Jessica Biel Comes Out as Anti-Vaxx Activist
Tuesday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental activist whose recent work has focused increasingly on baseless allegations that vaccines are unsafe and can injure a statistically minuscule population of “medically fragile” children, appeared at the California State Assembly beside an unlikely scene partner: actress Jessica Biel. In a series of Instagram posts, first reported in Jezebel by Anna Merlan, the two posed with activists, legislators, and miscellaneous bureaucratic architecture. In the caption, Kennedy called Biel “courageous.”
The duo had come to lobby against SB 276, a California state bill that would limit medical exemptions from vaccinations without approval from a state public health officer. The bill has been decried by anti-vaxx advocates like Kennedy and vaguely critiqued by current Governor Gavin Newsom, over official estimations that it would reduce medical exemptions by nearly 40 percent.
Although reports circulated in 2015 that Biel and her husband, Justin Timberlake, did not plan to vaccinate their kids (“She feels that vaccination could cause complications,” a source told In Touch Weekly), Biel has never publicly commented on the vaccination debate. But on a phone call with The Daily Beast, Kennedy confirmed that the actress, whose past controversial opinions include insisting it is a “struggle” to get roles because she is too sexy, was “upset about this issue because of its particular cruelty.”
Kennedy, who takes issue with the label “anti-vaxx”—which he deems “pharmaceutical propaganda” and “a lie”—declined to align Biel with the controversial movement. “I would say that she was for safe vaccines and for medical freedom,” Kennedy said, before echoing an anti-vaxx rallying cry: “My body, my choice.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jessica-biel-comes-out-as-anti-vaxx-activist-joins-robert-f-kennedy-jr-to-lobby-against-ca-vaccination-bill?via=twitter_page
Loons. All of them.
Sid
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The smug self-assurance of the anti-vaxxers is borne of the unshakeable self-confidence that comes with near-total ignorance.
Normally I think people should have a right to their opinions, but when they can put thousands of lives in jeopardy, seriously, fuck anti vaccination crusaders. With extreme prejudice. 
All the same breed of stupid cut from different cloths. 
There are plenty of "sexy" actresses and actors who are getting roles. But whatever helps you sleep at night, Jessica. 
My son was born in 1970, way before this stuff started with the anti-vax protests. My son got his vaccinations against measles, mumps, whooping cough, the major children's diseases and we had no complications. So when he was 2 or 3 years old it was time to give him a polio vaccination, and the pediatrician said "No."
I was concerned about it and the doctor told me there hasn't been a case of polio in the USA for over 15 years (in 1973) and there probably won't be another one. I still didn't like that idea, and the doctor told me that my son could experience complications to the polio vaccine since I had occasional bouts of eczema (a minor skin rash) and it's possible my son could have inherited the tendency from me. If that were the case, my son might have a bad reaction to the polio vaccination. To this day I still worry, and my son is now 48 years old! He's not worried about coming in contact with polio but my goodness it would be devastating if he ever did.
I guess I'm just a crazy old Mom with too much on my mind.
Actors are now immunologists?
I post the text of the bill.
Sid
Brilliant.
