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In reply to the discussion: Florida is swamped by disease outbreaks as quackery replaces science [View all]slightlv
(3,025 posts)I went thru measles, chickenpox, and about everything else that hit the school. At one point both myself and my brother had the measles and my little sister had whooping cough and something else that turned her face red as a beet. I don't know how my mom lived through us. My sis was only a baby at the time.
Personally, these antivaxxers should be up on child abuse charges afaic. My uncle had rubella as a child and it left him mentally retarded.
I think once a state hits a certain percentage of infections a quarantine should be placed on the state. If they want to go back to the old days of no vaccine, then they should abide by the bad old laws that went with it. But I really have heartburn with these stupid parents. If they want to take a chance of killing their own kids, we can't stop them. But we don't have to let them start a pandemic throughout the rest of the country. Imo