I would support a Constitutional amendment affirming one’s right to block anti-vaxxers on Twitter. I mean, as long as we’re chipping away at the First Amendment anyway, let’s at least chip in the right places.
One of the “unwritten amendments” in the Constitution.
“The freedom to be stupid shall not be abridged”
These anti-vaxxers are straight out of the diseased mind of Alex Jones and Jenny McCarthy. They see demons under every rock and are convinced vaccines cause autism, etc. They would gladly allow a massive measles outbreak if it means thumbing their nose at what they consider an overreaching government. They’re idiots and dead wrong. They’ll remain anti-vaxxers until their kids contract some fatal disease from an unvaccinated child. These women are too clueless to have ever studied polio and small pox. They should STFU.
“In Pan’s case, both women have anti-vaccine messages on their Twitter pages and refer to Pan’s postings including one in which he discusses a law he co-sponsored in 2015 that requires medical justification for a child to skip immunization.”
In my limited medical understanding, the concept of immunization uses a "herding(?)’ model. So when you elect to exempt your children, ignoring established medical science, you rob all the other children of thier right to immunize.
Again not a medical doctor, but amazed that this message is not more broadly explained.
My two cents.
Aren’t they the two people with the bumper stickers on their car that say “Bring Back Smallpox”.
Even complete idiots have first amendment rights.
Pan is a public persona and an elected official. This just goes with the territory.
the lawsuit, which asks for the women to be restored and
for unspecified damages, fees and costs.
he he … thought so —
Restored to what? They want a free spa membership? It’s idiots like this that drive my infection control specialist daughter nuts. She doesn’t respond to measles vaccine. She’s had 5 shots and still can’t produce antibodies. She depends on herd immunity. There is no person-society duality. And the public health externalities, induced by the anti-vaxxers, that are borne by society are immense. These two owe us money.
There lies a chippery slope.
Still remember the measles outbreak when I was in the second grade which killed two of my classmates. Another one was blinded. I wound up being in bed for 3 weeks from it.
Yet these anti-vaxxers see nothing wrong with “culling the herd”
Or else what? Spanky is still blocking twitter users despite a Judge having ruled it unconstitutional. No repercussions for that.
As horrible as the anti-vax movement is, they did put thiomersal on the radar. Organomercury compounds being injected into children is something we should have been monitoring a long long time ago.
It wouldn’t be surprising to learn that these women don’t know that California law mandates vaccinations before children can be enrolled in school (thank you, Governor Brown). So unless they’re going to homeschool their spawn they should let go of today’s hate project.
“We’re dangerous loons and we demand to be heard,” Rummel and Burkitt said in a statement from Stanford University Hospital where their children have been quarantined for measles.
So are there degrees of blocking on Twitter, or does blocking someone from commenting on your stuff also block them from seeing you? Because a big part of the Trump case was about people being prevented from seeing official presidential proclamations.
Yes. You can neither see nor comment on their tweets.
I remember the polio epidemic of the 1950s. My mother was in a constant state of terror for us. We weren’t allowed to go near standing water, even rain puddles. When the vaccine came along, we were first in line. When we got the measles, my brother and I were bedridden in a room where my mother had blocked out all the sunlight.
It’s hard for people today to understand how terrible these diseases were and are. Somewhere in the back of their heads they think their doctor will give their child a pill and make it all better. Emergency rooms fix everything.
One of my kids had immune-system issues during his first year or so of life, so that the efficicacy of traditional vaccines was questionable for him. We relied on a combination of isolation and herd immunity. So my reaction to the anti-vaxxers is pretty visceral. They want to kill my kid and kids like him.
These ladies, with their anti-vaxxing and their litigation, are they trying to create a Pan-demic?
I’ll get my coat.