Come on, Ryan, you know who should decide the vaccination question. If you need root-canal work done, to whom will you turn to perform the task? A lawyer? A waiter at your favorite restaurant? Your tax accountant? You’re likely to decide to have the work performed by someone with expertise in the task: your dentist perhaps? Haven’t we been conditioned to revere experts? Who are the experts in the realm of vaccinations? Haven’t the big pharmaceutical companies – along with academicians who have enjoyed hefty research grants from Big-Pharma – done this work? That these firms have produced the vaccines to be used upon the public just shows how prepared they have been to put this research to practical use!
This question has arisen in states that have created government “dairy products advisory commissions” to determine the minimum prices at which dairies can sell their products – all for maintaining a “healthy” dairy industry so the children will not go without their daily supply of milk. But to whom do such dairy boards turn to make such decisions? Would church ministers, chiropractors, librarians, or cab-drivers be capable of doing this work? What would such people know about the dairy interest? Where might we find people with “expertise” in producing and selling dairy products? Right! The dairy industry, whose members will prove willing to devote endless hours in “public service” work on behalf of this important cause.
We can dismiss as “cynical” those who contend that Big-Pharma – like the dairy industry – will be motivated principally by their interests in increasing the sales and prices of their merchandise; that the pursuit of their self-interests – when reinforced by the coercive powers of the state – will be inconsistent with a free society. But the interests of ordinary people will be protected by members of Congress who will not allow “big business” to misuse its enjoyment of state powers to the detriment of the public.
11:45 am on February 7, 2015
