Recently, Meghan McCain, whose only claim to fame is being the daughter of the Senate’s premier warmonger, the late John McCain, unleashed a vile attack on “anti-vaxxers”, an ignorant slur for people who’ve looked at the facts surrounding vaccines, and have understandably become hesitant to inject themselves or their children. Over at Twitter, prime real estate for such ignorant bile, McCain tweeted, “Dear anti-vaxers, your stupidity and arrogance are putting the lives of children in danger! It is nothing short of abominable.” To paraphrase the great Malcolm Reynolds, I’d say that McCain isn’t burdened with an overabundance of brains. It’s hard to learn, to retain facts, and to think critically. Much easier to just let whoever happens to be in authority fill your mind with the preferred propaganda, and let one’s own emotions do the talking, and tweeting. Which is what appears to be the case with McCain. If even a minuscule amount of research were possible for her, she’d discover that vaccine manufacturers are exempt from liability, that the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program exists and has paid out $4 billion to the families of the vaccine-injured or vaccine-killed, that the FDA regularly manipulates the media in favor of Big Pharma, that vaccine manufacturers have a sordid history of committing fraud by manipulating research for a new product. The few vaccinated versus unvaccinated studies that exist show that there may be something catastrophically wrong with U.S. vaccine policy. Peter Aaby’s 2017 comprehensive study of health outcomes of children in Guinea-Bissau found that children vaccinated with DTP had a mortality rate far higher than unvaccinated children.
Invincibly and comfortably ignorant, Meghan McCain won’t even begin to develop thoughts or ideas of her own. Thinking is hard, and can cause much discomfort, much easier to settle into an easy mental torpidity, and launch attacks at people who prefer to use their minds.
