http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=11228
Several months ago there was a measles outbreak among the Amish where 383 people were infected, and (as usual) nobody came even close to death. The media hardly expressed concern except to criticize the Amish for not being vaccinated. Now comes the Disneyland infection and suddenly it’s a national security threat. The issue of mandating vaccines is being broadcast widely, almost as if we are dealing with a conspiracy of creating a crisis in order to justify squashing the anti-vaccine movement.
Government’s purpose is to keep people’s rights from being violated, not to ensure safety, which is almost impossible to define and enforce. Besides, once you give a bureaucrat the responsibility to ensure everyone’s safety, each person’s individual liberty becomes a threat to his job, and puts him in the position of looking like he has failed if anyone has a problem or an accident.
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