Vaccination mediatic blitz

[Mr Khan]

padib said:

 

Mr Khan said:

Or, instead of millions of dollars to appease the anti-science crowd, you just force them to get vaccinated.

I think this is part of the issue. Part of the revolt about this is that the cases of measles are being blown out of proportion and lead into the forced vaccination of people. So it seems disproportionate and the truther video I posted is trying to show us a pernicious trend.

This is also happening at the same time as increased militarisation of the police force in the United States. So it all points to a direction of more control over people, and so the concern is that over time companies may want to force vaccines on people that are not proven safe or that are possibly harmful while people are forced to take them. I'm not saying it's the case here but that seems to be the real trend.

Your multi-quote seems to be screwing with my ability to quote you.

The measles outbreak is not a "bad" problem in the grand scheme of things, i'll grant, but the trick of all of this is that this suffering was entirely preventable but for a few people who think that they know better. If there is a revolt, it's part of the long luddite reaction against modernity, sprouting up in odd crevices of society (interestingly, anti-vax was a buggaboo of the American Left until recently, when the Republicans are picking it up as part of their recent anti-government streak, like Tom Thillis and his "you don't have to wash your hands" weirdness). It's the revolt of romanticism against enlightenment, where the affective concept of natural purity clashes with biology and chemistry and other sciences. What you see here is a counterrevolution, as people get fed up with anti-vaxxer silliness and move to crush it.

The other end of your argument is a non-starter. In a world of pure theory your thought on a slippery slope of people being forced to take drugs is correct, but we don't live in a world of theory. In the real world, we have vaccines, tried, tested, and proven. People are rejecting these vaccines. Nobody is talking about forcing some experimental drug on people, and stamping out of anti-vax nonsense is not going to lead to that. As a macro concept, the slippery slope is a fallacy.