• Kitathalla@lemy.lol
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      8 days ago

      The majority of assholes in these areas are still vaccinated, unfortunately. It’s the kids that will be suffering, from the decisions of their parents. If disease would eradicate the unvaccinated quickly enough to wipe out the texas undesirables, we wouldn’t have had the current election outcome in the first place.

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        7 days ago

        It won’t just be the kids, adults as well, those who can’t be vaccinated for legitimate reasons and those whose immunity has gone.

        The UK don’t vaccinate against chicken pox for a similar reason (namely, most people in the UK have acquired their immunity naturally and get a natural booster through contact with a child at points through their life - introducing the vaccination as one of our regular youth vaccines would remove the natural booster and the impact on older generations who’s immunity has waned would outweigh the benefits of vaccinating). Obviously measles isn’t chicken pox and should be vaccinated for, just using that as an example.

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        As Hank Green said: They won’t start caring until the children start dying. He points to evidence that says that, vaccination rates decline due to mistrust or “health”, then kids start dying and they rise again. He uses multiple countries as historical examples, it’s great.

        https://youtu.be/JCvLbT1uXXg

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          if you seen how they act around covid, which was selfishly, it wont be enough,. luckily covid dint affect children as severely as adults did.

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          Yup. The bible belt in the netherlands was a great contributor to the study of epidemics. Measles outbreaks are very consistent. Every 10 years an outbreak occurs there.

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      8 days ago

      Unfortunately, it wont stay contained to the people who are doing it. Kids will die, across the world, because of these anti-vacs people.

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        If you mean that Texas will survive, it will, of course. Just like earth will quite easily survive climate change. Most of us won’t, but to the earth that it but a scratch.

        In the same way, Texas will be fine. Loads of Texans, though, will not.

        And as viruses bacteria and fungi couldn’t give two shits about your cute borders, the joy and happiness of measles will spread tomother states, them countries.

        At least in other countries, most people still are vaccinated.

        I have a hatred for unvaccinated idiots (with the exception of peopem that have REAL reasons not to vaccinate, immune issues, etc, NOT religion), as far as I’m concerned they should all be shipped off to some remote island, be quarantined, and a hundred years from now we’ll come back to clear the bones.