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Whooping Cough Epidemic in California
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Whooping Cough Epidemic in California
June 24, 2010 at 10:58 am
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ColdandFlu/...d=11000305

The real tangible fallout from anti-vaccination propaganda.
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RE: Whooping Cough Epidemic in California
June 24, 2010 at 11:18 am
How are kids even getting in schools without vaccinations? I know where I live you just aren't allowed to go if you aren't properly vaccinated.
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RE: Whooping Cough Epidemic in California
June 24, 2010 at 11:34 am
(June 24, 2010 at 11:18 am)Jaysyn Wrote: How are kids even getting in schools without vaccinations? I know where I live you just aren't allowed to go if you aren't properly vaccinated.

There are loopholes, like religious exemption.
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RE: Whooping Cough Epidemic in California
June 24, 2010 at 12:10 pm
That's fine....but the little fucks should then be kept out of school. Let them be home-schooled by their idiot parents.
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RE: Whooping Cough Epidemic in California
June 24, 2010 at 12:17 pm
(June 24, 2010 at 12:10 pm)Minimalist Wrote: That's fine....but the little fucks should then be kept out of school. Let them be home-schooled by their idiot parents.

Well, thats a practic sollution, but then we would have more fundies around.
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RE: Whooping Cough Epidemic in California
June 24, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Parents shouldn't have the right to not vaccinate their kids. Its a form of child abuse (abuse through deliberate neglect).

We'd all be up in arms if it transpired that some fundie cult was purposefully infecting their children with whooping cough. This amounts to the same thing. In both cases the end result is lots of sick kids.
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RE: Whooping Cough Epidemic in California
June 24, 2010 at 12:37 pm
(June 24, 2010 at 12:17 pm)LastPoet Wrote:
(June 24, 2010 at 12:10 pm)Minimalist Wrote: That's fine....but the little fucks should then be kept out of school. Let them be home-schooled by their idiot parents.

Well, thats a practic sollution, but then we would have more fundies around.

Not if they die from Whooping Cough or some other easily preventable disease.
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RE: Whooping Cough Epidemic in California
June 24, 2010 at 4:05 pm
(June 24, 2010 at 12:10 pm)Minimalist Wrote: That's fine....but the little fucks should then be kept out of school. Let them be home-schooled by their idiot parents.

Pretty much what Lastpoet said..

They will simply be the next generation of dumbass politicians, judges, etc. in some cases.....The rest will be working in ditches fucking their cousins and/or jail....
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