Over 100 children at the school are susceptible to virus.

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        This is entirely too simplistic of an answer.

        Religion is part of it for some people, but on the whole, this trend is the result of multiple issues with our culture, our education, our media, and a whole host of other things big and small. All of which have been exacerbated in recent years by bad actors.

        It’s really satisfying to say things like “religious zealots” but the world is not that simple.

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          Religion is a root cause, or at the very least (on a good day) a root enabler

          All religion is a borderline cult and with that you can control: Peoples sex habits, Peoples tastes, Peoples beliefs and from there you can control their very core behaviors and moral definitions (What’s right and wrong)

          Read up on how brainwashing happens and then read up on what most religions control and teach and you’ll notice a lot of similarities to bonafide cults. The only difference is Catholicism makes you not eat meat on Fridays and wears you down through indoctrination little be little, a bonafide cults will idk throw you in a small room to starve until you believe the leader is God reborn or something.

          I’m not saying the world would be united and there would be no evil, but maybe if religion was never a thing we would default to logic and reasoning instead of defaulting “to a higher being”

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            To anyone who includes the education system in the argument about why people are stupid:

            Teachers in those schools are either teaching through their ignorant religious lens or have their hands tied by the religious government. They teach them math, but not to think critically.

            They’re taught to start their logical process with far different assumptions/givens than pure science. In what other circumstance would “because it’s written in an ancient book” be understandable reasoning.

            I firmly believe that without religion, all those other “complicated” problems would not be nearly so complicated.

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          … Bad actors who all have ties to american religious institutions.

          Education slashed by religious politicians backed by religious pundits and think tanks.

          Media run by religious big wigs who push puritan religious values on their channels.

          Culture pushes driven by religious talking heads who repeat religious talking points about religious traditions and beliefs on all topics from science to gender to race to politics.

          Its still religion, youre just pointing at both of its arms and claiming its two people.

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          I work in vaccine tech (though mostly to make them cheaper or make them for things rich countries don’t care about). It is absolutely religion that is the problem in the US. Show me the atheists that aren’t taking MMR, TDAP, flu, hep, and covid. That’s not a thing.

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          I agree it’s oversimplified, but I don’t think it’s oversimplified to the point of being incorrect.

          During the pandemic it was overwhelmingly the hyper-religious MAGA types that were peddling that stuff… and I just don’t think that kind of misinformation ever could’ve (or ever will) propagated as effectively as it did without religious leaders and other ideologues abusing that sort of mindset.

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        With all due respect, my friend, you’ve given an unintentional answer to OP’s question. Americans have become so convinced that there are only two sides of every issue and all of life’s problems are caused by the people on the side opposite me. This is a false dillema and plays directly into the hands of people who are most powerful. “United we stand, divided we fall”, indeed…

        In truth, there are many reasons why people don’t vaccinate their kids and I’d be willing to bet that religion isn’t at the top of the list. Many parents are simply negligent. Either they’re too busy or stressed or incompetent or so unaffected by the issue that they simply can’t make it a priority to commit to the regular procedure of vaccination. Or they simply don’t trust the government or institutional authorities who promote vaccination. I imagine a lot of people are simply “natural health” fanatics. At least that’s what I’ve seen in California.

        Anyway, I think it’s not very helpful to reduce complex issues affecting the world’s largest diverse population to mere frustrated axiom.

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        Religion is a plague of idiocy, but that is not what’s causing this. Conservatism is what’s causing this.

        Progressive people who are religious tend to be pro-vaccine. Conservative religious people and conservative atheists tend to be anti-vaccine.

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          Tbh I have no idea what sort of thing is going on in the US, but it’s not religion, I have not seen any of this weird shit you all claim where I live, like you said it maybe tied to conservatism rather than religion

      • Religion zealousy can’t be “it”.

        Even the Taliban are now in support of vaccinations.

        Anti vaxxers are having a hubris that it hard to find in many other places of the world, but wealthy industrialized countries. I cannot speak for the US, but here in Germany the majority of anti-vaxxers are well educated (but not necessarily smart) upper middle class people, often with links to esoteric believes.

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      We’ve politicized everything. Seemingly at random, but we seem to have decided science is left wing lies. Send help.

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        We are the help, friend. You, me, and everyone else in the US that opposes the bullshit. We’re also the majority, and you shouldn’t let the vocal minority forget that.

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      https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/mmr-vaccination-rates-in-us-states.html

      Missouri’s vaccination coverage is statistically the lowest among US states at only 85.8%

      Massachusetts has the highest rate of vaccinations of all US states at 98.3%

      The United States was among the first countries in the world to be declared free of measles as early as the year 2000.

      Florida is ranked 25 among states, right in the middle, with 91.9% vaccinated against measles.

      The problem is when the exceptions group together such as in a school with a reputation for allowing any exception, and become a huge risk cluster. Clearly that many unvaccinated kids are not normal

      I didn’t find a ranking by country but at least one map grouped US as “purple” in the most vaccinated group. I think we basically had a success and called it a day. The crazies came out, they got together, they built on their craziness, and created their own high risk areas that brought measles back. Meanwhile we’re complacent, thinking it’s a solved problem

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      Unfortunately, the antivax crowd is not unique to America, but has spread worldwide

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      Unfortunately that is not a US only thing. MMR vaccination rates have fallen in quite a few countries.

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      It isn’t just the USA. There are anti-vaxxers all over the world.

      But you are seeing a transition from a relatively stable and prosperous time to one less so and people are freaking out as to why. One of the seen solutions is to reject modernity and embrace tradition.

      You also have a lot of mothers who have hinged their entire self worth on being good mothers. They’ve been sold an idea that vaccines cause autism and there hasn’t been an outbreak of these diseases within their lifetime, so they don’t understand the benefits in this cost-benefit scenario.

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        You can just call them ignorant idiots and in this case money doesn’t buy intelligence.

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          This is more as an attempt to understand how they got there, possibly to prevent that from happening in the future.

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        While I have plenty of issues with modern American ‘conservatism’; a good chunk of the anti-vax movement was initially driven by some of the ‘crunchier’ members of the left (ie. alternate/natural medicine, crystal healing mom-type people)…

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          Yep. When my eldest was nearing school age we lived in a pretty bad district so we went to a private school open house. Total yoga crowd. Checked the vaccination release data that night and less than half the students were up to date.

          Now the thing is, this was 9 years ago. So while it is technically true and for a brief period of time places like Mississippi could brag of a higher vaccination rate than San Francisco it was 9 years ago. It is no longer the case.

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          Politics isn’t a line, it’s a circle. Go far left enough and you become alt right. The lines blur when crystal moms go to “doctors are a conspiracy” to “government conspiracy”. It all bleeds over.

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      The way it was explained to me, or at least the way that made me really comprehend the underlying why… is that this is a direct and foreseeable consequence of our for-profit medical system and the systemic abuse of trust it’s bloomed.

      Say, for instance, you suddenly feel ill.

      You have to avoid calling an ambulance because the ride alone with bankrupt you.

      So you learn to mistrust emergency responders.

      You se the doctor and learn your ailment is uncovered.

      So you learn to mistrust medical insurance.

      You go to the pharmacy and your medication costs almost as much as your beaten down used car. And to boot, it’s full of ingredients you can’t even spell. Who knows what it does?

      So you mistrust medicine.

      But hey, there’s this Organic all natural snake oil, it’s only $10. You take this placebo, and hey (by complete coincidence) You feel better, and more importantly, you’re not bankrupt!

      So the masses have been taught, at every stage of medical care, that ‘the system’ causes more harm than good. So now you’re subconsciously looking for any reason to reject it.

      Enter Trump and the Pandemic.

      The man didn’t just light the oil spill that was the American distrust of the medical system, he took an industrial flamethrower to it.

      It’s easy, and even justified, to blame Trump for the embarrassing and deadly rejection of modern medicine we’re afflicted with, but it wouldn’t have gained traction in the first place if capitalism hadn’t gotten so beyond out of control.

      • You have the same issues with anti vaxxers in countries with universal healthcare though. They also have a distrust of “school medicine” but it is not because of financial worries. Instead it is often people with plenty of money that they put into homeopathics, going to “healers” and other nonsense.

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          You’re not wrong, but I honestly wonder what the baseline of that would be if America didn’t have this issue, and how much worse it is now because of us.

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      Freedom for everything also includes freedom to be stupid. And some are taking that seriously.

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      A few years ago the UK let their population vote to secede from the EU. The vote was barely 50/50 and the government changed everything based on a single vote. They are now measurably worse off than before, while still continuing on their path even though nobody wants to. Literally no one even wants it anymore and they can’t go back. That’s stupid.

      Americans vote for guns and against vaccines all the time. They get what they want. The people are stupid but the system accurately reflects what people vote for.

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        “The system accurately reflects what people vote for.” …Boy I have this fun American institution called the electoral college that begs to differ. Trump lost the popular vote but he sure did become president. Further examples? Majority support for the right to abortion in poll after poll but guess what? SCOTIS repudiated decades of precedent and decided it doesn’t exist as a constitutional right, at which point multiple states severely limited the right, often against clearly expressed public sentiment. America is not a democracy and it’s national politics so not serve its people.

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        The people are stupid but the system accurately reflects what people vote for.

        Sort of. It really depends on where we’re talking.

        If we’re talking about the national government, then no, it actually doesn’t. The president is not elected by popular vote, and the Senate is a deliberately anti-democratic body that does not represent the people proportionately. The Republican party controls nearly half the Senate despite Republican senators representing far fewer Americans than the Democratic senators, and moreover, the Senate doesn’t pass most things with a simple 50/50 majority.

        We have an archaic system that’s based too much on geographical lines drawn up centuries ago and not enough on what the citizens of the country actually want.

        So yes, in a very loose sense, a great deal of Americans want these things and that’s why we have them, but it’s definitely not a majority.

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          No. That’s what the sane people wanted to do after the first vote came out as a demonstrably bad decision.

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            checks

            Well, I stand corrected. That reduces my sympathy for them, which already wasn’t in a great place with them opting to become TERF island. I guess there’s solid reasons why their GDP is on par with the lowest southern states.

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      As a US citizen from New Jersey… we’re not really sure. I think our southern states were left in the sun too long, and our western states went insane from isolation. Northeastern states are fine, we’re not in denial. Housing is too expensive to need therapy.

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        New Jersey? I have two words for you:

        Chris Christie

        By the way, I forgot his name so I just searched for “fat Republican”. Lol.

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      Because the vaccine has microchips so Bill Gates can track you. No, this is not true but it is believed by some. Some people will believe anything, except scientists,and these people have very loud voices even though they are about 30% of the population. Fox news and now FB and other platforms just amplify their nonsense and hate. Not an excuse but an explanation of what we are dealing with.

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        We understand it fine, republicans slashed education and dems didnt bother to fight it.

        A stupid populus is more easily manipulated, and they wanted votes.

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          Maybe you think you understand it fine, but your comment shows you don’t actually.

          It’s a complex mix of wealth concentration,.historical racism, hollowing institutions, disintegrating trust between urban and rural populations, religious organizations watching their followers leave… the list goes on.

          America is civics on insanity mode, we are a huge country made up of a wildly diverse set of people and we are obsessed with consumption.

          But … yeah, help us all out by telling us it’s all someone else’s fault, not something you collectively share in. (assuming you’re a US citizen here based on your comment structure.)

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            You said the exact same thing I said, but more verbose.

            But nice job wacking yourself off about it while you did, shame you didnt cum.

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      Oh, it’s not just us, haha. It’s spreading everywhere. The same shit that happened in the 20th century us repeating itself, and so far, no country appears to be immune.

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      Your understanding of American gun laws is severely lacking, many European countries are less annoying than a lot of their States on purchasing guns. Gun vending machines would be very difficult to do legally, pretty sure they don’t exist.

      Guns also don’t transmit diseases in invisible ways that end up harming other people, they’re inanimate objects not breeding grounds for epidemics.

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      I’m so tired of this. What is wrong with YOU thinking all Americans think this way? Do you have any idea how wrong you are? Seriously, do you?

      What the FUCK is a gun vending machine? I’ve lived here all my life and I have no idea what you’re on about. Was it some fringe thing at a Texas gun show or something? Are you THAT impressionable to believe everyone in my entire country is like this?

      Edit: Downvotes without any response to my valid rebuke. You might as well not bother, I’m just going to assume you’re one dude with six accounts.

      80% of Americans have had at least one vaccination for covid. That’s quite low, relatively speaking, but it clearly disproves the broad assertions that all, or even most, Americans are to blame here.

      This sort of distillation dismisses the countless supermajority of sensible Americans that are not only fighting tooth and nail against ignorance like this, but are dealing with it at a very local level. Being judged for the ignorance of our minority is not only cruel here, but it also ironically makes you seem very ignorant yourself.

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    Hey guys, thanks to anti-vax grifter podcasts we now have diseases we had almost defeated circulating again! Humans are so cool!

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        I feel such deep and powerful hatred because it’s not just a sudden illness that goes away. People don’t realize that not only will some of these children die but some of them will develop lifelong debilitating illness such as central nervous system diseases including SSPE as well as a type of AIDs. Viruses cause permanent damage.

        In the same way that Polio can cripple people, Chickenpox can cause shingles, and the Spanish Flu lead to a worldwide outbreak of Encephalitis Lethargica characterized by a chronic loss of consciousness trapping you inside your own body like a prison.

        Those people are subjecting this to children. If I wrote the laws, this would be a crime punished on the same level as murder.

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        Idk. You leave shitty comments around in the same irresponsible way that the antivax parents do. You think people give a shit about what you say, exactly like them.

        You don’t hate this place. You fucking hate yourself. Taking a shit over in some unrelated thread may feel good to you but it can’t hide how weak and just… sad you are

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      Right?!

      The solution to this problem isn’t just “within your reach” IT’S IN YOUR FUCKING HAND!!!

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      It’s worse than that. Vaccines are not 100% effective and some people have legitimate reasons why they can’t get a vaccine…and those kids are getting fucked by other parents’ poor decisions.

      Non medical exemptions need to go.

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        Vaccines are not 100% effective

        Ah ha, so vaccines aren’t effective! /s

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          And since wiping your butt does not get you 100% clean, I just shit my pants now. I am a very smart boy.

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      The devil is in the details though. Covid vaccines are not a good example of this as they mostly reduce the risk of dying from Covid. You can still get sick and distribute the virus, it is just a ton milder and much less dangerous (which is still useful and you should get vaccinated obviously, just saying before anyone thinks I am anti vaccine). The measles vaccine however prevents people from getting sick at all, unless I am mistaken.

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        I hate that people in charge were never able to properly communicate this subtle difference.

        Some vaccines give you immunity, others resistance.

        Some people thought the vaccine for covid was supposed to give immunity and when it didn’t they thought they were lied to and started to distrust vaccines 😕

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          I hate that people in charge were never able to properly communicate this subtle difference.

          It was communicated just fine. I got that info. You got that info. It was out there. But the signal to noise ratio was unreal. People seem to prefer soundbites and false dichotomies over accurate, nuanced information. Sprinkle in a metric shitton of wedge issue misinformation delivered via sledgehammer and you get what we got:

          VACCINE BAD!

          VACCINE GOOD!

          GRANDPA HAVE VACCINE BUT STILL DIE!

          VACCINE STILL GOOD!

          I HAVE VACCINE BUT STILL GET SICK AND BOSS MAKE ME STAY HOME AND NO GET MONEY! VACCINE BAD!

          VACCINE… BAD?

          DOCTOR LIED! SCIENCE BAD!

          Well actually…

          YOU STUPID, VACCINE BAD!

          VACCINE BAD!

          COVID OVER, NO NEED VACCINE!

          HOORAY!

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        Sadly, ou are mistaken. The 89% of vaccinated kids are at risk of measles as it is circulating in that community.

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            Is it 97% on the basis that herd immunization makes your exposure unlikely, so that you’d at best be exposed to a single person that could contract it to you?

            Or is it 97% on the basis that you are submerged in an atmosphere full of people sick from measles?

            WHO information on these numbers

            So either it refers to a clinical trial with a defined exposure, or it referes to empircal data that is based on the conditions in the real world, which critically includes the herd immunity.

            Herd immunity is a critical factor and it works exponentially. E.g. from 100% to 95% is less of an issue than from 95% to 90% The critical point for measles is at around 92% to prevent exponential infections. This included the risk for people who are vaccinated

            Measles are among the most contagious diseases. To interpret the graph. Because of the high R rate w.o. immunization, you need 92% immunization rates to have one measle case cause another measle case, e.g. reproduction = 1. You go below and it goes exponential.

            Wikipedia - Herd immunity

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            So 89% of children have a 3% risk of catching measles if exposed, that’s 30 children given the article numbers, out of 1100 total children.

            I believe this is called a risk, given you can’t know which children the vaccine won’t work.

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            If nursing a patient with measles, there is a reason why gloves and hand hygine is still required. Medically, we consider the 97% effective as a population average besed upon “usual exposure”. That means 3 in 100 vaccinated children are likely to contract measles this way. If your. local exposure is higher, then there are higher infection rates in that peer group. If you sit next to me for 5 mins you have one risk of exposure. If we are kids in a classroom together for several hours, then the transmission risk is higher. So yes, just like COVID, the higher the proportion of infective people and the longer the contact time the greater the risk of infection and also transmission.

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            Measles also correlates highly with a loss of immune system strength, meaning being unvaccinated and catching it technically gives people AIDs as well.

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            3% risk is really freaking high when there’s lots of virus around you

            3% of the 89% times how many students? That’s a hell of a lot of suffering invaccinated individuals.

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    Failing to vaccinate a kid (unless there are legit medical reasons) should be a chargeable offence in the same way that letting them sit in the backseat of a car without a booster / seatbelt is. These parents, as stupid and credulous as they are, have endangered their kids and some of them might suffer life altering injuries or death from that.

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    Manatee Bay in Weston Florida. I saved you a click.

    It’s a very affluent neighborhood in a very affluent city. Homes start at $1 Million in the entire city. Feel bad for the kids.

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      Great. They just had a huge soccer tournament there this past weekend, with kids (and parents) travelling from all of Florida and out of State. This is going to be 👍

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        If your child is vaccinated then they are 97% protected.

        You’re probably still more statistically likely to get bit by an alligator, or stabbed by a homeless man.

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          Thats not how statistic work.

          At 97%, a thousand children in attendance were exposed that would translate to 30 vaccinated children being infected.

          If 30 children at the tournament were stabbed by the homeless, it would be international news and be labeled a massacre.

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          You’re probably still more statistically likely to get bit by an alligator, or stabbed by a homeless man

          I mean, we are talking about Florida, so I still don’t like them odds

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    Yes, but they don’t have autism, and their DNA hasnt been changed and they can’t get Covid from the 5G towers. /s

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    Measles coming back might finally cow those susceptible to antivaxxer propaganda. But it will have to be widespread. People will have to die horrifically before we beat back antivaxxers to a small percentage of the population once again.

    People are too fucking stupid to just get their vaccines unless there is a stick. Carrots don’t work well enough, apparently. Over a disease once considered eliminated, too. I’m salty that people can’t do literally anything for the greater good one a year, or even once every 10 years.

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      Over 500k people died of COVID-19 and yet anti-vaxx still exists and they are still growing in numbers.

      Measles and chicken pox has been coming back for years, they will not change their minds. Unless it happens to them of course.

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      Measles coming back might finally cow those susceptible to antivaxxer propaganda.

      Nah. I used to believe, but not anymore.

      Some Joe Rogan monkey brain who is “just asking questions” will blame their followers for not doing their own research with their dead kids.

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    If this continues for a couple of generations we will have weeded out the idiots, fucking bullshit it comes at the cost of innocent children.

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      At first I though this was a bit draconian; that is, solving what is largely an education/misinformation issue and diminishing civil liberties all the while opening the door to abuse from a more nefarious government — on the other hand, it would force the topic of vaccinations into a court of law where anti-vaxx fallacies would fall completely flat.

      Personally I’d much rather bring up charges against the primary sources of such misinformation; then that might cause them to think twice about spreading lies in the future.

      But America is open for business when it comes to grift. From Alex Jones and Joe Rogan to Steve Bannon — they understand that the gullible are profitable.

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        The problem is with primary souce is that for all intents and purposes there isnt one anymore. Sure back in the 90s there were but its a lot like creationism, a rat king of lies and stupid shit. Self perpetrating bullshit has to be dealt with via other means.

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    If I had a time machine, I’d abduct antivaxxers and take them back in time before vaccines existed and ask them to explain their position to someone who lost half a dozen children to now-preventable illnesses.

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    Wow, who could’ve ever precicted not vaccinating your kids because you saw your neighborhood drunk stay at home mom who believes in healing crystals “explain” why scientists are wrong was a dumb decision that would lead to this ?

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    I think this is Nature’s way of reducing the population of stupid people. If you’re too dumb to listen to the advice of scientists, you’re probably too ignorant to survive in modern society. I feel sad for the waste of humanity but I have no control over your stupidity.

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      The issue is that it’s impacting the children of stupid people (who very well may already be vaccinated). I find it difficult to rejoice in the suffering of innocent people for the actions of another.

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        Lol “survive” on a longer biological scale means living AND reproducing. These idiots are capping off their own bloodlines

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        Oh absolutely! I apologize for not making it clear that I blame these stupid people for their stupidity.

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        While not always the case, the children of stupid people often become the next generation of stupid people.