Thoughts on ‘herd stupidity’
Editor:
I would really like to commend Tom Danehy for your excellent article on herd stupidity. I was born and raised in Arizona but have traveled all over the country and a bit abroad.
I have lost so many friends and numerous family due to this whole Trump environment.
I am astonished that so many people can be so naive.
I just wanted to tell you that it is very, very refreshing to be in my home state and find your article. Maybe Arizona isn't doomed to the aluminum hats and Kool-Aid after all!
With huge respect,
Rhonda Graham
Pinetop
‘Rampant hyperbole’
Editor:
Tom Danehy does it again with rampant hyperbole in his column headlined Herd Stupidity.
First, he claims that Florida Surgeon General Dr. Ladapo is a fraud, when he earned an MD and a Ph.D. from Harvard — no small feat.
Then he claims that vaccines are wonder drugs. You wouldn’t think vaccines work incredibly well if you had one of the many thousands of vaccine-injured or killed children. The idea with science is that it is always supposed to be questioned, unlike what seems to happen these days where it’s treated more like a religion.
Danehy then brings up Andrew Wakefield. In the peer-reviewed study he did, Wakefield only suggested that there could be a correlation of vaccines and autism and only recommended splitting up the three vaccines or delaying them. But he was persecuted because he didn’t have the malpractice insurance he needed to mount a defense, and because questioning vaccines is sacrilegious in our world.
Danehy believes measles is a deadly disease. Most kids prior to the ’80s or ’90s had measles and it didn’t harm or kill them. In fact, it gave them lifetime immunity and they passed it on to their children. Only children living in poverty and other unhygienic situations died of measles.
He goes on to call Florida a backward state. If Florida is so backward, why is everyone fleeing California and other states to move there?
Danehy's belief is that personal liberty is harming others. However, personal liberty includes not having to be forced to get an injection that could kill you and mostly doesn’t prevent transmission anyway.
Too bad there are so many people in our world like Tom Danehy who believe everything they’re told by the Big Pharma-controlled press and won’t do its own research.
Janet Zampieri
Tucson
