An Arizona cardiologist told CNN in an interview that went online Monday that he doesn’t care if his refusal to vaccinate his kids gives other children grave, preventable diseases.
“I’m not going to sacrifice the well-being of my child. My child is pure,” Dr. Jack Wolfson said in the interview. “It’s not my responsibility to be protecting their child.”
Wolfson was responding to a public appeal for all parents to vaccinate their children from Arizona pediatrician Dr. Tim Sacks, whose leukemia-stricken daughter was exposed to measles after an unvaccinated American family introduced the disease into the greater population during a trip to Disneyland.
Wolfson was interviewed last week by television station KPNX as a source on the debate over vaccinations, calling himself “the paleo-cardiologist,” according to the report.
The doctor said that children should not avoid getting infections such as measels and mumps. “These are the rights of our children to get it,” he told KPNX.
Back on CNN, Wolfson dismissed his fellow doctor’s appeal to anti-vaxxers.
“As far as I’m concerned, it’s very likely that her leukemia is from vaccinations in the first place,” Wolfson said.
The CNN interviewer asked Wolfson repeatedly if he could live with himself if his unvaccinated child got other children, like Sacks’ daughter, fatally sick.
“I could live with myself easily. It’s an unfortunate thing that people die, but people die. And I’m not going to put my child at risk to save another child,” he said.
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Guess he missed the day, they did the Hippocratic Oath. Although this is evidence of such a callous disregard for the well being of others, I’m not sure it would’ve mattered.
Fits right nicely into the overarching “America is no longer a place in which I want to live because it’s not exactly the way I want it to be” mindset of the conservatives. They pretty much threw the social contract out the window the second they realized it would have to include people they don’t like and would not always guarantee that they control everything at all times such that they can remake everything in their image. This fucktard should have his license to practice medicine revoked. And you just know what he means by all this “their child” crap…you know exactly whose children he meant (hint: this is AZ).
My disgust for this wretch is partially offset by delight when I see the words “evil” and “clown car” show up prominently when I Google the dude’s name.
Wow.
Just.Wow.
This guy is a doctor? And he has a license to practice medicine? Wow.
Maybe Ben Carson has found his running mate!
They need to come up with a vaccine that will cure the genetic defect that causes right wing extremism