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‘In Gaines County [Texas], where Seminole is located, the measles-vaccination rate among kindergartners is just 82 percent, well short of the estimated 95 percent threshold for maintaining herd immunity. Even that alarming figure would appear to undersell the local problem. Many children from the county’s Mennonite community, which numbers in the thousands, are unvaccinated, but they won’t get picked up in state tallies, because they are either homeschooled or enrolled in nonaccredited private schools, which are not required to collect such data.’

How clever of us to contain populations about whom we cannot collect any data.

The death of his daughter, Peter told me, was God’s will. God created measles. God allowed the disease to take his daughter’s life. “Everybody has to die,” he said...

The guy is writing Richard Dawkins’ next book for him.

For Peter and his family, the loss of their daughter is a private tragedy, one that would be excruciating no matter how she died. The fact that she died of measles, though, is a sign that something has gone wrong with the country’s approach to public health. Twenty-five years ago, measles was declared “eliminated” in the United States. Now a deadly crisis is unfolding in West Texas.

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Total Praise: Peter forgot the most precious part of God’s creation. God created Peter’s daughter’s measles so that she could become a disease vector and spread it all over west Texas. Praise Him.

Margaret Soltan, March 12, 2025 12:51AM
Posted in: march of science

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