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Texas official warns against “measles parties” as outbreak keeps growing (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Fuck Texas, its politicians and its stupid parents.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Stupid is as stupid does.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Naaah… I say we let those morons measel the ever-loving shit out of one another. But let them do it on an island somewhere in the middle of the Sea of Tranquility.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Try and control those rabidly ignorant bigots you force-fed with anti-science, anti-reason raw red meat, let's see how that goes.
This is 'Murica! Muh freehdum!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago

Wow. Texas out-Texases Texas.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not getting sick is what BIG PHARMA wants you to do!

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago (12 children)

If we got the vaccine as a kid, we’re good to go, right?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Most likely, but the chance of getting it anyway isn't zero.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Saw a headline that the MMR vaccine may be reduced in effectiveness after 40-ish years. It's all breaking news since people being so backwards as to not be vaccinated in numbers to allow this kind of study to even materialize in a world that has a proven cure is certainly recent.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I got an MMR vaccine at 40 for a job, and only had to because my records from small town Canada weren’t available from my childhood vaccinations.

Crazy to me that it might actually matter.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Twenty thousand tons of ivermectin to Texas. Stat! That'll fix everything!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago

What the fuck is it that makes these people turn into lemmings as soon as Trump is in office?

And yes, I know Disney staged the whole lemmings jumping off a cliff thing, but the analogy stands, so don't fuckin' @ me.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago

What a marvelously American headline.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago

I am sure the people who hold measles parties will definitely listen to the government's recommendations on health decisions.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Chicken pox parties were a thing in the 70s and 80s. I think that’s before they had a vaccine? I don’t remember measles parties being a thing though.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (3 children)

No shit, chicken pox is not particularly serious compared to fucking measles. These people are idiots

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