Lately I feel like I'm living in an alternate universe that is the polar opposite of the British dystopian anthology Black Mirror, in which characters obsess over increasingly intrusive technologies. Instead, here in the US, leaders appallingly ignorant of basic biology are attacking one of the greatest and most brilliant technologies ever invented – the vaccine.
A vaccine is a bit of a pathogen, harmless, that evokes a protective immune response.
Leaders Who Missed Bio 101
On September 3, Florida surgeon general Dr. Joseph Ladapo addressed an exuberant crowd about eliminating public school vaccine mandates:
"All of them. All of them. Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery. Who am I as a government or anyone else, who am I as a man standing here now, to tell you what you should put in your body? Who am I to tell you what your child should put in [their] body? I don't have that right."
