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Some private schools have shut down because of a rapidly escalating measles outbreak in West Texas. Local health departments are overstretched, pausing other important work as they race to limit the spread of this highly contagious virus.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

measles is also very dangerous to adults, moreso than in children. goes same for mumps and rubella, and chickenpox.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

That's rough. I feel bad for the kids that didn't have a choice in the matter. You can't help it if your parents are stupid. And what's even more fucked up is that I bet most of those parents are vaccinated and have none of the side effects that they say their kids will get.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It's those damned trans kids is what it is!! /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Maybe?...

DEI = Deny Every Injection?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I miss the old days when CRT was messing everything up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Shit i still remember when Equal Opportunity was responsible for societal downfall 👴

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I got them I was perfectly fine... But why should I give you these things that can prevent suffering? No one I have ever known has gotten this disease...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

That's a good point. Now, I do have this rock to sell you. It keeps away tigers. Only $99 with a monthly subscription to keep it working. Sign here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

For a moment I thought he was holding a fleshy ice cream cone

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

Texas going back to the Oregon trail days, people are going to start getting cholera and shit from raw milk too I bet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago

If we test less, we'll have less cases. The problem is that we're testing too much.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

Don't worry, they've got plenty of ivermectin.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Thank God they aren't vaccinated. Could you imagine if they had measles and vaccination side effects? By golly, these kids are lucky, I tell you what.

I have spent my entire adult life fighting this special brand of stupidity and hate here in Texas. I am tired, frustrated, angry, heartbroken, and more and more disillusioned in the core populous of my state. I will keep fighting these pitched battles in this rigged war in the hope that one day we can cast off this yoke of hate and greed that has dragged Texas so far down into the mud.

Hi ho

Here I am again pissing in the wind and wondering why I'm covered in piss.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Much respect.

Sometimes I imagine a counterfactual history where good people just abandoned those red states for purple ones in unison just before a census. A progressive gerrymandering of the Electoral College + House + Senate all at once.

Even just one cycle of that would have jerked the Overton window significantly left...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Texas is like "remember when everything was closed during the global pandemic? Well, we are going to close everything in Texas for our own pandemic."

What a bunch of maroons.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

They will start their own Pandemic with Black Plague and Hookworm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, they're not closing anything. This is West Texas we're talking about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Didn't they explode?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago

Measles is a DEI disease.