{"id":137796,"date":"2019-02-11T21:54:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T04:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/11\/typhoid-mary-insists-on-philosophical-right-to-spread-typhus.html"},"modified":"2019-02-11T21:54:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T04:54:27","slug":"typhoid-mary-insists-on-philosophical-right-to-spread-typhus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/11\/typhoid-mary-insists-on-philosophical-right-to-spread-typhus.html","title":{"rendered":"Typhoid Mary insists on philosophical right to spread typhus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington is one of a minority of states that allow parents to not vaccinate their kids for things like, oh, measles. And, hey presto, <i>there&#39;s now a measles epidemic in Washington,<\/i> so lawmakers are realizing this might have not been a good idea and are looking to correct it.<\/p>\n<p>Inevitably, some hardcore anti-vaxxer parents insist that they have a &quot;philosophical right&quot; to let their kids get and <i>spread<\/i> measles, because they believe vaccine-induced autism (based on thoroughly discredited and fraudulent science) is more of a real thing than the <i>actual measles cases<\/i> they can see around them, and because they believe the <i>very real risk<\/i> they are imposing on everyone else is trumped by their right to be doofuses.<\/p>\n<p>I grant I might be biased in the matter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/amp\/news\/washington-measles-outbreak-hundreds-rally-to-presesrve-not-to-vaccinate-children-2019-02-08\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/fr3Rg66-srB2lD5BXrZdXxKXkyYGoxj_HfuvEpRw0805NjXkZqeWUzPP1UoT_V8pYuCszEWvGeJ-2PvOZJ3dch_y-gnwUmSFzDuwHpDNWAAgWVXVHOtx5A5veQpafZbzcfDbeKXrQgbjEYVvR443Qskwgq9bVpv_ICHQYRHRemdt0tDQXoO-w2zlZFE84CRGL5yNuVgtDdJX7u1WSryHFvhev_IcX1XYxdUX9BNfMtkp7Q=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/amp\/news\/washington-measles-outbreak-hundreds-rally-to-presesrve-not-to-vaccinate-children-2019-02-08\/'>Hundreds rally to preserve right not to vaccinate children amid measles outbreak<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWashington currently allows parents to refuse vaccines for philosophical reasons\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/9tswuSg9idJ'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington is one of a minority of states that allow parents to not vaccinate their kids for things like, oh, measles. And, hey presto, there&#39;s now a measles epidemic in Washington, so lawmakers are realizing this might have not been a good idea and are looking to correct it. Inevitably, some hardcore anti-vaxxer parents insist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/11\/typhoid-mary-insists-on-philosophical-right-to-spread-typhus.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Typhoid Mary insists on philosophical right to spread typhus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49368,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/26\/measles-isnt-dangerous-yeesh.html","url_meta":{"origin":137796,"position":0},"title":"Measles isn&#039;t dangerous? 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