Can someone please read this and let me know if it’s worth the time?
I like Bethany McLean from her long-ago Enron book, but the reviews are pretty odd and leave me wondering if I’m just going to hate it.
Also, wtf is this?
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What’s also weird is the book has been out for 3 weeks and there are only 10 reviews.
From CDC data via Your Local Epidemiologist:
Not great! Love to see my state of Ohio sitting at 89% and getting a special shoutout:
This provides large pockets of unvaccinated people—a breeding ground for infectious diseases. Take Ohio, for example, which had the 9th lowest coverage in MMR vaccination last year. It’s no coincidence that there was a measles outbreak last year—85 children got sick, and 36 were hospitalized.
The big question is, how on earth is Mississippi leading the country on this?
Also, it’s becoming more common (2023 relative to 2021) to believe that vaccines cause autism. Cool!
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That is bizarre.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a ranking of states where Mississippi was anything but bottom 10 on any quantitative metric.
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Herd immunity is SOCIALISM!
If I had to guess I’d say it’s more an issue with the record-keeping being garbage because lol Mississippi. Like they have no records for 20% of the child population at all or something, so they just declared them all vaxxed for the purposes of reporting.
The answer is tyrannical government policing of peoples’ private lives. Thankfully, I can report that the people have risen up against this tyranny and in the coming years you will be proud to see Mississippi’s liberation take it to the bottom like on all other similar lists.
There has been no religious exemption for mandatory childhood vaccinations in Mississippi since the law requiring them was passed in 1972. That has now changed due to a lawsuit filed last year by parents who have kept their children out of the state’s public schools due to vaccination requirements. The lawsuit was funded by the Texas-based Informed Consent Action Network, one of the largest anti-vaccination groups in the country.
Calling bullshit on Mississippi somehow having the best vaccination rates.
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Nice to see my home state making the news for…reasons 
What’s interesting about this is how much of an effect the religious exemption has. Somehow Mississippi has virtually no exemptions of any kind (although I agree that this is likely a record-keeping issue):
Look at what happened when California and Maine eliminated religious exemptions:
Would love to return to a world where vaccinations are uncontroversially a very good thing.
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THAT’S SOCIALISM!
West Virginia? Really?
Seems like ancient history, but anti-vaxxers used to be found mainly in the very far left, not the far right. It wasn’t really a right wing thing until covid.
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Yep it all started with yuppy yoga moms convinced vax gave their kids autism.
weren’t religious people also anti vax too pre covid? info war types as well…
Some, but it was, like the Christian Scientists and other pretty small time sects. It wasn’t a major evangelical position before covid.
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I prefer to call it: Self-Accelerating demographic change
Actually Christian scientists are not dogmatic on the issue
Vacillating about vaccination rather than declaring it to be the unambiguous good that it is in all but the nichest of cases is anti-vaxx.
That said, ok, maybe I’m confusing the Christian Scientists with another minor sect, like the 7th Day Adventists, who might be more anti-vaxx. But, if we take that statement as reflective of the Christian Scientists’ position on vaccines pre-covid, that is much more anti-vaxx than the average Christian was then.
Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science said on vaccines: “Rather than quarrel over being vaccinated, I recommend that, if the law demand an individual to submit to this process, he obey the law; and then appeal to the gospel to save him from any bad results.”