• TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com
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    8 days ago

    short version: baby had measles when she was too young to be vaccinated. She recovered, only to die ten years later of a rare complication of measles. :'(

    Herd immunity is real. Vaccinate your kids !

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    Some people need concrete examples because they can’t work things out in the abstract. So it’s a good thing this is in the NYT, so plenty of conservatives will see it.

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      The NYT throws the left a bone every now and then in an attempt to hide them kissing up to fascists. It kind of works too, for the busy people. You have to check it out for awhile to understand that it’s 90% shit.

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        The problem is that it’s 90% stories that don’t really lend themselves to partisan outcomes. Their fascism comes out only once in a while, when Sulzberger thinks it’s important.

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    I was vaccinated and still got it as a kid. I was hospitalized for it.

    I was young so I can’t recall much except I kept accidentally ripping out the iv and eventually they put my arm in a wood box thing to keep me from moving it.

    My mom says though that I almost died.

    And I was vaccinated. A few people are still vulnerable even with it. It’s why everyone needs to be vaccinated for it to work.

    I’m lucky. I didn’t have any long term cognitive or hearing damage. But a lot of kids do.

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    Gut wrenching. The pain that conspiracy parrots have caused is so painful. Fuck ‘em all! Don’t believe a word they ever say. They just want to be right regardless of the human toll. The only thing they want is you believing their lies so they can add a mark on the tally they’ve turned — regardless of the cost.

    Fuck ‘em all!

  • Spacehooks@reddthat.com
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    This keep going ppl are going to keep their kids in bubbles until old enough for vaccines. My relatives child got covid 3x the first year of his life. Like its insane.