I love this city, and I’m the first to correct snobs who want to call us “Vantucky,” as if we’re all rubes north of the river. I’m not fond of “the Couv” either, but it doesn’t cast aspersions on our alleged red-neck history. Until now, I was sure we didn’t deserve the sobriquet.
Now I know we do: Clark County has made national news for very bad reasons. We are known as the home of the newest outbreak of a disease we thought eradicated decades ago, all because people don’t inoculate their kids. When most people I know went to primary school, we weren’t allowed to enter without proof — shot records — that we had been inoculated.
You don’t want to inoculate your kid? Fine, but you can’t enter them in school, public or private; nor should you be allowed to use public swimming pools, libraries, etc.
Our legislators need to get on this one right now. Until we have 100 percent compliance and no measles cases, we are truly Vantucky.
