Remember when a year ago in January, Scott Turner Schofield from General Hospital announced on Facebook, “Spoiler alert: I am turning down millions in salary for four years of hiatus. Yes, furloughs of choice. Four years out of 25. Awesome!”? Well the good times keep on rolling for him.
Now he is calling for General Hospital to “fire these three would-be puppets who want to make vaccines mandatory”. On Facebook last night (Friday, 24 December 2017) he announced he will be leaving this Friday “in protest”. For years he has been the only one of the original cast of General Hospital who does not want General Hospital to come out in favour of the vaccination mandate which would require all 4 million children to have the MMR vaccine, a vaccine to prevent measles, mumps and rubella (MMR).
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Schofield’s message to General Hospital is that they have just become “unfit for purpose. You had more swans than you had brains. Maybe in the future you will find a way to be sane again. I will watch them from home”.
While Schofield is in the minority amongst GM fans the outcome of his wish on General Hospital will not be determined until January, the usual 6-9 weeks wait for the GM crew to give its decision.
In January 2017 there was a PR disaster for Walford and EastEnders after lots of angry people demanded that Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical, Cats, be cancelled due to the objections of Susan Boyle.
I asked actress Rita Simons if she felt a conflict of interest in replacing Kim Medforth at New Year as EastEnders Charity Dingle. It was because she had recently made a donation to a campaign which is calling for stricter laws for vaccinations, a move which has many Albert Square residents up in arms.
The current anti-vaccination debate is conducted via social media.
The well-funded National Vaccine Information Centre were instrumental in persuading the National Farmers Union to back the removal of language related to the MMR vaccine from a draft council document at the meeting. (BBC report)
Will the current anti-vaccination debate be ignited in the UK and what is it about these characters that so enrages people, if we have to wait six to nine weeks before seeing what happens?
Will the current anti-vaccination debate be ignited in the UK and what is it about these characters that so enrages people, if we have to wait six to nine weeks before seeing what happens?
• Lee Ellis is a journalist and writer who is a regular columnist on the national media, including The Guardian and The Jewish Chronicle