When misinformation and politicized anti-science beliefs infect elected officials and neuter efforts to establish public health policies, we are all less safe. Failing to protect children by refusing to apply vaccination requirements during a global pandemic, with overwhelming evidence of vaccine effectiveness and safety, is simply unconscionable., is an assistant professor of public health at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
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It takes a special kind of stupid to still cling to the myth that u can control the spread of a virus. How can we share a society when 50% of the people are bat shit crazy hypochondriac cult members? National divorce is the only logical answer.