• Hegar
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        A less intentionally broken education system would reduce the scale of the harm done.

        • @[email protected]
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          71 day ago

          It isn’t the education system. American culture celebrates a proud level of ignorance. I see it here all the time.

          • Hegar
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            I suspect that’s an effect of the under-education of our country. A more functional education system would probably produce fewer proudly ignorant people.

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              Nah I grew up rich. My public school was ranked among the top ten in the nation at the time. It still produced a lot of dummies that have great jobs in finance and business.

              It isn’t under education. It is the cultural celebration of individualism in the face of the advice from the relevant academic sectors that is an issue. I know too many people here who will agree with the phrase “The experts don’t know what they are talking about” while overlooking the fact that they lack the education or experience to make that call.

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          51 day ago

          Stiff penalties for not vaccinating, and a local and state government less corrupt that is able to provide enforcement and better assistance.

          I don’t get the education angle here, the anti vaccination parents can’t be fixed like that, and many of them were not educated in the state ; but they can be made to follow health codes.

          That said, Texas needs better education system. But this another issue entirely

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            51 day ago

            We need to stop letting people refuse to vaccinate purely on philosophical grounds. If you claim a religious reason for not getting vaccinated then your group better officially have that position. In my home state, New Jersey, most who refuse to vaccinate are not part of a faith that bans vaccinations.

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              51 day ago

              I like having no exemptions except medical due to other health conditions . It used to be this way in most places until the generations who suffered the diseases moved on

              Large religious communities who hate vaccinations, will only respond to large fines against the parents.

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                21 day ago

                The religious part should be very specifically focused on groups that literally have a blanket opposition to vaccines that is previously well documented. In NJ it is largely ultra orthodox Jewish families, whose sects tend to not oppose vaccines, and parents with philosophical objections that avoid vaccination.

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                  21 day ago

                  And the religious community in Texas that is ground zero to this outbreak? I bet they have generations of documented “insights” and prayer. These go deep, and are not just a fly by night community, and there are many of these.

                  Vaccinations for all I think. These fuckers travel