Trump and Vaccinations Don’t Mix.

I’m not exactly sure which year this memory is from, but at some point when I was in the 7th or 8th grade, which was 1956, my entire class was taken into the school gymnasium, lined up and given the Salk polio vaccine.

I also recall at the same time that once a week on my way home from school, I had to stop at the home of another kid and drop off his homework assignments for the next week and pick up the assignments that he had completed the previous week. On one occasion I was let into his home and there he was lying in an iron lung which made a lot of noise.

If anyone objected to the polio vaccine, it sure didn’t make any media waves back then. Now we have a national political party whose Presidential candidate has announced that he will not tolerate mandated vaccines in schools and we have a possible third-party candidate who has created a national image for himself (other than his last name) by repeating every anti-vaccination bullshit deal that he can find.

What the fuck is going on here? Does the GOP actually believe that they can score points in November by coming out against a basic public health strategy which has been SOP in this country for more than seventy years?

And by the way, the POS who may wind up as the guy who needs an extra-large cell at Butner to have room for the Resolute desk, isn’t…