The Left’s War On Vaccinations and Personal Hygiene

They refuse to get their kids vaccinated, they are suspicious of fluoridated water and their kids are more likely to be inflicted with ringworm than the average American. Trailer park rednecks? Nope. America’s bobo elites. Scratch a liberal suburbanite and you’re likely to find the modern equivalent of an Appalachian clay chewer underneath. This week Fox 25 interviewed Natalie Norton of the Boston YMCA about “the recent resurgence of measles and whooping cough.” Yesterday CBS reported a whooping cough outbreak on Long Island, in the environs of the Hamptons. And on Tuesday the University of California at Berkeley alerted all students, faculty and staff to receive “an additional dose of the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine” due to an outbreak of the mumps. Not the Tennessee Institute of Over-The-Road Trucking, but elite, liberal Berkeley. These aren’t oddball anecdotes. The Associated Press reports that the anti-vaccine movement is on the rise, particularly in left-leaning states like Washington, Oregon, Michigan and Vermont. In crunchy-granola Ashland, Ore., health officials are intervening with public education efforts because the rate of immunization has dropped so low. Then this from Fox News: “Parents fearful of vaccinations are being warned by a federal prosecutor that making a deal with a stranger who promises to mail them lollipops licked by children with chickenpox isn’t just a bad idea, it’s against the law.” Think about that — letting your kid lick a stranger’s lollipop because you’re “fearful of vaccinations?” I thought this level of redneckery went out with the dousing rod. Instead it’s being embraced by Wellesley helicopter moms who don’t want their little snowflakes to get the needle. Megan McArdle at The Atlantic notes that one elite school in the San Francisco area has an immunization rate below 25 percent. “We spent most of the last century trying to… (Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com …