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[–] [email protected] 141 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Hey guys, thanks to anti-vax grifter podcasts we now have diseases we had almost defeated circulating again! Humans are so cool!

[–] jose1324 55 points 9 months ago (4 children)
[–] umulu 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't hate the place. I hate many of the residents.

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[–] squozenode 28 points 9 months ago

Right?!

The solution to this problem isn't just "within your reach" IT'S IN YOUR FUCKING HAND!!!!

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[–] 108 102 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sad the children have to suffer for their idiot parents.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's worse than that. Vaccines are not 100% effective and some people have legitimate reasons why they can't get a vaccine...and those kids are getting fucked by other parents' poor decisions.

Non medical exemptions need to go.

[–] jj4211 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Vaccines are not 100% effective

Ah ha, so vaccines aren't effective! /s

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Failing to vaccinate a kid (unless there are legit medical reasons) should be a chargeable offence in the same way that letting them sit in the backseat of a car without a booster / seatbelt is. These parents, as stupid and credulous as they are, have endangered their kids and some of them might suffer life altering injuries or death from that.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is Florida, best you'll get is each kid getting a gun to defend from measles.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Manatee Bay in Weston Florida. I saved you a click.

It's a very affluent neighborhood in a very affluent city. Homes start at $1 Million in the entire city. Feel bad for the kids.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Great. They just had a huge soccer tournament there this past weekend, with kids (and parents) travelling from all of Florida and out of State. This is going to be 👍

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yes, but they don’t have autism, and their DNA hasnt been changed and they can’t get Covid from the 5G towers. /s

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Measles coming back might finally cow those susceptible to antivaxxer propaganda. But it will have to be widespread. People will have to die horrifically before we beat back antivaxxers to a small percentage of the population once again.

People are too fucking stupid to just get their vaccines unless there is a stick. Carrots don't work well enough, apparently. Over a disease once considered eliminated, too. I'm salty that people can't do literally anything for the greater good one a year, or even once every 10 years.

[–] wildcardology 37 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Over 500k people died of COVID-19 and yet anti-vaxx still exists and they are still growing in numbers.

Measles and chicken pox has been coming back for years, they will not change their minds. Unless it happens to them of course.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (6 children)

If this continues for a couple of generations we will have weeded out the idiots, fucking bullshit it comes at the cost of innocent children.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ironically, this is also the pro-life crowd, too. Weird how they don't care about the lives of children.

[–] toiletobserver 17 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Just before birth. After birth, it's all bootstraps.

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[–] squirrelwithnut 32 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Any parent of a kid that is unvaccinated should be charged with abuse and child endangerment IMO.

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[–] Zomg 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sadly, the stupid people had children...

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[–] FatTony 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It really is the roaring twenties all over again

Though now we're roaring out of frustration.

(Except for the suit for breakfast it really is pretty close.)

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[–] Ultraviolet 24 points 9 months ago

If I had a time machine, I'd abduct antivaxxers and take them back in time before vaccines existed and ask them to explain their position to someone who lost half a dozen children to now-preventable illnesses.

[–] pensivepangolin 21 points 9 months ago

Wow, who could’ve ever precicted not vaccinating your kids because you saw your neighborhood drunk stay at home mom who believes in healing crystals “explain” why scientists are wrong was a dumb decision that would lead to this ?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think this is Nature's way of reducing the population of stupid people. If you're too dumb to listen to the advice of scientists, you're probably too ignorant to survive in modern society. I feel sad for the waste of humanity but I have no control over your stupidity.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The issue is that it's impacting the children of stupid people (who very well may already be vaccinated). I find it difficult to rejoice in the suffering of innocent people for the actions of another.

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