Until recently, Americans uniformly accepted the science behind vaccinating their dogs and cats against diseases like rabies that could potentially kill not only the pets themselves, but any of the people they bit or scratched.
That was before the Trump administration came along with its Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is known for his aggressively anti-science perspective on all this.
Here is the story in The New York Times, Vaccine Skepticism Comes for Pet Owners, Too, of a woman (pictured above), just four years out of vet school, who has a practice that is seriously threated by this kind of ignorance. From the article: “I actually had someone scream and yell at us and storm out because we required rabies vaccines for her cats,” Dr. McGuire said, adding that the owner had accused her of trying to “kill her cats with vaccines.”
At left are the words of Neil deGrasse Tyson, noted astrophysicist and atheist.
His point here seems to be that a loving god would protect us from the threats we face from all corners of the universe.
This is a very common theme in theology: How is it possible that a loving god doesn’t help good people, while allowing evil to prosper?
But it gets worse. Is it a human concept to sentence the unfaithful to suffer eternal torture? Should unfaithful wives be stoned to death?
The list goes on and on.
The message at left is that we live among people who believe that every U.S. citizen should be armed at all times. Every teacher, real estate agent, pastry chef, little old lady, and perhaps even our kids themselves, so often murdered by lunatics with assault rifles.
I can hear the Lt. Colonel saying, “The only thing that will stop a psychotic killer with an AR-15 in a schoolroom is a six-year-old with a gun.”
Seriously, there is an important fact here: each year, the United States has 78% of the world’s mass shootings; the other 22% are the aggregate of the other 200+ nations of the world.
Are more guns the answer?
Quite possibly the single most offensive part of the Trump presidency is that the White House has gone to a great deal of effort to find the very most incompetent people to fill the government’s important positions.
We have an anti-science crackpot in change of our healthcare, a climate denier heading up the EPA, and an alcoholic Fox News commentator running the most powerful military in human history.
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