Quote Originally Posted by kygorski View Post
For awhile I thought i had a rep candidate I could vote for. He still has some ideas I like, but I'm afraid he screwed up big time. He took a page from the Frist play book[the guy who pronounced malvo alive]. While vaccinations are still a matter of choice, its a poor choice that was made with the measles.Now the " cured" disease is back. There are folks out there who are endangering other folks children with their "choice". I'm not an example of healthy clean living, but I'm responsible for My bad habits. I'm not gping to sue the tobacco industry, or fast food, and I'm not going to stop my life style for global warming.but I think its genuine. Nuff already!
Paul, in comments on conservative talk-radio show host Laura Ingraham’s show Monday, said he’s “not anti-vaccine at all.”“But particularly, most of them ought to be voluntary,” he added. Paul cited incidents where you have “somebody not wanting to take the smallpox vaccine, and it ruins it for everybody else.”
“I think there are times in which there can be some rules, but for the most part it ought to be voluntary,” Paul went on. “While I think it’s a good idea to take the vaccine, I think that’s a personal decision for individuals to take.”
He also said he was “annoyed” that his kids were supposed to receive the Hepatitis B vaccine as newborns, and that he had doctors space out the 10 vaccines they wanted to give his infant children over time.
And in a later interview with CNBC, Paul suggested he had seen the negative effects of vaccines that those in the anti-vax movement cite in their opposition. None, however, are widely supported by the scientific community, and Paul’s office did not respond to a request for comment for details.
“I’ve heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines,” Paul said. “I’m not arguing vaccines are a bad idea. I think they’re a good thing. But I think the parents should have some input.”