If you enjoy seeing something really, really stupid, take a look at this table and the graph that follows:

Polio Vaccine Mandates for Child Care and Elementary Schools State Childcare requirement Elementary school requirement Polio vaccine required? Number of Polio vaccine doses required1  Date implemented Polio vaccine required? Number of Polio vaccine doses required1  Date implemented Alabama Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Alaska Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3 Longstanding Arizona Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Arkansas Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3  Longstanding California Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Colorado Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Connecticut Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3 Longstanding Delaware Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Dist of Columbia Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 4 Longstanding Florida Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Georgia Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Hawaii Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Idaho Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Illinois Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 4-5 Longstanding Indiana Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Iowa Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Kansas Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Kentucky Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Louisiana Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Maine Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 4 Longstanding Maryland Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3 Longstanding Massachusetts Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-5 Longstanding Michigan Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Minnesota Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Mississippi Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Missouri Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3 or more Longstanding Montana Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Nebraska Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3 Longstanding Nevada Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding New Hampshire Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding New Jersey Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding New Mexico Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding New York Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding North Carolina Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding North Dakota Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Ohio Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Oklahoma Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Oregon Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 4 Longstanding Pennsylvania Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Rhode Island Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 4 Longstanding South Carolina Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3 Longstanding South Dakota Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Tennessee Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Texas Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Utah Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Vermont Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 4 Longstanding Virginia Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Washington Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding West Virginia Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3 Longstanding Wisconsin Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Wyoming Yes Age-appropriate Longstanding Yes 3-4 Longstanding Reproduced from National Academy for State Health Policy. Map: Danielle Alberti/Axios

Yes, you’re reading that right. Every single state in America mandates — that’s MANDATES –3 TO 4 polio vaccinations.

Now look at this graph of COVID vaccine mandates and mandate bans.

Reproduced from National Academy for State Health Policy. Map: Danielle Alberti/Axios

Do you live in a stupid state or a smart state? (Sadly, I happen to live in a really, really stupid state.)

Yes, only 4 states are smart enough to mandate COVID vaccinations while 17 really, really stupid states, being led by really, really stupid governors and legislatures, not only don’t mandate COVID vaccinations, they actually BAN mandates!

Why?

And in many of those states, schools mandate vaccinations for measles, polio, and chickenpox. Why the difference?

No need to ask why. You know perfectly well, why.

Do these people care about themselves? Probably? Do they care about their children? Surely. Do they care about their friends, neighbors, and other loved ones? Certainly.

Do they care more for Trump and his cronies, toadies, and suckups? Maybe.

Or is it just pure stupidity?

Is it pure stupidity that for zero cost and minimal effort, someone could protect himself and his family from sickness and death, but refuses to do so?

And not just refuses, but angrily refuses. Marching and carrying signs, refuses. Is that pure stupidity?

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THE SOLE PURPOSE OF GOVERNMENT IS TO IMPROVE AND PROTECT THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE.

The most important problems in economics involve:

1. Monetary Sovereignty describes money creation and destruction.
2. Gap Psychology describes the common desire to distance oneself from those “below” in any socio-economic ranking, and to come nearer those “above.” The socio-economic distance is referred to as “The Gap.”

Wide Gaps negatively affect poverty, health and longevity, education, housing, law and crime, war, leadership, ownership, bigotry, supply and demand, taxation, GDP, international relations, scientific advancement, the environment, human motivation and well-being, and virtually every other issue in economics. Implementation of Monetary Sovereignty and The Ten Steps To Prosperity can grow the economy and narrow the Gaps: Ten Steps To Prosperity:

1. Eliminate FICA
2. Federally funded Medicare — parts A, B & D, plus long-term care — for everyone
3. Social Security for all
4. Free education (including post-grad) for everyone
5. Salary for attending school
6. Eliminate federal taxes on business
7. Increase the standard income tax deduction, annually. 
8. Tax the very rich (the “.1%”) more, with higher progressive tax rates on all forms of income.
9. Federal ownership of all banks
10. Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99.9% 

The Ten Steps will grow the economy and narrow the income/wealth/power Gap between the rich and the rest.

MONETARY SOVEREIGNTY