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'Killing kids to own the libs': Americans horrified after Tennessee shuts down all child vaccination programsTennessee Republicans' war against childhood vaccinations reached a new level on Tuesday after Tennessean reported that the state's health department "will halt all adolescent vaccine outreach not just for coronavirus, but all diseases amid pressure from Republican state lawmakers."
The halt to child vaccine programs comes just one day after Tennessee's top vaccine official was fired for what she claimed were her efforts to promote COVID-19 vaccinations for teenagers.
That firing came weeks after Republican Tennessee State Rep. Scott Cepicky held a public hearing in which he attacked the department for making fliers encouraging "impressionable" teens to get vaccinated.
https://www.rawstory.com/vaccine-tennessee/
bearsfootball516
(6,378 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,548 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)controversial ideologically for a long time. Some may feel that not allowing adolescents to make health decisions is a moral crime, but criminalizing it might be problematic. After all, who'd be arrested and by whom? The state officials who voted not to allow it, with the approval of many parents and other groups?
XanaDUer2
(10,932 posts)I_UndergroundPanther
(12,511 posts)A bunch of psychopaths,
narcissists and authoritarians.
They openly display what they've always been nowadays.
They have no compassion,empathy,or moral character.
They do not have the traits that make human beings humane.
They suck at being people.
They need to be put out of any place of power.
And I think candidates need to have sociopathy testing to make sure they never get power again.
You cannot run a government without compassion, morality or empathy.
Dark triad personalities are the biggest danger we face politically.
TDale313
(7,820 posts)I have list count of how many times today that has gone through my mind
Calculating
(2,957 posts)The republican party has become something ugly and soulless.
Me.
(35,454 posts)who's more impotant ...their children or TFG
elleng
(131,521 posts)and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.[1] The trial was deliberately staged in order to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, where it was held. Scopes was unsure whether he had ever actually taught evolution, but he incriminated himself deliberately so the case could have a defendant.[2][3]
Scopes was found guilty and fined $100 (equivalent to $1,500 in 2020), but the verdict was overturned on a technicality. The trial served its purpose of drawing intense national publicity, as national reporters flocked to Dayton to cover the big-name lawyers who had agreed to represent each side. William Jennings Bryan, three-time presidential candidate and former Secretary of State, argued for the prosecution, while Clarence Darrow served as the defense attorney for Scopes. The trial publicized the FundamentalistModernist controversy, which set Modernists, who said evolution was not inconsistent with religion,[4] against Fundamentalists, who said the Word of God as revealed in the Bible took priority over all human knowledge. The case was thus seen both as a theological contest and as a trial on whether modern science should be taught in schools.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_Trial
AZ8theist
(5,551 posts)Rejection of science in favor of woo.
It is literally killing children right now.
elleng
(131,521 posts)opting for ignorance.
AZ8theist
(5,551 posts)..of the trial.
Not very accurate, but entertaining nonetheless.
RainCaster
(10,975 posts)It must be so proud.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)RainCaster
(10,975 posts)3catwoman3
(24,164 posts)Marsha Stupidburn.
paleotn
(18,029 posts)niyad
(114,062 posts)paleotn
(18,029 posts)niyad
(114,062 posts)11 Bravo
(23,928 posts)rurallib
(62,500 posts)Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)all child vaccination programs'
It's of course still deplorable but nowhere near as bad as the click-bait headline presents the matter
Apart from CV19 the most common 'teen vaccine' would be the HPV one.
Just saying.
Ilsa
(61,721 posts)crickets
(26,002 posts)about the extent of the TN DOH reaction that included her firing:
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/health/2021/07/12/covid-19-tennessee-fired-vaccine-official-michelle-fiscus-fears-state/7945291002/
True, the vaccines are still available, but the informational outreach programs that reminded parents to see that their children of any age are vaccinated on time for anything -- gone. That is a big deal, and a huge failure on the part of TN DOH. Also true is that the Raw Story article sensationalized more than it informed.
sheshe2
(84,125 posts)10 children on life support as Mississippi sees surge in delta variant cases
Tennessee and Mississippi, lowest vacs rates are now killing off their own children.
PortTack
(32,840 posts)Get their kids vaccinated.
ABC featured one of the families and the child in medical coma is now in real failure!
sheshe2
(84,125 posts)It wasn't in the articles I read.
So heartbreaking.
underpants
(183,114 posts)Good God!
Botany
(70,686 posts)sheshe2
(84,125 posts)I had that when I was 5 years old, in the 50's.
I was quarantined in my house for a month. Dr and mom the only ones that were allowed in. Yes, back when doctors paid house calls. My baby brother sent to my aunts house.
Botany
(70,686 posts)... but they aren't really sure what it was.
sheshe2
(84,125 posts)She did great things.
Javaman
(62,540 posts)then that asshole wakefield fucked it all.
now "childhood" diseases will explode in this nation as other moron red states run with this idea.
one would think this virus would have clued people in but no. it will now take a fucking plague to get people to change their minds.
measles and chicken pox are horrible diseases and these idiots are letting the tenn. gov play russian roulette with their kids lives.
wait till one of these moron adults get a scorching case of shingles, they will change their tunes very quickly.
fucking idiots.
UpInArms
(51,299 posts)My disgust for them grows daily
paleotn
(18,029 posts)left my ole home state and never looked back.
Traildogbob
(8,930 posts)Republican spawn will die for generations to come. Sarcasm
We all become vulnerable, can measles, small pox, polio et al mutate?
Damn it God, call your people home. Start with your second favorite son, the Donald.
Initech
(100,166 posts)These idiots aren't "owning" anyone. Seriously, grow up conservatives.
bringthePaine
(1,747 posts)YoshidaYui
(41,876 posts)Republicans Are Assholes... why don't they just change the name of the party to ..."We're a bunch of Assholes who want a dictator in this country " party ?? because they are??
Diraven
(554 posts)Vaccines weren't a polarizing political issue until TFG decided that COVID denial was the best way keep the good economy going to help his reelection. See how that turned out: 600k+ Americans dead, the economy tanked anyway, and TFG lost the election. All because they still can't admit that TFG (and consequently they, for believing him) might have been wrong.
Chicago1980
(1,968 posts)Republicans have never cared about the kids, only women's vaginas.
Another reason not to live in a red state.
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AllaN01Bear
(18,982 posts)now this is gettin downright low and dangerous.
lindysalsagal
(20,816 posts)That's the brutal GQP philosophy.
DallasNE
(7,404 posts)The impressionable adolescents are under the control of the parents/guardian. They cant just go to the corner drugstore and get a shot. Some family values this is. Protect the unborn in all circumstances but take away all protections once they are born. Sick.
Blue Owl
(50,630 posts)USA! USA! Make America Great Again!
hadEnuf
(2,228 posts)Purposely obscuring information and access to potentially life-saving vaccines for political gain with the nutcase crowd?
These monsters need to be stopped.
EndlessWire
(6,602 posts)What is wrong with them?? My family originated in Tennessee, and I have relatives there still. But, you just gotta ask yourself, is it the water??
Dunno about TN, but here in California you have to show MMR vaccination or a blood titer in order to work in a hospital. It's part of your documentation, as important as your license. Man, where can you go to live nowadays that isn't filled with idiots?
And, why is it that the cream of the idiot crop always rise to hold power over other, normal people? Because we are not politicians, busy raising families, working on careers, and we looked away for one tenth of a second?? My goodness, surely they can't mean they will not vaccinate against childhood diseases? They can't mean that.
moondust
(20,037 posts)should be a crime.
lame54
(35,388 posts)Ilsa
(61,721 posts)many teens, or cause them to need amputations. Parents will want to take their kids out of state to see other pediatricians if TN ties their hands in state.
Also, this affects HPV vaccinations of 12 year old girls.
Volaris
(10,284 posts)We will see how long that lasts when parents come face to face with another year of (otherwise unnecessary) distance learning lol!
dickthegrouch
(3,198 posts)Are there any Federal regulations or requirements for being a State?
Can we have the current administration write some if not?
Can federal funds be withheld until they rescind the policy?
I seem to remember substantial funds being withheld to force both speed limits, and 21 as a drinking age.
alterfurz
(2,476 posts)Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. Margaret Atwood