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Unvaccinated Florida kids exposed to measles can skip quarantine, officials say (arstechnica.com)

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

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[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 174 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 43 points 4 months ago

Wait, measles resets your immunity? Your immunity to what? Measles? Everything?

[-] Dakkaface@lemmy.world 126 points 4 months ago

Everything. The adaptations your body has learned to fight other diseases are stored as T-cells. When you need more of that particular kind of thing, your body goes and runs off copies. Measles kills your T-cells, so your body can't copy the old adaptations, only make blank-slate factory-new ones.

[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 64 points 4 months ago

Holy shit. TIL. We should be good if we were vaccinated forever ago when we were kids, right?

[-] loutr@sh.itjust.works 39 points 4 months ago

Yes.

[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 months ago

Thanks :)

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 36 points 4 months ago

TIL we found the factory reset button for the human immune system.

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[-] PlantJam@lemmy.world 44 points 4 months ago

Here's an article that describes the "immunity reset" aspect of measles: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211112-the-people-with-immune-amnesia

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

Recent research suggests it wipes a large portion of it.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/measles-immune-system-memory/

[-] APassenger@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

Measovid.

It's how they roll.

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[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 129 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 63 points 4 months ago

Regressives gonna regress, unfortunately.

[-] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 49 points 4 months ago

Polio is back too. No word on smallpox yet.

[-] FollyDolly@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

Jesus. My grandmother had polo as a child and was wheelchair bound for life because of it. And it's coming back. All because some idoits think they know better than decades of science.

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[-] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 4 months ago

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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[-] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 79 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[-] macrocephalic@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

The only positive aspect of climate change is that it will largely take care of Florida.

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[-] DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world 72 points 4 months ago

Ladapo is a quack that should be thrown in jail for child endangerment.

[-] Beer_Raccoon@lemmy.world 66 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Oh, so it's a death cult now? Cool, cool cool...

Edit: /s

[-] treefrog@lemm.ee 40 points 4 months ago

Where have you been? It's always been a death cult.

A lot of republicans want ww3 so that the bible can be fulfilled, and they can go to heaven. I'm not even joking.

[-] SecretSauces@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

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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[-] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

🌎🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

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[-] flipht@kbin.social 12 points 4 months ago

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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[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 63 points 4 months ago

The pro life party, ladies and gentlemen.

[-] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 46 points 4 months ago

I hate my state so much man. Nothing but the worst of the worst here.

[-] hactar42@lemmy.ml 22 points 4 months ago

As someone who lives in Texas, I can sympathize.

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[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 4 months ago

Man. Florida fucking sucks.

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[-] Psiczar@aussie.zone 45 points 4 months ago

In fairness to them, they are consistent when it comes to ignoring science.

[-] scaredoftrumpwinning@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Pray the measles away does have a catchy tune. I feel bad for the kids that are about to die, not their fault.

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[-] RalfWausE@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 4 months ago

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...

[-] greedytacothief@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

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

[-] ElderberryLow@programming.dev 32 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] 50gp@kbin.social 31 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 31 points 4 months ago

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

[-] numbermess@kbin.social 30 points 4 months ago

"My kid got measles and it's my fault, can I get a WHOOP WHOOP"

[-] Signtist@lemm.ee 53 points 4 months ago

Best I can do is whooping cough.

[-] RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago

I have to get out of this state before it kills me.

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[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

Can the rest of the country have a standing quarantine of Florida?

[-] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

Do we have enough paper to print darwin awards?

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[-] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 19 points 4 months ago

Is someone trying to cull all the stupid people...?

[-] EatATaco@lemm.ee 43 points 4 months ago

It's not stupid people. It's innocent children. Especially if you consider the fact that vaccines are not 100% effective (so you might get it and still be susceptible to catching it) and some people have legitimate health reasons they can't get the vaccine. It's these kids of innocent people who could also get fucked.

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