Hey that's where my shitty maga relatives live!
Too bad they were all born before they decided vaccines were bad, and are therefore vaccinated against measles.
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You can still get measles if you're vaccinated against it - one of the cases in this outbreak was vaccinated lol.
Ya. Vaccines depend on a healthy immune system to do their job. 
When I went to a Christian private school, one of their requirements was that I be fully vaccinated as per the then-sane vaccinate schedule. Watching the medical miracle that is vaccines dip low is horrifying. My kindergarten teacher even told us (i didnt like the needles) that vaccines are a modern miracles!
The craziest thing is that you could clearly see this coming from like a decade ago as vaccine reluctance ticked up and isolated single digit outbreaks would occasionally appear in the news. The pandemic definitely accelerated it but it was clearly happening before and there wasn't anything to stop it. Real sliding into a new dark ages shit
So if we can’t strip churches of tax exemptions despite the politics can we pretty please tax them for being menaces to the public health?
Just more proof churches are dangerous for children
Anti vaccine people are fucking vile
A couple I know is expecting their first child and they have both seemingly got caught up in the stupid facebook video algorithm that mostly promotes "health experts" who know fuck all about immunology. I've taken to just looking at them both and asking them "why go through all this trouble with pregnancy and morning sickness and child birth just to immediately kill you kid afterwards. Might as well just kill the kid now and save some trouble". I've had some success with it, but jesus christ their arguments are raising my blood-pressure.
As reactionary and backwards the churches in my country are, at least the ones I've gone to respect Covid enough to offer free vaccinations at one point. These mfs in the imperial core are too deep in their own farts to even give a shit about their own.