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

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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      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.

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      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.

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    This state is being ran by trash people, same as the rest of the red states.

    Edit: All of you getting excited to see Florida get destroyed can fuck right off, normal people who don’t vote for conservatives live here too, grow tf up and stop treating these things like it’s team sports. The GOP is the problem, not some random citizens of the states they hold hostage.

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            You know you sound like one of those conservative assholes right now, right? Are you going to tell me to make some sneakers or NFTs next?

            This is our home dickhead, home to three generations of my family in four separate houses, so that’s not an easy sell to move, especially when your parents are dead set on dying here. Maybe try not acting like a f’n sociopath and remember that millions of real people who have never ever voted conservative and continue to work against conservatives live in this state.

            Also way to treat politics like it’s some kind of team sports event rather than remembering that this stuff affects actual people.

            Edit: oh and nice job using an alias account to not only reply to yourself but also boost your updoots you nerdy ass fraud. Maybe next time don’t name your alias so similar to your primary account.

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        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…

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          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.”

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

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        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.

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

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      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.”

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          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

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          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

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

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        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.

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      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

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    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…

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      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.

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

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    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.

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

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    almost /nottheonion material with the post about permission forms for teens to watch kids movies in school next to this one