Spartanburg County in South Carolina is ground zero for the largest measles outbreak since 2000. One school has a vaccination rate of 21 percent.

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    6 hours ago

    “Why would I give my kid a dead version of a disease?!”

    So their immune system can handle the real thing Karen…

    Antivaxxers never understood that we do run into this shit, and get infected by it.

    With a vaccine we often just don’t notice. Without one, kids die or face lifelong complications.

    Either way, they still get that “natural immunity” later.

    Not vaxxing your kids is like sending a 12 year old to play offensive tackle in the super bowl. Sure, the tough ones might live, but they’re all getting injured. And even the ones who make it would have done better in their 20s with a decade of experience.

    The vaccine is that experience and conditioning.

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        6 hours ago

        No evolution happens constantly no matter what.

        Whether that results in beneficial or even noticable change is another thing, but it happens literally ever generation no matter what.

        And while some aspects of IQ seem to be inheritable, it’s not like most people assume.