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The President Is An Anti-Vaxxer

A lot can be said about the current President of the United States, Donald Trump and his basic understanding of science and scientific consensus on dividing issues such as climate change and the supposed adverse effects of vaccinations. Most responses involve ridiculing his proposterous statements.

As I was reading articles detailing the recent measles and smallpox outbreaks in North Carolina, the tweet pictured above was one of the first related searches I came across and even for someone as scientifically ignorant as Donald Trump, it was honestly shocking.

One American state in particular, North Carolina, known for its lawmakers controversial stances such as the so-called ‘Bathroom Bill’, - which has cost the state the 2017 NBA All-Star game, billions of dollars and companies such as PayPal and CoStar Group have pulled out planned expansions from the state, losing over a thousand jobs - and now their reluctance to ensure children are vaccinated has brought back the negative media attention.

Disease such as measles and smallpox are back in the news once again as stubborn parents continue to refuse the required vaccinations for their children, as well as the Church of Scientology’s cruise ship being quarantined on the Caribbean island, St Lucia.

It’s one thing for a small group of miseducated parents and an insane cult masquerading as a religion to be wary of mandated injections, but when the most powerful man on the planet, with his large appeal to lesser educated people, to be pushing already debunked scare stories about vaccines.

One of the worst things about his stance is that he isn’t beating around the bush, he isn’t using the pretend conservative “question everything” line used to suggest that they’re interested in “the battle of the ideas”, Donald Trump just outrightly states that there are “many such cases!” of random children going to a routine doctors visit and is given a shot of “many vaccines” which in turn has led to these children to develop autism.

Also, the way Trump tweets this is indicative of the way he speaks about other topics he doesn’t understand, such as climate change and abortion. Trump states his beliefs as fact, but it only raises more questions:

  • Who was this young child?
  • Which doctor did he visit?
  • “Pumped with many vaccines” - how many specifically? Which vaccine did the child need in the first place?
  • “Doesn’t feel good and changes” - what symptoms were there? How long since the vaccination did the “change” take to manifest? 
  • “MANY SUCH CASES!” - how many exactly? How often is this happening in relation to the total amount of vaccines administered to young children?
Unfortunately, with the recent news stories surrounding these diseases, the vicious cycle of people who listen to Trump and believe him on these issues, continue to further spread this misinformation which will only lead to more cases of measles and smallpox. For example, PolitiFact recently debunked this exact topic:


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