Carrie McKean's NYT editorial is fucking idiotic

Today's editorial, I Vaccinated My Children. But Here’s Why My Neighbors Don’t, in the NYT by Carrie McKean is a true work of nonsense. Arguing that while she would continue to get her kids vaccinated, she understands and excuses the bullshit explanations of her neighbors who refuse to vaccinate their children and themselves. 

First and overwhelmingly she lays the responsibilty of this at the doorstep of public health then proceeds to use her community's defiance of Covid guidelines as further reason to excuse her negligent neighbors and herself.

Public Health and its consistent messaging in support of mass vaccinations of all persons against an array of preventable disease has been over half a century in the making. The forward motion of Public Health has been to embrace fighting preventable disease and the spread of it with the goal of eradicating illness in society at large. Only after the internet allowed a platform for fringe groups, was public health put in the crosshairs by individuals with no claim to valid scientific theory. Further adding to this was the embrace by celebrities and influencers who promoted false information and quack cures. 

But it wasn't enough for Carrie McKean to dismiss the good of Public Health services and acknowledge the blatant campaign of misinformation of lies which demonized good science and delivery of public health, she offered a nonsensical defense rooted in her community's failure to heed science and best measures during the Covid pandemic. 

While other countries approached the pandemic with strict containment and supplemental far reaching financial support, the idiocy of America and its commitment to individual freedom trumped appropriate responses to halting the spread of Covid. A contributing writer for Christianity Today, Carrie McKean leaned into her religious rights to break the Covid quarantine and return to sanctuaries as well as voicing her opinion, emphasis on opinion (lacking in facts), that children should return to school in 2020. 

Somehow her liberties were being denied by not allowing her to meet in large groups at Sunday sermons. She also argued that because children suffered fewer bad outcomes from Covid, her little ones should be allowed to spread disease amongst themselves in the classrooms. The fact that they would then take the disease home to parents and grandparents was of less concern than a delay in educational development. Oh, the stupidity in not realizing a failure to learn critical thinking on her part lead her to not follow the problem to its logical conclusion. Maybe what America really needs is to stop coddling the purveyors of nonsense and magical thinking and teach critical thinking and science in a better funded educational system that doesn't let idiots opt out their children from classes which offend their stone age thinking.

But I guess as a Christian she thought she could just pray it away somehow. Or perhaps she thought that science that doesn't match her ideology regarding abortion or transgender people means she can throw out the entire public health system altogether and somehow undermines its validity by recognizing transgender people exist and abortion should be a healthcare option. Who knows exactly because she was so busy playing the apologist for stupid people that she seems to have missed the meaning of the verse, "Suffer the little children to come unto me." It wasn't a call to send your kids to heaven by suffering through disease. It was a call to offer some comfort to children to come to those who would genuinely care for them and their well being. What a fucking idiotic bunch of nonsense, Carrie McKean.