Yes, apparently so:Is “everyone dies” MAGA’s new buzz phrase of the week?
— Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) June 1, 2025
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"Mercy Culture Preparatory, which is a private school in my district, also happens to be where I send my kids to school, he said they are the least vaccinated school in the state of Texas," [Tex. State Rep. Nate Schatzline (R-☠️)] observed. "Now, I was incredibly concerned for a couple different reasons. I was concerned that, number one, we're just finding out about this. Because the second concern is, why haven't we celebrated this sooner?"Bud Kennedy is the reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram who first noted Mercy(less) Prep was not requiring vaccinations.
"Look, I am so excited to say that Mercy Culture Prep is celebrating medical freedom where we honor the wishes of moms and dads over any type of health official like Rachel Levine or so-called public health expert like Bud Kennedy."
In rational times, we’d shut down that school and quarantine everyone involved. Of course, I’m old enough to remember victims of polio (adults, in my younger days), and the first oral polio vaccine. My parents had lived through the childhood diseases, seen friends die from them. They made sure I got every vaccine available. RFK, Jr. is a shill peddling quack remedies* because the family money isn’t enough. Best I can tell, Schatzline is just an idiot.
Who thinks the measles epidemic in West Texas is far enough away from Fort Worth as to be in another country. Or he really is just that stupid.
As Molly Ivins often said, it’s a representative government.
My father is one of the more recent burials in a pioneer cemetery not too far from the farm where he grew up and I work now. He shares the space with veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic* and many infants and young children whose parents would have probably paid any price, including a wee small bit of personal "freedom", for the same things evil morons like Schatzline and Kennedy and our idiot state republicans claim to be afraid of now.
ReplyDeleteLessons not learned firsthand turn into history, and we all know how good your average American has been at *that* subject...
* above was meant to lead to "the question of what side Iowa would have fought on in the Civil War if it were fought today is an entire book of its own"
ReplyDeleteThere is an old cemetery in Nacogdoches (oldest town in Texas) with a family plot from the 19th century. The father outlived two wives and all his many children from them, most of whom died in childhood or adolescence.
ReplyDeleteThe last church I served had a cemetery dating to the mid-19th century. It has a mass grave filled with victims of yellow fever because they couldn’t bury them fast enough, and that was the only way to slow the epidemic that they had. Lots of graves of infants and small children there, too.
How soon we forget.