Robert Reich (RBReich): I remember having measles as a kid. It was no fun | Opinion
I remember having measles as a kid. Believe me, it was no fun. Also, measles could cause birth defects if a pregnant women got infected. If you were elderly, measles could be fatal.
Last Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention renewed an urgent call for parents to have their children vaccinated. Trump has finally stopped pushing this lie. Last week he tersely said “they have to get the shots”, which is about as much of a concession to the truth anyone can expect from America’s liar-in-chief.Let’s be clear. To eradicate measles—and other dread diseases such as tuberculosis, polio and tetanus —parents must have their children vaccinated.
Partly it’s laws that make vaccination compulsory. Yet right now only three states require vaccinations for children to attend kindergarten without any nonmedical exceptions. In all sorts of ways, each of us might prefer to rely on everyone else doing certain things so we don’t have to—whether following mundane norms such as not littering or of giving up our seat on the bus to an older person, or simply obeying laws that are rarely or inadequately enforced, or taking on more heroic roles like teaching in a poor school, being a social worker, serving in the armed services or acting as a first responder.
Some demagogues insist our national identity depends on the whiteness of our skin, our European heritage and our English language. And on keeping “others” out.
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