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.”
Ya I posted that mostly because I thought the same as you as was supposed when I looked into it. I assumed they were hardcore anti-all medicine
The root cause isn’t even the austism hoax. Obviously that was something they latched on to as a rallying cry, but that’s kind of like saying that people become conservatives because they oppose wasteful government spending. It’s actually the other way around - they have some unfulfilled psychological or emotional need, and they construct a set of selected facts and lies to fill that need.
With the rich yoga moms, the need is to feel special and exclusive. The psychological profile here is someone with lots of money but no self actualization, so no meaningful sense of fulfillment. But when you have lots and lots of money, a way to create the illusion that your money actually means something about your self worth is to live in a sustained fiction where very expensive things have some mystical power to them that is reserved for rich people. This is how you get rich women in $600 yoga pants buying $50 “cleanse” smoothies while opposing vaccines, insisting that what they are doing is for “wellness”. If vaccines were $1,000 a pop and poor people weren’t allowed to have them, then these same people wouldn’t oppose them. There would be vaccine spas all over LA and you’d get your vaccine with a massage and some aromatherapy.
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Yep, its the same as every single conspiracy theorist. I am a very special boy who can see things others can not because I am so special. Give me a cookie and tell me how special I am, becauss I figured out the queen of England is a lizard and nobody else knows or believes me.
You know that tragedy that everyone experienced and went through? Well IIIIIII know the real truth because I am a super cool snowflake. Only the top scientists like these guys, and myself, can tell you airplane fuel can’t melt steel beams. I am very smart.
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