The Importance of Vaccinating your Kids

When it comes to health care crisis’s, Texas is usually one of the worst affected due to our lack of importance we place on health care topics.  Bernice Johnson’s editorial argues the importance of vaccinating your kids. A very important issue we need to address is the protection of our children through vaccines. Travis County in Texas has one of the highest vaccines exemption rates in the country. The number of unvaccinated children has drastically increased since 2003 which is scary. Our state legislature has expanded the ability for our kids to have exemptions for non-medical reasons.

The author of this editorial is Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson who was the first nurse elected to the U.S. Congress. She represents the 30^th district of Texas. She has also worked on numerous bills supporting American’s health in Congress. This means she is very credible to talk about vaccine exemptions in Texas. The author’s intended audience is anyone who she can help convince the importance of vaccines. She is trying to convince the people of Texas the importance of vaccinating your kids to protect their health.

Bernice Johnson’s argument is that anti-vaccine paranoia is contributing to a worsening health crisis in Texas and people need to vaccinate their kids to protect them. She uses facts and research done by independent scientists to justify her point that vaccines are safe and should be gotten by anyone who doesn’t have a medical exemption. She justifies her claim with research from the centers of disease control to help show the facts around her point. She also uses the logic that people would want to protect their children as another reason to try to get people to vaccinate their kids. She also brings up the outbreaks in Texas of diseases that we thought were eliminated to help show that the lack of people getting vaccines is having serious consequences.

I agree with all of Bernice Johnson’s points about the importance of children getting vaccines. The only way to properly protect children is to require them to get vaccines. There is no reason that diseases that we believed were eliminated should be coming back in this modern age. As a society we need to help limit the spread of false information on social media that is causing people to believe it is okay to not vaccinate their kids. Texas needs to eliminate exemptions for religious and non-medical reasons. There is no reason that anyone should be able to not get a vaccine due to the false information they believe from online. These parents that are not vaccinating their kids are creating a real health hazard for people in school. You should not be able to make a decision that will affect the health of other people’s kids.

Bernice Johnson writers and effective article that argues the advantages of getting vaccines with the help of many sources and research. Her article explains why it is important for Texas to require people to get vaccines to protect their health and the health of their kids. Texas needs to work its way to the front of protecting people’s health and should not have some of the counties with the highest exemption rates in the nation.

The Fake Security Crisis on the U.S. Border

The article “Castillo: Securitycrisis? That’s not the McAllen I know” evaluates the authors opinion if there is really a crisis going on in his home town of McAllen Texas. The author uses facts and his own beliefs about the city to evaluate if McAllen and the border in general are experiencing a crisis.

              The author writes his editorial for people that want to have a greater local understanding of what is going on in a border town without watching the sensationalist national news. The way the article is written helps the audience understand what is going on locally without all the unhelpful arguments that are going on in national politics. The author’s credibility comes from growing up in McAllen and using my facts in the piece to help support his claims of the city. While the author writes this work as an opinion piece, he heavily routes his experiences within facts to give the piece credibility. He was inspired to write this after seeing Trump in McAllen arguing that they need a border fence.

              The author argues that there is not a crisis going on at the McAllen border. The author uses many pieces of evidence to support the fact that the city is not within crisis. McAllen had no murders last year which is incredible for a city of 142,000 people. This makes McAllen one of the safest cities in the U.S., a sharp contradiction to the picture that Trump paints in national politics of murderers and drug dealers running along the street all day. The author argues that the presidents wild press conference of him being flanked by drugs, weapons, and stacks of cash is just s scare tactic and does not really represent what is going on in border towns.

              I agree with the author that a border fence is and ineffective way to protect the U.S. and that there is much better way to complete the task. The author successfully argues his point with evidence and his expenses of living on the border. The author uses his personal evidence and knowledge from friends who currency live on the border to craft his arguments in very specific evidence. He gives a great, local perspective of what is going on in a city on the border. He creates a point of view that locally focuses on the issues without all the arguing happening in national politics.

Informal Citation:

Opinion Article Title: “Castillo: Security crisis? That’s not the McAllen I know”

Author: Juan Castillo

Written: January 25^th, 2019