{"id":14387,"date":"2015-02-02T10:39:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T15:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=14387"},"modified":"2015-02-02T10:39:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T15:39:07","slug":"governor-christies-dangerous-double-talk-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=14387","title":{"rendered":"Governor Christie's Dangerous Double-Talk on Vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republican political strategy<\/a> during the past six years has been simple and consistent: If Obama was for it, we had to be against it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Buy Xanax Without Rx No cooperation meant no bipartisan photo ops.<\/p>\n

https://dinoeliadis.com/city-of-largo/ The one guy who bucked that was New Jersey Governor Chris Christie during Hurricane Sandy in 2012, when the Governor praised\u00a0President Obama for his “outstanding” and “wonderful” response in the storm’s aftermath. As the Washington Post<\/em> reported<\/a> at the time:<\/p>\n

He [Christie] even told Fox News the president had done a \u201cgreat job for New Jersey\u201d while staying above the fray about politics: \u201cI\u2019ve got a job to do here in New Jersey that\u2019s much bigger than presidential politics, and I could care less about any of that stuff. I have a job to do. I\u2019ve got 2.4 million people out of power. I\u2019ve got devastation on the Shore. I\u2019ve got floods in the northern part of my state. If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don\u2019t know me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fast forward to the present, as Christie mulls a potential run in next year’s presidential election. Over the weekend, President Obama weighed in<\/a> on the recent measles outbreak making news<\/a>, which the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) warns may grow wider. On Sunday, Obama said in an interview:<\/p>\n

https://prosthodontistlasvegas.com/cavity-on-wisdom-tooth/ You should get your kids vaccinated. It’s good for them, but we should be able to get back to the point where measles effectively is not existing in this country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Valium 10Mg Buy Online He also said this:<\/p>\n

I understand that there are families that, in some cases, are concerned about the effect of vaccinations. The science is, you know, pretty indisputable. We\u2019ve looked at this again and again. There is every reason to get vaccinated, but there aren\u2019t reasons to not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What Obama is referring to here is the resistance of some parents to vaccines–the kind of resistance driven by misguided health concerns that you see expressed in this recent New York Times<\/em> article<\/a>. When Obama says there aren’t reasons to not vaccinate, he’s referring to those\u00a0fears about side effects that have been amplified by anti-vaccine activists.<\/p>\n

Buy Tramadol 100 Mg Online Enter Governor Christie, who is quoted today as saying<\/a>:<\/p>\n

https://www.secpeinvestments.com/cameroon-investment/ there has to be a balance and it depends on what the vaccine is, what the disease type is, and all the rest. Not every vaccine is created equal and not every disease type is as great a public health threat as others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Way to muddy the waters, Governor. If the measles outbreak spreads to New Jersey, will you continue with this kind of irresponsible double-talk? When it comes to important public health issues that are already roiled by urban myths and misinformation, it’s best not to talk out of both sides of your mouth.<\/p>\n

Buy Valium Online Without Prescription UPDATE:<\/strong> Christie is getting hammered all over the internet. His office just tweeted a clarification:<\/p>\n

To be clear: pic.twitter.com\/pA4iCgL7xi<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Governor Christie (@GovChristie) February 2, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that should clear things up.<\/p>\n

Clonazepam Purchase Online UPDATE:<\/strong> In fairness to Christie, political pandering to parental vaccine fears is a bipartisan activity–as Brendan Nyhan\u00a0reminds us<\/a>. [And as I found out later,<\/a> the Obama angle of that storyline is incorrect]<\/p>\n

https://rgprincipal.com/peru/ UPDATE:<\/strong> Nyhan has published a really important NYT piece<\/a> today: “Spreading along with measles: Polarization on a hot-button issue.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Republican political strategy during the past six years has been simple and consistent: If Obama was for it, we had to be against it. No cooperation meant no bipartisan photo ops. The one guy who bucked that was New Jersey Governor Chris Christie during Hurricane Sandy in 2012, when the Governor praised\u00a0President Obama for… Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2961,2962,3041],"tags":[1129,1305,1581,1734],"class_list":["post-14387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-science-communication","category-vaccinations","tag-governor-christie","tag-measles","tag-science","tag-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}