Christie and Paul made a stupid mistake by picking up this bit of left-winger stupidity and running with it. If they back away fast enough, it’ll blow over.
Let’s hope it knocks both those turds out of the race.
And what bit of stupidity would that be? That the government doesn't own your kids?
They didn't say avoid vaccination, they said the government should not be able to force vaccination.
How do you figure being against forced healthcare is left-wing stupidity?
Sure there are situations when someone should not be immunized. Take Small pox for example. Babies were not immunized before they turned one year old. Also if the baby had a serious illness including skin infection during it's first year of life, the mother/ parents had to wait another year to get the toddler immunized, The same with the booster immunization which was given to the child at age of 12 years
Now take my daughter for example. She was born in Germany in 1970 while we were stationed there. It was my husband's second tour there (different station than his first one which was from 1961 to 1966 during the Berlin Crisis.
During the summer of 1970 my husband was on orders for Vietnam. We had already cleared our government quarters and lived in a Army Hotel where we waited for our Port call. Someone goofed up and did not include my oldest son, (my husband's stepson) who was 10 years old at the time, although he had been a legal immigrant in 1966 just like I was when my husband brought us over to the states when his first tour in Germany was finished. In March of 1963 our son was born in Germany and because he was born in an American hospital he was born as a natural born citizen, just like his sister who btw was born in the same hospital. I even had the same midwife with her when her brother was born almost 7 years earlier.
After the mistake was corrected and we received all our port calls Thomas,my oldest son who had been attending school came down with the measles. Notice there was no measles immunization at that time. So we had to post pone our port call.
After he was over his measles, Dean, his younger brother came down with the measles. So my husband said to me, that's it, I am taking you and the kids to your parents until they are well again.
At the time Dean came down with the measles I noticed a rash also on the baby who was 7 month old. Two day later or so she was getting a temperature of 104°F. and was unable to keep her food down. My dad had a college of his drive me and my daughter to the American dispensary which was a little over 8 miles away from my hometown. The idiot at the dispensary who checked her out, said there was nothing wrong with her. Remember the baby had a fever of 104°F.
Anyway my husband came the next evening but it was to late to drive to the dispensary, so we took the baby there the next morning. The doctor who saw her told my husband the baby is very sick that he would not need to examine her and to take her immediately to the hospital. He asked if we wanted to go by Medivac helicopter or drive our self. Because my husband was using my dad's car we chose to take her in his car.
After we got to the hospital and she had ben examined and given a spinal tap her doctor notified us that she had Meningitis not the spinal kind, but the kind that affects the lining of the brain.
She remained in the hospital for almost 3 month until she was well enough to travel, which was the beginning of December. They had me going with her via Medivac from Ramstein, Germany to the Navy station at Jacksonville, Fl, where she had to stay at the civilian hospital in Jacksonville a week or so until she was released. My husband and the boys came a couple of days after the baby and I had arrived.
Because of her illness my daughter could not be immunized, which I of course knew already and then small pox was eradicated small pox immunization became obsolete