Reports that they're reverting to the dark ages in the USA may be onto something
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Wed 16 Jul 2025, 8:49,
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says someone living in a country where a child just died with measles
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The one in the UK? Second measles death in five years.
Or the one a few months ago in the U.S., one of three deaths so far this year?
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Yeah, I wasn't intending to make a direct comparison because the situation is worse there.
My only point is that we're not really in much of a position to affect superiority (not that garold was, I'm sure) because the direction of travel is depressing here too.
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I had measles when I was a kid. I've never had plague.
This is where plague lives:
I've heard many stories of tourists returning with plague and being cured with antibiotics. I'm looking for plague deaths in the UK in modern times, but all I've found is an outbreak in Suffolk 1906-1918.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 16 Jul 2025, 17:02,
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Or the 13.5 percent of U.S. households that were food insecure at some time during 2023
I'd prefer to live in the country where one kid dies from measles than the one where a good chunk literally can't afford food (or medical treatment)
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 16 Jul 2025, 10:34,
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I don't doubt it
but I stand by what I said as a preference.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Thu 17 Jul 2025, 2:02,
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Probably won't be
just one kid for long. Antivax fuckwits are growing in number everywhere.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Wed 16 Jul 2025, 12:27,
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Very sad for immune suppressed people.
As for the rest, think of it as a gullibility cull.
I was just reading today about frontal lobe deficiencies, cited as a cause of rigidity and lack of critical thinking in fundies.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Wed 16 Jul 2025, 17:54,
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It would be nice to think of it as just a problem for anti-vaxxers
But low vaccine uptake results in a failure of herd immunity and a much higher infection rate. If vaccines guaranteed protection that would be fine, but they don't. It also seems reasonable to assume that higher infection rates would result in higher mutation rates and faster evolution of vaccine-resistant strains.
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Wed 16 Jul 2025, 18:20,
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I know, I know, wishful thinking on my part.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Wed 16 Jul 2025, 19:53,
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Well,it's hardly the kids' fault if they have thick parents,
and you don't get the vaccine for a year, so no kids are safe unless there's a good take-up rate.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Wed 16 Jul 2025, 19:29,
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I'd forgotten about the delay in giving it.
I'm pretty sure I was one of the kids who didn't get it, subsequently getting measles and rubella.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Wed 16 Jul 2025, 19:57,
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I'm waiting for the next time the anti-vax cunts set up stall in Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens...
I've got plans...
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Wed 16 Jul 2025, 20:07,
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That's rather ironic, don't you think?
That they are growing in number, that is
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Thu 17 Jul 2025, 2:03,
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My dad used this argument
Was kind of undermined by learning at that moment that his grandson was autistic, and that the family would rather have him that way than dead from measels.
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Thu 17 Jul 2025, 18:29,
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Plague aside, if you get rid of your gardeners and don't maintain them yourself then don't be surprised if the rats move in
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