We’re being swamped by vaccines says Pauline Hanson

And Brisbane’s Lord Mayor is rolling in the deep doo-doo with Adele.

And Brisbane’s Lord Mayor is rolling in the deep doo-doo with Adele.

A more sophisticated, mainstream Pauline Hanson wonders whether kids should get vaccinated. ABC TV’s Insiders, yesterday:

Barrie Cassidy: How could they (anti-vaccination advocates) be better equipped than the medical people to make that kind of judgment? Vaccinations save lives, clearly save lives; if you are promoting an anti-vaccination campaign, they lost lives.

Pauline Hanson: Like all the drugs we have had over the years that have destroyed people’s lives as well.

Yes, kids should definitely get their shots. Federal Health Department website. April 20, 2015:

Before the major vaccination campaigns of the 1960s and 70s, diseases like tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough (pertussis) killed thousands of young children each year. Today, deaths from these diseases are extremely rare in Australia, and the rest of the developed world ... Smallpox was officially declared eradicated in 1980 after a concerted campaign of surveillance and vaccination led by the World Health Organisation. A similar campaign by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative has succeeded in reducing polio cases, with only a few isolated cases remaining in the developing world. In March 2014, the World Health Organisation declared that measles has been eliminated in Australia.

And autism? Insiders, continued:

Barrie Cassidy: ... you certainly said there could be a link with autism ...

Pauline Hanson: Yes. That’s exactly right.

Vaccines do not cause autism. US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention website:

Some people have had concerns that ASD (autism spectrum disorder) might be linked to the vaccines children receive, but studies have shown that there is no link between receiving vaccines and developing ASD. In 2011, an Institute of Medicine report on eight vaccines given to children and adults found that with rare exceptions, these vaccines are very safe. A 2013 CDC study added to the research showing that vaccines do not cause ASD.

Health professionals telling parents to vaccinate their kids? I don’t like it. Insiders, yesterday:

What I don’t like about it is the blackmailing that’s happening with the government. Don’t do that to people. That’s a dictatorship.

Pauline Hanson on actual dictator Vladimir Putin. Insiders, continued:

He is very patriotic towards his country, the people love him, he is doing so well for the country.

If you are seeing her now, it means she has been vaccinated. Hanson on Insiders, continued:

If having vaccinations and measle vaccinations is going to stop these diseases, fine, no problems. But ...

Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk hates on Adele playing at the Gabba. The Courier Mail, February 22, 2017:

I want to make it clear that the Sunday night concert presents a very big challenge ...

Never mind she’ll find someone like you, Lord Mayor. Adele speaking at the Gabba, Saturday:

I know there was a bit of controversy about me playing the Gabba ... I think they should shut up with their bloody moaning, f..king hell. Shut up!

And some fake news from CNN on our border protection policy, yesterday:

Australia builds fence on Slovenian border.