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The majority of assholes in these areas are still vaccinated, unfortunately. It's the kids that will be suffering, from the decisions of their parents. If disease would eradicate the unvaccinated quickly enough to wipe out the texas undesirables, we wouldn't have had the current election outcome in the first place.
It won't just be the kids, adults as well, those who can't be vaccinated for legitimate reasons and those whose immunity has gone.
The UK don't vaccinate against chicken pox for a similar reason (namely, most people in the UK have acquired their immunity naturally and get a natural booster through contact with a child at points through their life - introducing the vaccination as one of our regular youth vaccines would remove the natural booster and the impact on older generations who's immunity has waned would outweigh the benefits of vaccinating). Obviously measles isn't chicken pox and should be vaccinated for, just using that as an example.
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
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.
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.