Vote for the Benefit of the HIVE

Well, hope y’all registered to vote, wherever you live and have made plans to take the time to vote. Remember this:

Voting is like immunizations. WE create a HIVE democracy that protects those who may not be able to vote (young people, our future voters). If you do NOT vote, that is, if you do NOT contribute to the democratic pool of those who practice a just society in the best democracy we can individually effect, then everyone becomes susceptible to disease and the contamination of the freedoms and protections that democracy provides.

We have already seen the effects of contamination and a diseased democracy. We reverse that disease by participating in a way that protects the HIVE.

Those of you who think a protest vote helps, you know, one that supports an outlier philosophy and its party, you are diminishing the strength of the HIVE and helping disease flourish! You want your minority party to be stronger and that is a noble desire. Don’t indulge your individual desires at the expense of everyone else: Independent choices have ZERO power in our two-party democracy. Instead, build your party from the ground up, strengthen from the local levels and Be Successful before you support an independent candidate at the state or national level. Participate for the benefit of the HIVE.

Lastly, anyone who is insulted by the HIVE or says “I should have individuality, express my desires, and blah, blah, blah…” yeah, that’s all BS. Even if the only choice is a vote between two evils, don’t run away from the choice and then claim you needed to express yourself.

Vaccination Wars: A Partial Win in California

It is pleasing to see that Governor Jerry Brown has succeeded in getting a bill passed to mandate vaccinations.

From the NY Times Website:

Mr. Brown, a Democrat, signed the bill after it was passed by significant margins in the State Legislature. The new law was the subject of a long and heated debate in reaction to a strong movement among some parents who refuse to vaccinate their children against infectious diseases like measles.

“The science is clear that vaccines dramatically protect children against a number of infectious and dangerous diseases,” Mr. Brown said in a statement. “While it is true that no medical intervention is without risk, the evidence shows that immunization powerfully benefits and protects the community.”

 The partial part of this victory comes in this part of the news story:

Under the new law, families with a nonmedical reason for declining vaccines will have to home-school their children. Unvaccinated children who are currently in school will be allowed to remain, although they will be expected to show proof of vaccination when they enter kindergarten and seventh grade.

Really!!?? California has over well over six million home schooled children!! (6,757,361, per a2zhomeschooling.com). Any small number of these kids could cause another outbreak. Home-schooled kids go out into public areas, such as Disneyland.

I acknowledge the dent made in the public school population; however, over 6 Million missed opportunities for vaccination is a chasm of vulnerability.

Captain Obvious did not do his work well today.