GOP Rep On Vaccines: An ‘Oppressive State’ Shouldn’t Tell Us What To Do

Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) discusses vaccines on MSNBC.
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Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) became the latest Republican on Tuesday to speak out against vaccine mandates, saying: “We should not have an oppressive state telling us what to do.”

“I want that to be my choice as a parent,” Duffy, a father of seven, said said during an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Rundown With José Díaz-Balart.” “I know my kids best. I know what morals and values are right for my children. I think we should not have an oppressive state telling us what to do.”

Duffy’s remarks came as an outbreak of measles — a potentially fatal disease thought to be eradicated from the U.S. just 15 years ago thanks to safe and effective vaccination — had sickened more than 100 Americans. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) came under heavy criticism Monday for appearing to align themselves with the anti-vaccine movement.

The Wisconsin congressman explicitly defended vaccine critics, saying: “I think a lot of parents who are smart, well-read — they’re the ones who are choosing not to vaccinate. And oftentimes, those who may not be as well-read — they are vaccinating. So to say you just have a bunch of crackpots who are choosing not to do this to their children, I just don’t think that’s actually true.”

Duffy, a former attorney, said that he prefers to “pick and choose” which vaccines his children receive.

“I vaccinate my kids on most things, but then there are some things where I’m like, ‘This may not work for me and my values and my family,'” he said.

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  1. Values? His family (code word for him) doesn’t believe in health?

  2. I’ve got a news flash for you, Sean. The measles virus doesn’t give a rat’s ass about your “values.”

    But I agree. The government shouldn’t tell you what to do. Drive 100mph down residential streets. Murder a stranger to steal his wallet. Pour your leftover lawn chemicals and used motor oil into the nearest reservoir. As long as these things are in accord with your “values,” whose business is it but yours?

    Moron.

  3. “So to say you just have a bunch of crackpots who are choosing not to do this to their children, I just don’t think that’s actually true.”

    Nope, sorry, but not vaccinating is by definition “crackpot.” There’s no way to use information, data and science to argue otherwise. I don’t care how fucking “smart” or “well read” the idiot crackpot is, he still came to the wrongest conclusion possible. Hitler was a fucking genius…but he was as mad as a snail wearing pants.

    It should also be noted that his statement is one of the GOP/Teatrolls’ opposite-day tells: He’s saying it’s educated people who refuse vaccination and believe the conspiracy theories because he actually knows and he fervently hopes and believes that the uneducated, fearful, mistrustful of government and, of course, poor…and you know what demographic clusters that defines in the Teatroll mind…will be the ones to not vaccinate, thus slowing demographic shifts. He probably jacked off to the idea of an inner city measles pandemic before he went to the interview.

  4. What vaccine doesn’t “work for your families values”? What a f*cking moron. This will probably be how he is remembered.

    THe oppressive gov’t that makes you register for the draft or make you obey stop signs?

    Douchenozzle.

  5. Should it also be the parent’s choice to feed their child?

    Vaccines are “optional” I suppose in the same way as wiping your ass. You can decline, but don’t be surprised when people don’t want you anywhere near them.

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