Thanks

My post points out the hypocrisy from those who fight to have UHC for the people that need it, but reject that same care for those that have it. After Wakefield blew up the question of vaccination caused autism with his faked and illegitimate “research” – causes like Generation Rescue started by illogical arguments and well funded socialites targeted parents in the mid to upper class with their message – Vaccination causes Autism.

At no point can I find that anti-vaccination mass messages been targeted at the lower class/poverty class – where the vaccination statistics show that free or low cost vaccines are given in record numbers. Vaccination clinics have always been given to those with no/little coverage and it continues to this day – the most recent examples are the pushes for Pertussis and H1N1 vaccination clinics.

Unfortunately your information about “fringe at best” is very outmoded. Everything from anecdotal to empirical data points to huge surges in anti-vaccination sentiment as far back is 1999. A quote from the Discovery article about it puts anti-vax sympathies at 23-25% back in 1999 before Autism One and Generation Rescue were even being pimped by psuedo-scientists and actors. These numbers jibe with opt-out rates posted annually from various county health sources, including rates posted for school exemptions for mandatory vaccinations at pre-6th grade levels. Pertussis rates jumped up to 53% in states with lax exemption rules for schools, important to note these are active exemptions which require parents to opt-out instead of opt-in.

My argument is specifically targeted at those who tout themselves as caring, interested liberals who want what is best for their common man. They tend to use science as their backbone instead of “feelings” like conservatives tend to use. They side with climate scientists instead of God. They tend to favor socialist ideals instead of capitalist motives (at least in words) – but the entire notion is abolished by their ignorant abstinence of a necessary and scientifically proven method of protection.

TL; DR – They are “intellectual” neo liberal’s. They look to the Huffington Post for cues like conservatives look at The View or Glenn Beck. California is full of them, and Marin is making news as an example of my argument:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/53876.php

http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jun/06-why-does-vaccine-autism-controversy-live-on/article_view?b_start:int=2&-C=

“If they want universal health care – fine, I will pay for that” I doubt very much that the folks in Marin that are choosing not to immunize are having their health care paid for by you or anyone other than themselves (or their parents via a trust fund.) I’m being presumptuous, but I’d bet good money that it’s entitled, hippie-dippy Marin stereotypes who are choosing to not get their kids immunized, not parents who rely on public assistance programs to get health care for their children.

Ultimately, your vehement rejection of universal health care is cognitively dissonant with your frustration over the refusal of some to participate in the public good of vaccinations. Huge numbers of children would go without access to vaccinations and other basic preventative care without publicly funded health programs. Likewise, adults that have access to preventative care have lower care costs over their lifetime than those who don’t, and a greater public health benefits everyone, just as with herd immunity and vaccinations.

I have been waiting on Boxee Box since long and one thing which I am not sure of is, if it supports FTP for accessing the harddisk it connects to over the network and if torrent client could be installed.
Wish someone brings all to a single box