On Tuesday, nearly 20 percent of the school’s 1,067 students were reportedly absent.
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?
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/
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.
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.
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.
You don’t get it man, it’s like the man, man. He lies to make money so he can mine gold for the aliens since they all took over positions of power and demand gold for their… Planet? So the vaccines actually make you a dwarf miner that wants nothing more than to mine gold for the aliens, or the rich dude, for the aliens, yeah that one.
It’s so obvious sheep! All you need to do is open your eyes and listen to the totally free and not biased at all PatriotMuricaPatriotMomsBasementPatriotReport.Freedom/liberty podcast! He’s just one of us so he can be trusted™
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.
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 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.
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.
The only positive aspect of climate change is that it will largely take care of Florida.
Just sell them to some conservative retiree moving south for the freedums.
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
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.
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…
I went to evangelical boyscouts (Awanas) when I was a kid. They particularly love the verses Ephesians 2:8-9(KJV): “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.”
Basically, taken to mean “You’re going to heaven if you believe in the American Jesus (see: him on the interstate). It doesn’t matter if you are a genocidal maniac who breaks every single one of the Ten Commandments and strives to make the lives of food service and retail workers miserable because you’re still better than the most virtuous and philanthropic atheist (or Muslim/Jew/Hindu) because they are going to Hell. Oh, and free will basically means nothing because it’s all predestined.”
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.”
Well some people are stupid and write mean things on the internet so…ya know
