U can be..so blessed w/ choices that U choose to be a fool, so “informed” that you’re misinformed
Best quote yet I plucked from the article...
You can be..so blessed w/ choices that you choose to be a fool, so informed that youre misinformed Measles &.. http://nyti.ms/1zkeKMZ
SundayReview | Op-Ed Columnist
The Vaccine Lunacy
Disneyland, Measles and Madness
January 31, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/opinion/sunday/frank-bruni-disneyland-measles-and-madness.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
A FEW years back, an acerbic friend of mine who was a recent transplant to Los Angeles told me that she itched to write a satirical novel with the following narrative:
A group of wealthy, educated people in Santa Monica who deliberately didnt vaccinate their children subsequently take them on a poor-ism trip to a developing country. The goal is to make them wiser and more sensitive to suffering in the world. While being sensitized, the kids catch diseases that they could have been inoculated against. Some of them die.
As a plot, it lacks subtlety (and compassion). But as a parable, its crystal-clear. You can be so privileged that youre underprivileged, so blessed with choices that you choose to be a fool, so informed that youre misinformed.
Which brings us to Disneyland, measles and the astonishing fact that a scourge once essentially eliminated in this country is back..............