Unvaccinated Florida kids exposed to measles can skip quarantine, officials say
Unvaccinated Florida kids exposed to measles can skip quarantine, officials say
On Tuesday, nearly 20 percent of the school's 1,067 students were reportedly absent.
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.
Regressives gonna regress, unfortunately.
Polio is back too. No word on smallpox yet.
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.
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.
I'm 37 and was born immunocompromised so didn't get any vaccines when I was younger. I went on to get measles and mumps. Measles almost killed me. Honestly, fuck antivaxxers, they can all go get fucked.
I'm around your age and didn't have measles but did have mumps (the other M in the MMR shot) and everyone I knew had chicken pox. I don't know how the immunizations worked back then (what the schedule was) we did get the shots. Had mumps as a preschooler, chicken pox around 7. Uncomplicated both times, my brothers were younger when the chicken pox came through and had it worse.
Smallpox and chicken pox are different diseases.
This state is being ran by trash people, same as the rest of the red states.
Edit: All of you getting excited to see Florida get destroyed can fuck right off, normal people who don't vote for conservatives live here too, grow tf up and stop treating these things like it's team sports. The GOP is the problem, not some random citizens of the states they hold hostage.
Ladapo is a quack that should be thrown in jail for child endangerment.
Oh, so it's a death cult now? Cool, cool cool...
Edit: /s
Which is mindblowing, because you'd think committing acts that would lead to the apocalypse would invalidate you from going to heaven.
Keeping in their line of thinking, you're actively destroying the earth and killing the people God created so you can selfishly get yourself into heaven.
Olympic Gold-level mental gymnastics there...
The greatest miracle Jesus ever created was living in the Middle East and looking like a white man.
Easy guy, I know. Calling the GOP a death cult is like saying water is wet. Should have added a /s
But Armageddon already happened on - checks notes - the Plains of Megiddo.
The Bible has very old roots, and its forward-looking statements are kinda suspect.
Not sure who you’re arguing with right now, but seems these republicans you speak of are more deserving of your shade.
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Lol, I appreciate the format
Been a death cult. Any pro-life stance they have is to create more soldiers for the forever war.
They don't believe anyone should have a decent life, because then they wouldn't be driven to die to get to heaven.
They don't want to provide education beyond what's needed to believe your pastor regarding his interpretation of the Bible. If you want education, they want to force you into the army for, you guessed it, forever war.
They worship a god who begat himself just to sacrifice himself to himself, to "save" us from the sin that he orchestrated. And every one of their policies mirrors this "logic."
There are Christians who believe that Jesus is the embodiment of God's love, grace, forgiveness, charity, etc. But they're not the ones in control of the churches, or any of the "seven mountains."
The pro life party, ladies and gentlemen.
I hate my state so much man. Nothing but the worst of the worst here.
As someone who lives in Texas, I can sympathize.
Appreciate you both. Edit: from coastal elite ivory tower
Man. Florida fucking sucks.
Bugs Bunny was right, we should just saw it off and push it into the ocean
In fairness to them, they are consistent when it comes to ignoring science.
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...
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.
We've got a little trouble with an apocalyptic death cult. I mean, we would send them back to you guys...
Yeah this checks out for Florida. I wouldn’t be surprised if the vaccination rate declines over the next few years. Talk about having a burr up your ass from Covid vaccines.
Waiting for the responsible parents who pulled their kids out to get charged for truancy.
The same. A different BS reason would have been made up instead.
In the absence of the horrors of the diseases, people do not understand it's risks.
For a large percentage of people, the fear of things they don't understand, outweigh then knowledge of the horrors of the diseases.
It's why I am in favor of mandated immunizations for minors (no exceptions other than serious medical conditions.).
The only qualification to be a parent is functional gonads. Their brains don't have to be fully functional.
If autism wasn't stigmatized, Wakefield would've chosen something else in his attack campaign of the MMR vaccine when coming out with his own alternative
almost /nottheonion material with the post about permission forms for teens to watch kids movies in school next to this one
"My kid got measles and it's my fault, can I get a WHOOP WHOOP"
Best I can do is whooping cough.
I have to get out of this state before it kills me.
Panic?
Can the rest of the country have a standing quarantine of Florida?
Do we have enough paper to print darwin awards?
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.
Gonna have to dust off the ole Herman Cain Award in short order. I for one am excited for a second round of schadenfreude.
I love it especially later in the election season.
Is someone trying to cull all the stupid people...?
It's not stupid people. It's innocent children. Especially if you consider the fact that vaccines are not 100% effective (so you might get it and still be susceptible to catching it) and some people have legitimate health reasons they can't get the vaccine. It's these kids of innocent people who could also get fucked.
It's not like conservatives are above eugenics.
The MMR vaccine is very safe and effective. Two doses of MMR vaccine are about 97% effective at preventing measles; one dose is about 93% effective. Source
Sorry but that's a really dumb take. So you're saying that 97% effectiveness isn't good enough so we shouldn't bother at all?
I’m pretty okay with where Florida is going. Just keep it in Florida
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.
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.
Mesovidlioma
Well yeah, but if it gives you immune amnesia then it's like you were never vaccinated for all the other things too.
It's the antivaxxer's re-virginization.
I wouldn't be surprised if some intentionally infected their kids to try to undo past required vaccinations.
You can be revirginized once before you become immune to revirginization!
It might cost us money, so some of you may die, but that’s a risk we’re willing to take.