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Oh, so it's a death cult now? Cool, cool cool...
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Where have you been? It's always been a death cult.
A lot of republicans want ww3 so that the bible can be fulfilled, and they can go to heaven. I'm not even joking.
Easy guy, I know. Calling the GOP a death cult is like saying water is wet. Should have added a /s
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Lol, I appreciate the format
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In fairness to them, they are consistent when it comes to ignoring science.
Consistently hurting our children too.
Pray the measles away does have a catchy tune. I feel bad for the kids that are about to die, not their fault.
What the hell is wrong over there? At the moment i think every news article considering the US is making me shaking my head harder...
We've got a little trouble with an apocalyptic death cult. I mean, we would send them back to you guys...
I mean most people from the US ask "What the hell is wrong over there?" About Florida pretty regularly. So clearly the other 49 states also have no clue either.
Do we have enough paper to print darwin awards?
Gonna have to dust off the ole Herman Cain Award in short order. I for one am excited for a second round of schadenfreude.
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I don't think the Darwin Awards apply here if it wasn't the decision of the deceased (child) to do the stupid thing, but of the parent(s). I would rather consider a "murder your child / make them handicapped for life" award in the form of a trial and imprisonment for endangering your child.
Maybe the parents could get Darwin awards for still managing to prevent their genes from propagating.
Exactly its just bad luck the dead children had dumb parents.
almost /nottheonion material with the post about permission forms for teens to watch kids movies in school next to this one
However, due to the high immunity rate in the community, as well as the burden on families and educational costs of healthy children missing school, [the health department] is deferring to parents or guardians to make decisions about school attendance."
This is fucking bonkers.
We know it's hard on you, so fuck preventing a breakout of the most contagious disease we've encountered, that not only is bad on its own, but resets your immunity fucking you over even more for years to come.
Wait, measles resets your immunity? Your immunity to what? Measles? Everything?
Everything. The adaptations your body has learned to fight other diseases are stored as T-cells. When you need more of that particular kind of thing, your body goes and runs off copies. Measles kills your T-cells, so your body can't copy the old adaptations, only make blank-slate factory-new ones.
Holy shit. TIL. We should be good if we were vaccinated forever ago when we were kids, right?
Yes.
Thanks :)
Here's an article that describes the "immunity reset" aspect of measles: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211112-the-people-with-immune-amnesia
Recent research suggests it wipes a large portion of it.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/measles-immune-system-memory/
Measovid.
It's how they roll.
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I'm 53. I have never met, or heard of, a person that had measles. I honestly don't really know what it is.
As kids, we all thought that shit was extinct. Measles were as irrelevant as smallpox and polio.
I'm a bit younger than you but I remember measles was something recent when I was a kid, but it also wasn't something that any of my contemporaries caught. This is what happens when you spend 40 years telling everyone that their opinion matters; your opinion doesn't mean shit when it goes against verifiable scientific research.
My mom lost a brother to measles in the 50s. She is hard core pro-vacination, and will to this day proudly show off the scar from getting one of the first polio vaccines.
Polio is back too. No word on smallpox yet.
Jesus. My grandmother had polo as a child and was wheelchair bound for life because of it. And it's coming back. All because some idoits think they know better than decades of science.
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Is polio really back? I haven't heard anything about it in years except the drive to finally eradicate it.
Unlike smallpox, no other global campaign to eradicate diseases has ever happened.
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Cheers. Well that's depressing.
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Regressives gonna regress, unfortunately.
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