Spartanburg County in South Carolina is ground zero for the largest measles outbreak since 2000. One school has a vaccination rate of 21 percent.

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    “Instead.” Sane-wash harder, NYT, I dare you.

    “I tried to ignore the traffic light, instead I got run over by a bus.”

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    Actually should note that Vaccinated children got measles too. Those dumbass Anti-vaxxers seem to think a vaccination in an individual confers full cover.

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    Sounds like they successfully shielded them from vaccines. Just so happens getting diseases is the direct result of that.

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    “Why would I give my kid a dead version of a disease?!”

    So their immune system can handle the real thing Karen…

    Antivaxxers never understood that we do run into this shit, and get infected by it.

    With a vaccine we often just don’t notice. Without one, kids die or face lifelong complications.

    Either way, they still get that “natural immunity” later.

    Not vaxxing your kids is like sending a 12 year old to play offensive tackle in the super bowl. Sure, the tough ones might live, but they’re all getting injured. And even the ones who make it would have done better in their 20s with a decade of experience.

    The vaccine is that experience and conditioning.

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      What’s silly too is the same people will do things like “chickenpox parties” and don’t see the irony of it.

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        No evolution happens constantly no matter what.

        Whether that results in beneficial or even noticable change is another thing, but it happens literally ever generation no matter what.

        And while some aspects of IQ seem to be inheritable, it’s not like most people assume.

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    All conspiracies but antivax struggle with the common question: if the conspiracy is true, why should you do what you are doing?

    Antivax in this weird sense is adequate. If vaccines are engineered in order to shrink the population, you shouldn’t give a shot to your kid.

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      But they also think the viruses are engineered to shrink the population, so they should be masking up, but they refuse to, so there’s nothing adequate about it

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        My favorite episode with them happened in Russia. There was an internet community “Leave us alone” that was simultaneously pro-Putin and opposed COVID restrictions. Then, in February 2022 they supported the war in Ukraine. But when the draft process started, the community got renamed to only include the leader name (Mashkova). Naturally, they were supporting the draft.