On Tuesday, nearly 20 percent of the school's 1,067 students were reportedly absent.

On Tuesday, nearly 20 percent of the school’s 1,067 students were reportedly absent.

  • ElderberryLow@programming.dev
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    5 måneder siden

    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.

  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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    5 måneder siden

    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.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 måneder siden

    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.

    • macrocephalic@lemmy.world
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      4 måneder siden

      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.

    • Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      4 måneder siden

      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.

      • FollyDolly@lemmy.world
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        4 måneder siden

        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.

        • Asafum@feddit.nl
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          4 måneder siden

          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™

      • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 måneder siden

        Is polio really back? I haven’t heard anything about it in years except the drive to finally eradicate it.

    • RBWells@lemmy.world
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      4 måneder siden

      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.

    • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 måneder siden

      I’m 37 and was born immunocompromised so didn’t get any vaccines when I was younger. I went on to get measles and mumps. Measles almost killed me. Honestly, fuck antivaxxers, they can all go get fucked.

    • Atemu@lemmy.ml
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      4 måneder siden

      The same. A different BS reason would have been made up instead.

      • The_v@lemmy.world
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        4 måneder siden

        In the absence of the horrors of the diseases, people do not understand it’s risks.

        For a large percentage of people, the fear of things they don’t understand, outweigh then knowledge of the horrors of the diseases.

        It’s why I am in favor of mandated immunizations for minors (no exceptions other than serious medical conditions.).

        The only qualification to be a parent is functional gonads. Their brains don’t have to be fully functional.

    • otp@sh.itjust.works
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      4 måneder siden

      If autism wasn’t stigmatized, Wakefield would’ve chosen something else in his attack campaign of the MMR vaccine when coming out with his own alternative

  • Nomecks@lemmy.ca
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    4 måneder siden

    Waiting for the responsible parents who pulled their kids out to get charged for truancy.

      • TherouxSonfeir@lemm.ee
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        5 måneder siden

        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.

        • 800XL@lemmy.world
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          5 måneder siden

          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”.

        • tegs_terry@feddit.ukEnglish
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          4 måneder siden

          Ooh, look at me! I’m making people happy! I’m the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane!

          Oh by the way I was being sarcastic

          Homer Simpson

        • Asafum@feddit.nl
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          4 måneder siden

          WHAT DO YOU KNOW!? YOU’RE JUST A DRUNK RACCOON! GET YOUR BIAS OUT OF HERE RACCOON!

          There, all is well in the world now. :P

    • treefrog@lemm.ee
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      4 måneder siden

      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.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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        4 måneder siden

        But Armageddon already happened on - checks notes - the Plains of Megiddo.

        The Bible has very old roots, and its forward-looking statements are kinda suspect.

      • Smoogs@lemmy.world
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        4 måneder siden

        Not sure who you’re arguing with right now, but seems these republicans you speak of are more deserving of your shade.

      • SecretSauces@lemmy.world
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        4 måneder siden

        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…

        • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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          4 måneder siden

          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.”

      • rusticus@lemm.ee
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        4 måneder siden

        The greatest miracle Jesus ever created was living in the Middle East and looking like a white man.

    • flipht@kbin.social
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      4 måneder siden

      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.”

  • RalfWausE@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 måneder siden

    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…

    • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
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      4 måneder siden

      We’ve got a little trouble with an apocalyptic death cult. I mean, we would send them back to you guys…

    • greedytacothief@lemmy.world
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      4 måneder siden

      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.

    • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 måneder siden

      It’s not stupid people. It’s innocent children. Especially if you consider the fact that vaccines are not 100% effective (so you might get it and still be susceptible to catching it) and some people have legitimate health reasons they can’t get the vaccine. It’s these kids of innocent people who could also get fucked.

      • girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works
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        4 måneder siden

        The MMR vaccine is very safe and effective. Two doses of MMR vaccine are about 97% effective at preventing measles; one dose is about 93% effective. Source

        Sorry but that’s a really dumb take. So you’re saying that 97% effectiveness isn’t good enough so we shouldn’t bother at all?

        • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
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          4 måneder siden

          So you’re saying that 97% effectiveness isn’t good enough so we shouldn’t bother at all?

          No, I’m saying that the people who choose not to vaccinate their children are putting those 3% at risk.

          • Coreidan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            4 måneder siden

            They are putting more than those 3% at risk. What about all of the kids that are too young to be vaccinated? They are the real ones at danger

            • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
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              4 måneder siden

              Which would fall under “legitimate health reasons” why they can’t get one.