001. Jonathan Brines reports at kpic.com in "Parents Rally in Medford to Oppose Oregon's Vaccine Exemption Bill" (2019-03-30):
"if passed Oregon state house bill 3063 would put an end to Oregon's
non-medical vaccination exemptions for attending public and private
schools [...] retired doctor of naturopathy, author and filmmaker Dr. Rick Kirchner spoke at the rally in Medford and said a handful of cases of measles is a fake crisis. 'It's not a crisis. There is no epidemic. The public health measures are clearly working,' Kirschner said. Kirschner said he was infected with the measles along with his siblings and the whole grade at his school when he was a child. 'We loved it. It meant we got to stay home from school and read comic books,' Kirschner said. 'The only winners of this bill are the medical distribution system for the pharmaceutical industry.' Kirschner said the requirement to keep kids out of school excludes and isolates healthy children from getting an education. 'This is immoral,' Kirschner said. 'We don't create segregated minorities because of their vaccine status. These are health[y] kids' [...] according to Jackson County Health Officer Jim Shames [...] 'from
a medical standpoint, vaccines are probably the most powerful and
effective public health intervention of all time' [...]";
it's funny how from the bastion of naturopathic pseudoscience, the Pacific Northwest, we get a reverse accusation of 'fake.' The ND doesn't seem to realize that vaccination is the primary public health measure for such a contagion. So much umbrage for an area I consider to be without a moral compass.
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