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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 :)
TIL we found the factory reset button for the human immune system.
If only. You'd think it could potentially fix some auto immune disorders as a side effect, but nope, all negatives.
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/
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.
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.
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.
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.
The pro life party, ladies and gentlemen.
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...
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."
almost /nottheonion material with the post about permission forms for teens to watch kids movies in school next to this one
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.
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.
"My kid got measles and it's my fault, can I get a WHOOP WHOOP"
Best I can do is whooping cough.
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...
I hate my state so much man. Nothing but the worst of the worst here.
Waiting for the responsible parents who pulled their kids out to get charged for truancy.
Can the rest of the country have a standing quarantine of Florida?
I’m pretty okay with where Florida is going. Just keep it in Florida
Yeah, we should be good until climate refugee crisis in 2029.
Poor Canada is going to have a border problem 😅
Americans will suddenly be offended they can’t just go to Canada to live and work.
I love that episode of South Park.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_My_Country_Gone%3F
Garrison gets the entire town behind his proposal to literally "fuck the Canadians to death", then build a wall to prevent further illegal immigration from Canada. However, it is discovered that Canada has already built an immense border wall of its own, to (according to a Canada border guard) prevent Americans from raping Canadian women and preserve Canada's "cool shit".