Article sadly shows how partisan vaccination policy can--but shouldn't--be. CO bill will simply req parents wanting to opt-out to get signed doc from a med. professional or watch online vid. Yet GOP Sen. cites concerns. This is literally informed choice.https://www.cpr.org/2020/02/03/gov-polis-says-hell-back-new-regulations-for-vaccination-opt-outs/ …
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The same thing is happening in many states. Here in Michigan,
@MIGOP keeps trying to make measles great again.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/make-measles-great-again-a-case-study-of-the-politicization-of-school-vaccine-requirements-in-michigan/ …1 reply 3 retweets 6 likes -
During the 2018
@MIGOP primaries, one of the candidates in my district even held an antivaccine panel discussion. My state rep and state senator (who was running for governor) showed up.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/08/03/jeff-noble-kerry-bentivolio-host-antivax/ …1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes -
These happenings lead me to conclude that
@GOP has become the antivaccine party. True, most Republicans are not antivax, but the party is now friendly to antivaxxers, and@TheDemocrats are not.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/10/25/the-republican-party-has-become-the-antivaccine-party/ …1 reply 2 retweets 7 likes -
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Basically, what happened is that antivaxxers learned to frame their opposition to school vaccine mandates as an issue of "freedom" and "parental rights," as well as opposition to "big government" interference in people's lives.
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That small government, anti-regulation libertarian angle served as the gateway for a lot of conservatives to be exposed to antivaccine conspiracy theories and pseudoscience, leading some of them to become antivaccine.
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In Ohio,
@ohiogop has been trending more and more antivaccine.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/11/13/ohio-statehouse-antivaccine/ …2 replies 2 retweets 3 likes -
Thanks. Indeed. Even if not antivax, the usual quote ("tell") is an elected official saying something of the form: "I believe vaccines are important/vaccinate my own own kids, but... [Insert some subtle dogwhistle or explicit line about a parent's choice, freedom, or liberty]."
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Well, yes. I call those antivaccine dog whistles and have been writing about them for at least five years, when they became particularly prevalent during the push to pass SB 277 in California.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/01/23/dr-bob-sears-perfecting-the-art-of-the-antivaccine-dog-whistle/ …
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Unfortunately, @GOP is now such that even candidates for office who are not antivaccine feel obligated to pander to the antivaccine fringe.
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Definitely growing. Starting a few studies that aim to systematically study this nationally.
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