"Anti-vaxxers" used to occupy a "crunchy," hardcore lefty space filled with moms who wouldn’t let their kids eat birthday cake at parties because of the toxins. Today, this has changed. The anti-vaxx space has been firmly taken over by a political movement that believes in "health freedom" and that immunization mandates are un-American.

I can tell you this as someone who railed against COVID-19 vaccine mandates, mask mandates and the general craziness that overtook the left during the COVID pandemic: If you fail to get your child the usual childhood vaccines — measles, mumps and rubella, polio, whooping cough, etc. — you have fallen prey to an insidious lie. Failure to vaccinate against these diseases is dangerous to your child and to all other children they come into contact with. Frankly, that is as un-American as anything.

In America, we usually rally together to protect our own. But this anti-vaxxer movement is putting all of our children at risk. Children are already dying, and those numbers are only going to get exponentially worse. When it’s your child that either dies or causes another child to die, your eyes tend to open quickly to the scam of "anti-vaxxer movement" — a movement started by charlatan scammers that unfortunately (and understandably) has ensnared many devout and loving parents.

Thirteen states are already allowing immunization exemptions to school-age children for either religious or personal reasons, and that number is growing. Governors are issuing executive........

© The Hill