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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (8989)	3/17/2001 11:08:50 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

- those with undiagnosed immunological problems are discriminated against. It's not the same thing for two reasons. The first, you said yourself--the kids who suffer have UNDIAGNOSED problems. With the seatbelt issue, the people who suffer aren't undiagnosed, at least not anymore. They're people who are either short or fat. It's not OK to ignore them and it's even worse to punish them. Would you believe that they can't even get a legitimate car service facility to make modifications to the seatbelt mechanism because it's illegal to tamper with seat belts. There's a known constituency here, not people with undiagnosed problems. That's different. And it's even illegal for the known constituency to take steps to both protect itself and comply with the requirement to wear seatbelts. That's different, too. The other reason your analogy doesn't hold up is that the public health implications are not the same. Kids are little germ carriers. Immunizations of kids protect the health of both the kids getting the immunizations and those with whom they come into contact. They prevent outbreaks. With seatbelts, the health of only one person is involved. Brains splattering off the pavement do not infect bystanders. The other sub-factor here is that the immunizations are for kids so there's an element of protecting kids from their neglectful parents. The seatbelt laws I'm talking about are the ones that apply to adults. Different dynamic there. Not the same thing. Karen