The share of U.S. counties where 95 percent or more of kindergartners were vaccinated against measles — the number doctors say is needed to achieve overall protection for the class, known as “herd immunity” — has dropped from 50 percent before the pandemic to 28 percent, according to The Post’s examination of the public records from 44 states and the District of Columbia.
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America is a nation of idiots.
I partly blame No Child Left Behind. It forced teachers to teach to the test. It really limited teaching critical thinking skills.
That was the plan.
I wish I didn’t have to put this Sagan on speed dial
As an American, which is a shameful thing to be, you are correct.
I’m American and my firm belief is that Americans don’t actually exist, and we’re all coming to realize that now. America is too big with too many huge, fractured cultures. My dream is New England secedes, which will never happen.
America is a nation of skeptics who learn the hard way. Frankly I’m glad America learns at all. Could be historically recidivist like Russia.
Humanity has a 2-3 generation memory.
We’re going to need to be taught this lesson again the hard way.
Sorry kids.
No, this is pretty much a USA problem. The rest of us are just trying our best to weather the torrent of brain rot.
We just had a pandemic 5 years ago…should be fresh in the memory. As an American, this is a US problem and may additionally be happening elsewhere due to US influence.
It’s because of COVID that people have forgotten.
Covid mostly killing old people, and being limited by the lockdowns taught far too many people that they don’t need to worry.
Measles mostly kills babies and toddlers, and without herd immunity those rates of child deaths are going to shoot back up to thousands a year.
Russia is winning.
This is what collapse looks like.
The deaf community will thrive! (The Measles were responsible for ~1/3 of my sisters’ classmates, and their school had to transform into a school for deaf and physically disabled in order to survive the drop of deaf children due to the measle vaccine}
Hey, maybe a combo epidemic will finally hurt the Republican voting dipshits enough to rethink their stance on universal healthcare. I doubt it. If covid was any indication, they might just all die off to spite the libs.
They’ll blame Democrats, Brown Peepulz, and teh Tranz.
As is tradition 🇺🇲
