The twelve most terrifying words in the English language: “I’m from the Chester County Health Department and I’m here to help.”
A busybody nurse Karen called Dale Weiser, deputized by the Chester County Health Department in Pennsylvania’s Amish country, is on a jihad to get measles injections into all of the holdouts’ arms.
The campaign includes door-to-door home visits with syringes at the ready to cajole them into submitting to the needle right there on the spot, high-pressure-sales style.
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While that may sound authoritarian, don’t worry: Nurse Dale “tries her best to be respectful and non-intrusive” while she performs this sacred duty.
Via the BBC (emphasis added):
Walking into strangers' homes, Weiser says she tries her best to be respectful and non-intrusive as she vaccinates dozens of family members against the measles, sometimes around the kitchen table.
"A lot of people that I encounter, they don't have health insurance. They don't have a lot of interaction with the health system, and they just haven't seen the need to get these vaccines," said Weiser, who works for the Chester County Health Department.
"When you start talking and you answer their questions, and build that trust, a lot of times they will make a different decision."
The at-home vaccinations are part of the county and state health departments' strategy to encourage immunisations in the county, which includes an Amish community who abstain from many aspects of modern life, including regular contact with the western medical system.
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Here is what Nurse Ratched — er, Nurse Dale — looks like, so you can obviously see from this visual aid that she comes from a place of legitimate authority as she dispenses health advice to the Amish bigots who don’t Respect the Science™ — yet; they’ll get their mind right after enough hectoring by the shock troops.
“Boots on the ground”!
Continuing:
The boots-on-the-ground approach has helped the health department dispel misinformation and build trust with the community, local health officials said.
In recent years, childhood vaccination rates have fallen across the country as false theories about the safety of the measles vaccine have proliferated on social media.
Those theories have found roots even in an insulated community with limited access to computers, Weiser said. She has heard people ask if there are heavy metals in the vaccine that could make them magnetic, or if the shot has a computer chip in it.
"You're clearly getting information from that hard-core group that is promoting that misinformation and disinformation," she said.
The infantilization of the Amish is remarkable, if not surprising.
We’re not talking about some uncontacted tribe of feral pygmies in the Amazon here, though Nurse Dale would be more than happy to inject them, too, if she could get her hands on them; presumably, the Amish understand that, if they were so inclined, they could visit the nearby medical establishment and get vaccinated.
Yet they don’t, to which the rational conclusion would be that they don’t want to.
Bodily autonomy, however, despite whatever homage to the concept people like Nurse Dale might pay in the context of abortion, is merely a speed bump on their way to biomedical totalitarianism.
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