Vaccine Bullies

Michelle Malkin comments on an unholy alliance of we-know-best public school officials and doctors, motivated, as most bullies of officialdom are, by a mixture of financial self-interest, elitist ideological arrogance, and plain old love of wielding power over others:

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Why on earth should we vaccinate our newborn baby against Hepatitis B – a virus that is contracted mostly through intravenous drug use and sexual contact? That is the question my husband and I had for the doctors and nurses at the hospital where our son was born two and a half months ago. We didn’t get very good answers.

It was 'convenient,' 'recommended' and 'routine,' the medical staff assured us. We wanted more information. A nurse gave us a brochure, which explained that babies whose mothers had the Hep B virus were at high risk of developing acute Hep B infections. Well, I tested negative for Hep B. The Centers for Disease Control named unprotected sex, IV drug use and being stuck with a needle on the job as the likeliest routes of Hep B transmission. Well, my husband and I both work primarily from home, our two children stay at home, and neither we nor our 3-year-old daughter nor our baby live the Kid Rock-and-Pamela Anderson Lee lifestyle.

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