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

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As Hank Green said: They won’t start caring until the children start dying. He points to evidence that says that, vaccination rates decline due to mistrust or “health”, then kids start dying and they rise again. He uses multiple countries as historical examples, it’s great.

https://youtu.be/JCvLbT1uXXg

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

if you seen how they act around covid, which was selfishly, it wont be enough,. luckily covid dint affect children as severely as adults did.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Yup. The bible belt in the netherlands was a great contributor to the study of epidemics. Measles outbreaks are very consistent. Every 10 years an outbreak occurs there.