Texas measles outbreak climbs to 48 cases, almost all kids; 13 hospitalized
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So by "I can play too," you're gloating because you think immigrants are the ones getting sick?
What evidence do you have that any of those sick are immigrants?
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I live within 100 miles of the outbreak. What the local news reports that's not included in this story is that the outbreak started within a community of Mennonites. I'll not disparage their beliefs but, in this case, their beliefs are doing harm to their neighbors. That area is highly GOP (even more so than the rest of Texas), so there's that, too.
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Okay?
Put that on your child's gravestone "at least some dirty foreigners died"
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Conclusion ?
You are lucky enough to be able to afford vaccination, use this luck.
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The ironic part was that they complained so much about vaxxers ripping the piss out of them for getting sick and dying that Reddit almost shut down subs and started banning users "gloating" about antivaxxers and COVID deniers finding out what their fucking around got them.
They're all about "Fuck your feelings" until it's their feelings that get hurt. A whole generation of fragile snowflakes.
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If I had a friend like that, I would reply back, "You're a fucking idiot. Lose my contact information."
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I don't see the relevance of you posting this. Or being on this site at all.
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Roses are red
so is your skin
You're a fucking dumbass
if you skip vaccinations for any reason besides legitimate health concerns like a demonstrated allergy or something like that.
so is your skin
You're a fucking dumbass
if you skip vaccinations for any reason besides legitimate health concerns like a demonstrated allergy or something like that.
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Texas is like 6'8" 330 pound restaurant waiter with no arms but has an uncontrollable compulsion to scream at the top of their lungs occasionally.
They're big, they're loud, and they don't bring a single thing to the table.
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The vaccination rate has gone down in the last years. That’s why lots of kindergarten children get ill (they should have been vaccinated this or last year), today’s five year olds are still relatively safe, and ten year olds are quite safe. Because vaccination rate was still high when they should have been vaccinated.
Every year the age of kids becoming victims in an outbreak will grow.
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A lot has happened in the 5 years since you last posted. Keep lurking if this is the quality of discourse you’re going to bring.
Downvote the trolls then put them on ignore.
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Sterility will only start affecting population numbers in 14 years or so. Because plenty of five or six year olds are still vaccinated.
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Unfortunately the parents generally won't pay the price, they will be of an age where anti vaxx wasn't such a virulent mind virus, they will mostly have had their shots, just like RFK JrI feel sorry for the children, but I have nothing but laughter for the parents
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To be fair, checking the Wayback Machine, "Health" has only been in the banner for a few months (it appeared sometime in October 2024).Check your prescription.
Prior to that, the copious amount of health coverage Ars did was often under the "Science" banner, like this one:
https://web.archive.org/web/2022070...s-against-ba-4-5-as-subvariants-take-over-us/
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There's a threshold but its not "3 in 1,000". I won't guess at what point they'll start caring, probably enough that everyone has a direct, close friend or relative that's experienced the loss of a non-old, non-frail immediate family member. Even then watch the mental gymnastics they'll go through to blame it on immigrants, DEI, or liberals before they just admit "oh it's a virus that we have a 100% safe and 95ish% effective vaccine for, guess it's my fault for denying that to my child".
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Didn't happen when nearly a million of their fellow Americans died of Covid; what possibly makes you think they'll ever realize they're morons?
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That’s because the families of people who died from Covid didn’t really think Covid killed them. They blamed it on everything else under the sun. They saw family members who couldn’t breathe.
Measles does not fuck around. It carries with it horribly disfiguring skin lesions that can’t be so easily dismissed. Those kinds of physical symptoms make it clear as creek water that it’s not something else - it’s measles.
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The man has a face like a dropped pie
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Happy Pink-and-Red Rash Day!
Have a little empathy and put some fucking spoiler tags on that photo.
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Yeah, you'd think that'd do it, but, like ... mass shootings don't seem to have helped gun control efforts. "Only more guns can stop shootings!"
I wouldn't be surprised if the vaccinated started to get the blame for communicable disease. "Only fewer vaccines can stop disease! Lock up the vaccinated!"
Waiting for it ...
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I'm sorry, but thoughts and prayers aren't covered due to a pre-existing condition.
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What could be done in situations like this to reduce the spread of disease? Maybe a large scale vaccination program?
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YIL it's called the backfire effect.
Not to spoil the comic, but the oatmeal did an excellent job explaining it - https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe
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I feel really bad for kids getting this, especially if the adults responsible for them are responsible (I'm not using parents, because parents actually look out for their kids).
If it could only hit people who are in their 20s and up, I'd be 100% for it. Adults can go get their own vaccinations if they choose unless the maggats have already destroyed that too. Otherwise come up to Canada or go to Mexico and get a shot there.
If it could only hit people who are in their 20s and up, I'd be 100% for it. Adults can go get their own vaccinations if they choose unless the maggats have already destroyed that too. Otherwise come up to Canada or go to Mexico and get a shot there.
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Getting chickenpox as an adult can be deadly as well. Two anecdata follow:
In college, a bunch of Malaysian students I knew got chickenpox. One was hospitalized. I had a part-time job in the student health clinic at the time. I didn’t recall having chickenpox as a kid (my mom had me exposed to a friend’s child that was sick, but I never got a rash or anything that I recall), so I didn’t work in the wing where the folks that had chickenpox were. Thankfully the folks I knew all recovered.
In grad school, there was a guy who just got his Ph.D. in math after 11+ years. He caught chickenpox and it went to his lungs. He died from viral pneumonia (IIRC he was recovering from the chickenpox infection (a month in the hospital) when he got another virus).
When we had our kids, I told my doctor about my unknown chickenpox status. They did a blood test to confirm that I did have chickenpox at some point. (Just had my shingles vaccines last year. They sucked but much less than the shingles, so I’ve heard.)
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This was my experience as well. I am in East Texas and during the Delta surge it was awful. the vaccine was available but unfortunately, so was Fox News, but by the end. I was out of compassion. I wasn't rude, I just didn't care anymore. Not vaccinated, better start them prayers! Because my hands don't work through Fox News (their god ) like you think they do. Lots of ' I'll be the miracle and show people how I can survive ' to on the ventilator, and then dead. Amazing how many dead optimists there were.
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It is unfortunate. There is a bit of a natural selection phenomenon going on, they may have successfully passed on their genes to their offspring, but if those offspring then don't survive to reproduce they've selected it back out.
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