Rights for teens of Fox News parents

Philadelphia’s policy is a good one and should be in place in more jurisdictions:

High school junior Nicolas Montero stays busy. He runs track, works night and weekend shifts at Burger King and keeps on top of his schoolwork at Neshaminy High School in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

But Montero’s packed schedule is also strategic — he says it’s a way to stay out of the house.

Montero and his parents are separated by a political and cultural rift common throughout the U.S.: He says his parents are part of a small but vocal minority who oppose COVID-19 vaccination and have refused to let him get the shots.

“The thing about these beliefs is that they alternate by the day,” said Montero, who is 16. “It’s not one solid thing that they’re going with, so it’s just really baseless. It’s like one thing they see on Facebook, and then they completely believe it.”

The kid is definitely more mature than the parents here, and it’s deadly accurate that virtually no Republican anti-vaxxism is driven by any “principle” that predated the inauguration of Joe Biden — it’s all just bullshit being spread by opportunistic profit-takers, most of whom are perfectly well aware that it’s bullshit and don’t care how many of their fans die or spend 150 days in the hospital.

Meanwhile, since so much attention is being given to the 20% of Canadians represented by the nihilistic Tonka Twuckers, let’s hear from the no-longer-silent majority:

This has got to be the next Canadian Heritage Minute. 🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/KAJFQyg9JC— Paul Bae (@MrPaulBae) February 16, 2022