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Check this out:
Basically, she's fueling anti-vax hysteria here in this vid and during the DNC, she was tweeting out some patently anti-Hillary BS. So, I simply replied that people should vaccinate their damn kids.
I got some replies from her freaking fans, of course. However, none of them will state whether or not our gawd damned vaccinations are safe or not. It's not a hard concept to understand.
But, just has wacky as the faith-based wingers are, her fans are just as faith-based wacky as well:
@PoliticalAnt @DrJillStein @US_FDA And she thinks that she's going to change the system & keep vaxxes safe at the same time. R they unsafe?
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Anthony B. Retweeted Mr_Scorpio
.@DrJillStein would try if elected @POTUS and what matters is that anti-vaxxers THINK they're unsafe. https://mobile.twitter.com/Mr_Scorpio/status/758932434008223744?p=v #Jill2016
Anthony B.
What the actual fuck? This is about science... Not what a bunch of granola munchers are "thinking." Because when people "think" that they shouldn't vax their damn kids, bullshit like this happens:
An Ottawa mother of seven "defected" from the anti-vaccination movement, but then her youngest a 10-month-old son contracted whooping cough before she could get all of her children their shots.
Tara Hills told CBC News that since all her children, aged 10 and under, were showing symptoms of the contagious disease, they have been advised to take antibiotics and stay inside their Kanata home for five days.
Her first three children were partially vaccinated, she said. But she decided to stop after the fourth was born because she was suspicious of the medical community.
"I just got scared. I got spooked. I thought, 'There's a lot of smoke, there must be fire.' We stopped vaccinating," she said.
Hills said she had recently started rethinking her position on vaccinations. Before her youngest was diagnosed with whooping cough, she said, she met with her family doctor to put together a "catch-up vaccination schedule" for her children.
"It's very sobering and it's very raw because we had just made a more fully informed decision about vaccinations. We had just defected from the anti-vaccination camp," she said.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/tara-hills-ottawa-mom-changes-anti-vaccination-stand-but-7-kids-still-get-sick-1.3025592
We don't have the time and expense of all of our kids to be dealing with the kind of political opportunism that Jill Stein is sowing out there in the world. This is about life and death and not something to be played around with.
Tortmaster
(382 posts)... to the toddler killers. Sick.
JustAnotherGen
(32,067 posts)Never goes after Trump or Johnson and that tells me all I need to know. She can tweet until the cows come home and I will continue to disregard her.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)If they ever take a Republican to task, copy and save that . . . because it doesn't happen often.
liberal N proud
(60,352 posts)I get that the Bob's are upset, I have been there, but you know what, it's over, Hillary is the nominee. Grow up and move on. Better luck next time.
That's how it works!
I don't get how moving so far from the ideals that you are protesting for proves anything. Anything but that you really were not for those ideals to begin with.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)It's clear that they have no understanding of our nominating process.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,346 posts)I've gone off on a couple of people on FB over this.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)And understanding whether or not our present system of vaccination is safe or unsafe. They keep conflating these two different points.
I keep telling them that her mealy-mouthed objection to the system has absolutely nothing to do with stating, whether or not, kids are getting safe vaccines. Quite the opposite. What's she's doing is sowing doubt about the basic safety of the medicines, and in response, parents are neglecting to have their damn kids vaccinated.
Because of that neglect, their damn kids are coming down with preventable childhood diseases for no good fucking reason.
If Stein were to basically say that our vaccines are perfectly safe under the current system and parents should never have any reason to not vaccinate their gawd damned kids... BUT, we should seek a better, more efficient and more cost effective way to manufacture and distribute the medicine without losing the current level of safety, I could respect that position.
Or...
If she had concrete proof that our vaccines are unsafe and that we need to use the best practices of other countries, who do a better job of vaccinating their gawd damned kids, I could respect that also.
But she's not doing either one. All she's doing is playing politics with people's lives.
That bullshit is ridiculous.
GOLGO 13
(1,681 posts)Besides that she's a weirdo.