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Dennis Donovan

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Fri Feb 14, 2025, 06:00 PM Feb 14

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD: TX outbreak shows what happens when exemptions to vax requirements are handed out like candy.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
‪@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social‬
There is really only one thing standing between your community and outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, and that thing is childhood vaccine requirements for school entry. The Texas outbreak clearly shows what happens when exemptions to vaccine requirements are handed out like candy.
February 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM


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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD: TX outbreak shows what happens when exemptions to vax requirements are handed out like candy. (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Feb 14 OP
As far as I'm concerned kids that die from lack of immunization due to... yourout Feb 14 #1
And parents too, since they are responsible in the end for their children's health (manslaughter that is). SWBTATTReg Feb 14 #2

yourout

(8,342 posts)
1. As far as I'm concerned kids that die from lack of immunization due to...
Fri Feb 14, 2025, 06:03 PM
Feb 14

Conspiracy theorists spreading that nonsense have been murdered and at a minimum someone should be charged with manslaughter because those kids would likely be alive if they would have been vaccinated.

SWBTATTReg

(25,068 posts)
2. And parents too, since they are responsible in the end for their children's health (manslaughter that is).
Fri Feb 14, 2025, 06:08 PM
Feb 14
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