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The entire population of America, roughly 330 million, had on average 285 measles cases per year over the last decade. This single school of 1046 students has 4 cases this year so far.
Though I know it's a bad comparison, this school's rate of measles infection is like 4000 times higher than the rest of the country.
Fuckin wild
It's not that wild. Vaccinate your fucking kids. Period. We do this wild thing with our sob where we listen to the doctor...
You're preaching to the choir. No matter how many people repeat this basic life saving advice, it will be dismissed as some conspiracy to surrender autonomy and control to the government.
Looks like these parents would rather surrender their children's lives to keep their pride.
Who, aside from anyone with a basic comprehension of inoculation and awareness of its demonstrated efficacy over decades of preventing disease, could have predicted this?