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

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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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      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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      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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    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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        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.

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          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”.

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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.

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      Gonna have to dust off the ole Herman Cain Award in short order. I for one am excited for a second round of schadenfreude.

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      I don’t think the Darwin Awards apply here if it wasn’t the decision of the deceased (child) to do the stupid thing, but of the parent(s). I would rather consider a “murder your child / make them handicapped for life” award in the form of a trial and imprisonment for endangering your child.

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

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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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      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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      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 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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    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.