Discussion: Scott Walker: States Should Decide Whether Vaccinations Are Mandatory

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Not according to the Supreme Court

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Awesome, because clearly viruses and epidemics are willing to respect state boundaries.

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A reasonable approach, since studies show that diseases never cross state lines.

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Dang, you beat me by seconds.

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Every time Scott Walker speaks is a test to see how long you can hold out not punching someone in the face.

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Fascist! Leave it up to the babies themselves!!

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Ha, well it’s the most obvious response to this kind of derp. I’m starting to wonder if the increasing Republican extremism on ‘state rights’ will soon lead to them arguing that we need to secure state borders and come up with some immigration system to prevent people from moving from one state to another. For example, if someone lives in Mississippi and wants to move to a state with more regulations/laws to prevent the transmission of communicable diseases, should that state be allowed to test interstate migrants for disease before allowing them to enter? Should Wisconsin be allowed to demand English and citizenship tests from interstate migrants coming from states with weaker educational standards?

Republicans and Scott Walker apparently want to turn the United States of America into the Divided and Conquered States of America. After all, Balkanization will allow corporations and the financial elite to have even more power and influence. Hooray for the new feudalism!

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If Scott’s state has a mandatory law that everyone get vaccinated than they should be able to deny anyone coming into their state who isn’t? Somehow I don’t see that happening. According to Scott anyone who has been exposed to measles can come into his state and spread the disease to those who have not been vaccinated yet or their immunization has run out. We might as well live in Europe where each country is the size of Texas and not in the US because according to Scott Arizona, NM, Florida etc. are all their own country and can do whatever they please.

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This should work as well as our ridiculous patchwork of gun laws, because guns from Alabammy and Virginia never ever end up here in NYC.

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This is actually one of the dumbest things I have ever heard.

That’s my boy! Showing strong leadership at the national level. Presidential stuff.

“let the states decide”…decisive.

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Clearly Walker is a megalomaniac hell bent on centralizing power.
Complex matters of public health should be debated and decided at the municipal utility district level.

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Such a shame that this vaxx issue isn’t running in the middle of the repugnant primaries.
Sure hope that people remember this nonsense in 18 months.

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And the Delta airline employee in Atlanta has never helped smuggled guns onto planes en route to New York.

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“My wife and I send out a card to all newborns, in conjunction with Hallmark, to encourage people to get vaccinated,”

How nice for Hallmark.

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Haha “…send out a card to all newborns…” Because newborns can read? Or are they just meant to gum the edge of a vaccination-laced card?

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“My wife and I send out a card to all newborns, in conjunction with Hallmark, to encourage people to get vaccinated,”

I suggest that, in the future, the Governor sends the card to the parents of all newborns and not to the newborns themselves since it is unlikely that they can read the part about getting vaccinated. However, I’m sure the newborns enjoy the pretty colors of a Hallmark card.

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Is this an attempt to distance himself from American Greetings?

Koch subsidiary aids deal to take American Greetings private

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It always amazes me how the right’s constantly proclaiming their fidelity to the Constitution, when the principles that guide them clearly come straight from the Articles of Confederation. Which we ditched because all that individual-states-RULE! stuff was working so well.

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