine, has been tweeting about childhood diseases, claiming that illnesses such as measles, mumps and chickenpox keep you healthy & fight cancer. Health experts warn that the claim is not true and adds to misinformation that could cause harm.
Darla Shine, who has been known to tweet out stories with anti-vaccination claims, wrote Wednesday on Twitter that The entire Baby Boom population alive today had the #Measles as kids."
She added: I had the #Measles #Mumps #ChickenPox as a child and so did every kid I knew Sadly my kids had #MMR so they will never have the life long natural immunity I have. Come breathe on me!
Shines Twitter account has not been verified, but it notes that she is the wife of Bill Shine, assistant to #POTUS. The White House declined to comment about the tweets...........................................................Link to tweetLink to tweetLink to tweet
SunSeeker
(51,814 posts)Initech
(100,150 posts)Livluvgrow
(377 posts)combined with the loon from fox news who hasn't washed his hands in years makes me believe it is a coordinated effort to attack public health within our country
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)plague! And make sure the anti vaxxers have no access to the drugs! Oh just kidding. I would try and help them even tho the adults don't want any help.
DURHAM D
(32,619 posts)Ilsa
(61,720 posts)There is simply no guarantee of that. Does she think she doesn't need a tetanus booster?
I hope she gets shingles so she'll know how devastating chicken pox has been for thousands of other people who had chicken pox as a child, and no available vaccine for shingles until recently.
That would be some awesome karma if she got shingles. She's certifiable.
Ilsa
(61,720 posts)Trying her best to arrange it for others.
Hekate
(91,047 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,930 posts)Most people don't realize that by the late 19th century a new strain of smallpox had appeared, known as variola minor. It was far less deadly than the original form, variola major as in it only killed 1%-3% of its victims, and more importantly, didn't scar. Those who got it didn't get as sick as quickly, and so remained mobile meaning this version spread far more that the original. Best of all, if you got it and recovered you had life-long immunity. In fact, it was, because of this new strain, more or less becoming one of the childhood diseases, and had the means of vaccinating against not already been around, it probably would have been seen as such.
So yeah, let's bring back smallpox in the form of variola minor while we're at it.
Oh, oh! Let's also bring back diptheria and polio. You know, cull the herd. Only the strongest and most fit will survive all these diseases. Plague! The Black Death sounds like it would likewise do a lot of culling.
Really, she's not thinking it through.
And anyone who thinks I'm serious, think again.
IggleDuer
(964 posts)Get all the diseases. Some will die.
dlk
(11,606 posts)spanone
(135,950 posts)Last edited Sat Feb 16, 2019, 05:38 PM - Edit history (2)
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)By Jen Kirby
Jul 12, 2018, 7:20pm EDT
Bill Shine, Trumps new communications director, arrived to the job with a lot of baggage. He left Fox News in 2017, facing lawsuits that accused him of covering up allegations of sexual harassment at the network. He was considered the enforcer for disgraced network chief Roger Ailes ...
Shines brand is personal. She began her career as a TV producer at where else Fox News. She built a career off her decision to become a stay-at-home-mom and homemaker, writing a 2005 book called Happy Housewives, which is described as a modern-day guide to keeping house, raising kids, and loving life. The New York Times called it an ode to female empowerment through 1950s-style domesticity ...
... Mediate collected a slew of tweets on her now-deleted account, which include a bizarre range of racial and sexist jabs. She targets black people, Islamic insanity, black people, Stormy Daniels, and vaccines ...
She .. expressed disgust that people were blaming the Confederate flag instead of big pharma after Dylann Roofs mass shooting at a historically black church in South Carolina in 2015 ...
Shine also responded with a racist meme to defend Trumps infamous shithole countries comment, posting a side-by-side picture that purported to show ancient Rome compared to African huts today ...
https://www.vox.com/2018/7/12/17565702/darla-shine-white-house-bill-shine-racist-tweets-n-word-anti-vaxxer
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)but then again, a persons religion beats science right? (sarcasm)
Pobeka
(4,999 posts)Those were the good 'ol days, weren't they?
TheFarseer
(9,328 posts)People that dont know what theyve talking about should STFU. It makes me wonder can they really be this dumb or is there a more sinister angle?
peggysue2
(10,853 posts)That looked like a character building disease! My uncle spent 14 months in an Iron Lung after he contracted lumbar polio. He was in the last Iron Lung ward at Thomas Jefferson Hospital in Philly. I'm sure they hated to close the place. Since they were fighting cancer and all that.
Meanwhile my generation was vaccinated. Think my Uncle Merrill would have had a far different perspective than Ms. Shine's.