Unvaccinated school-aged child dies of measles in Texas amid growing outbreak
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The party of "Think of the children!" adds another to its mountainous body count. With 'allies' like Republicans, who needs enemies?
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Unfortunately vaccine "skepticism" is an ideology that reaches across the aisle, even if it's become a major plank on one side now.
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In a sane world, every parent who - without medical cause, and there are valid such - withhold vaccination from their children should either face the state taking their children into care just as if they beat their kids black and blue.
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See our glorious future under a party that disdains public health measures and biomedical research.
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I got my TDAP updated just a few days ago.
Doctor starts out by trying to sell me on vaccines, I was all "naw man you good, don't need to sell it ... give me ALL the shots."
Can't believe doctor's have to deal with that shit.
Doctor starts out by trying to sell me on vaccines, I was all "naw man you good, don't need to sell it ... give me ALL the shots."
Can't believe doctor's have to deal with that shit.
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That poor kid died because they are surrounded by idiotic, ignorant adults.
Conservatism, folks.
Conservatism, folks.
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82% is a lot higher than I'd have expected. In Quebec when we get outbreaks it's because a religious community has fallen to under 50% vaccination rate.
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Next step in the Republican playbook - stop overwhelming people with these types of unnecessary statistics.
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Adults paying the price for their own stupidity doesn't bother me, they played dice against nature and lost (remember, in any form of gambling, the odds are always in favour of the house).
But children being sacrificed in the altar of ignorance is where I draw the line. No religion should be allowed exemptions where it concerna children health care.
In any civilized society, those parents would have been charged with abuse and murder.
But children being sacrificed in the altar of ignorance is where I draw the line. No religion should be allowed exemptions where it concerna children health care.
In any civilized society, those parents would have been charged with abuse and murder.
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It's a niche group of wackos on one side and a core tenet of the other.
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Measles is one of the most contagious airborne viruses known to man. For every case that is detected, it's likely tens to hundreds of others have been exposed. I would be VERY surprised if this outbreak is anywhere close to over. This is likely just the first unfortunately. Lets see if the unnecessary and horrific deaths of children spurs anything other than crocodile tears and performative sighs from those in power.
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Rest in peace.
The worst part about this tragic death, and the others to follow — because there will be others, maybe not this outbreak, but they'll come — the worst part is that invariably nothing will be learnt from it. Nothing will change from it.
Blame will be thrown around to everywhere/everyone/everything but where the blame 100% lies — the fucking ignorant moron parents that chose not to vaccinate their child.
The worst part about this tragic death, and the others to follow — because there will be others, maybe not this outbreak, but they'll come — the worst part is that invariably nothing will be learnt from it. Nothing will change from it.
Blame will be thrown around to everywhere/everyone/everything but where the blame 100% lies — the fucking ignorant moron parents that chose not to vaccinate their child.
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We have preventative measures and people choose, not just for themselves but for their children, not to take them.
Proverbs 27:12 The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.
Proverbs 27:12 The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.
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Don't both sides this. It is overwhelmingly one side. A small history reminder. It was the conservative side that didn't believe Covid was an issue. That's over one million US deaths. And here we are again.
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So in a red state if you kill your unborn fetus via a previously legal medical procedure it is now illegal, but if you kill your already born living child with a preventable disease/sickness that’s ok?
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Because of religion, we have to ban abortions!
Also because of religion, we have to let born children die of preventable diseases that they will also spread to others.
Y'know, pro life.
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That's the county wide figure - presumably the rate amongst Mennonite kids is much lower.
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Sorry, but no. It's one side giving the rest of us the problem. It's the official platform. Remember COVID? It either didn't exist or was the common cold. People died, and I fear it's going to happen again.
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Sadly, it is extremists in general. Here in the Pacific NW the ones that don't vaccinate their kids are still usually the all-natural "chemicals bad" hippie granola parents. The conservative extremists and the all natural hippies loop around the horseshoe and meet at the same anti-science stance.
edit: Shoot, we still don't do fluoridated water in Oregon because the hippie crystal clutching influence is still so strong.
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Those hippies that everyone always brings up and likes to blame? They grew up, ditched their ethics, got greedy, and became lawyers and MBAs. We're now dealing with the fallout.
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Yeah, it's really weird how that switched sides. Antivaxxers used to be a teeny-tiny population of mostly liberal, crystal-healing nutjobs, but then conservatives took it up full force. Absolutely bizarre.
Also quite sickening that Republican leadership is happy to kill their own people to gain political power.
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Treason, for letting it be known that vaccination is a good thing?
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