Doctor Mike

And then we had, so I called my local representative, my state rep, and I was like,

Is there anything that we can do about this?

And he was like, no, you know, the anti-vaccine movement is a force and we're just not willing to do anything about it.

But then the Disneyland measles outbreak happened and I called again and they said, actually, yeah, we're going to do something about it.

There's a there's a state senator in Sacramento, Dr. Richard Pan.

He's he's a pediatrician also, actually.

And and he he's introducing a bill.

And why don't you get in touch with his office?

So I called and I said, look, you know, I'm just like a mom.

I did this data science work.

I can actually make you some charts and stuff for your senators if that's useful.

I can like show you these graphs that can help people see like in your district.

Here are your schools.

Here are your trends.

Is that useful?

Can I help in some way?

And I'd never done anything like this before.

And his staffers put me in touch with a couple of other moms who it turned out had also called kind of upset about the measles situation in Disneyland, including one mom whose kid had gotten measles at Disneyland.

And we decided that we would start this group called Vaccinate California.

And so we we decided that we would just try to be a pro vaccine parent group.