jangbones - 2019-03-01
https://www.amazon.com/Melanies-Marvelous-Measles-Stephanie-Messen ger/dp/1466938897
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The Mothership - 2019-03-02
All my stars are for the last 10 seconds.
Also, I grew up in Clark County, WA, where the measles outbreak currently is.
Avoid this area for your own safety if you have small children. Or for many other reasons, it is not a place to visit.
Happy to answer questions.
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The Mothership - 2019-03-03 There is a very large number of Russian immigrants that were brought in to Clark County by Evangelical Christians in the 90s.
So, to answer your question: perhaps.
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John Holmes Motherfucker - 2019-03-02
ICE gets an autofive everytime.
I can report that fifty years ago, the measles, chicken pox, and the mumps were considered "childhood diseases" , something that every kid got. They were a trope of comic strips like Little Lulu and Nancy and Sluggo. think it was considered especially desirable to have your mumps early, since mumps can be truly horrible for an adult male, manifesting as a painful swelling of the testicles. It laid my Dad up for a solid week.
My point is that the failure to vaccinate of some parents isn't just bad science and conspiracy theories, though it certainly is that in full. But it's also the culture of the past holding back the culture of the present. There's a new series on Netflix called "Workin' Moms", and it was startling for me to see the dread of contemporary (fictional) parents toward a possible diagnosis of measles for their child. The culture has changed. Not all at once, I guess.
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Meerkat - 2019-03-02 It also used to be that if you were negligent and let your child fall down the stairs, resulting in their full body paralysis for life, it was "just one of those things".
My brother in law had an uncle in a wheelchair for life because he fell off the porch which had no railings when his dad opened the door and another one that died in childhood because he fell from the loft in a barn.
Childhood mortality was not as big a deal back then. Maybe that's why older voters don't really twig on childhood mortality as a measure of USA #1 WOOHOO SUCK IT YURP
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Meerkat - 2019-03-02 Oh also that was in Canada so it's not like it's a US only thing. I think there were just a lot more childhood deaths back then, not that parents just shrugged when their kids got snuffed.
As an addendum when I was a kid we used to go rafting in the toxic waste pond behind a chemical plant and our parents didn't stop us. At all. They didn't even suggest it was not a good idea. My mom would complain if I came home with boots full of sludge and tracked it on the carpet or if she had to wash my pants because they smelled funny but that's about it.
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Old_Zircon - 2019-03-02 Low child mortality is a recent phenomenon and the jury's still very much out on how well it's going to work out for us in the long run.
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Ersatz - 2019-03-04
Anti-vaccination rhetoric was started by Big Pharma as a way to create more sick kids so they can sell more children's Tylenol and ibuprofen.
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casualcollapse - 2022-08-21
Two x's in antivaxx ol zircon
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