Texas this year has been the center of the nation’s largest measles outbreak in more than two decades, as a mostly eradicated disease has sickened more than 700 in the state, sent dozens to hospitals and led to the death of two children who were unvaccinated.
But even as the outbreak slows, a bill approved by state lawmakers and sent to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott would make it significantly easier for parents to enroll their children in school without standard vaccinations for diseases such as measles, whooping cough, polio and hepatitis A and B.
Supporters say the bill streamlines an already legal exemption process that allows families to avoid vaccines for reasons of conscience, religious beliefs or medical reasons. It would let them download the required forms from a website instead of contacting state health officials and waiting for one to come in the mail.
The Republican party is a death cult.
Well, considering that Christianity is literally a cult of human sacrifice, only that one was apparently enough, yeah. They are.
some people see a tornado and hide. some people see a tornado and just have to see how close they can get to it without being killed.
that’s shit’s fine, and it makes for great footage.
these people see a tornado and want to see how close your children can get without being killed. it’s different.
They see a tornado and make you throw your kids in.
Maybe the problem is that you’re not exposing your children to enough storms. We should ban all roofs and then immunity will come after your first tornado.
they’re cultists driven by irrational fears sponfed to them by their cult leaders. in this case “vaccines = woke,” and of course woke is bad. don’t ask them to define “woke,” or “communism” or CRT or any of the other things they passionately hate. fuck, i wouldn’t bet $0.01 that they’d be able to tell you how a tornado is different from a hurricane. they don’t know, they don’t care. all they know is they hate it and are willing to kill their kids over the idea.
yes, it IS fucking ridiculous to put not only your own kids at risk over this stone age bullshit, but everyone else’s kids too. fuck these people
my baby ain’t woke up this morning.
Kids are going to die because of this stupid shit.
And the parents will find a way to dissuade themselves of any blame.
It’s a real tragedy, no one saw it coming. He got sick with measles, I thought those were animals. Then the doctor finds out and they wanna shoot some more science juice up in my baby and I tell him where he can shove it, he ain’t hurting my precious baby. Anyways, I brought him home and he died.
Kids are dying because of this stupid shit*
According to an interview I read, the parents said out of the seven kids they have, only one died. They said it was no big deal.
It’s so weird how the capitalist class can hold such conflating beliefs. Because on the one hand they’re terrified about declining population numbers, while on the other they’re doing everything they can to kill us all.
Gotta look at it like CEOs treat companies, one quarter at a time. A life is potentially more money over the course of decades, saving money not subsidizing vaccinating kids is immediate savings.
That is depressingly accurate.
This whole state is abusive to children.
In Texas, you say
To shreds you say.
Texas just loves killing kids.
Lmfao this is the dumbest timeline
soooooo… less texans…
win win?
Less rural Texans even. That should help its purple status.
