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stopdiggin

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21. you mean the bunch that chain smoked cigarettes

Sun Mar 2, 2025, 01:51 PM

Mar 2025

and drank like fish? And occasionally smacked around their 'wimmin' and kids? Tried their level best to keep "those other people' out of their towns and neighborhoods? Knew sex education should definitely be kept out of the schools. And thought their daughter's college ambitions (if they had the 'extra' money in the first place) really ought to center around finding a 'nice doctor' to marry?

Yeah ... I can have a certain amount of respect ... But that doesn't mean I'm taking a lot of advice .... (medical or otherwise)

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Texas official warns against "measles parties" as outbreak keeps growing 20 people have been hospitalized. [View all] FSogol Mar 2025 OP

Official warnings will just ensure that the MAGATs actually have them, then when some of the children die, they'll blame Celerity Mar 2025 #1

Imagine having to be told to not expose your child to a potentially deadly disease. Solly Mack Mar 2025 #2

It wasn't stupid "then". Measles is so contagious that everyone was going to contract it marybourg Mar 2025 #4

How beneficial was it to those who died? Those who became deaf? Encephalitis/convulsion that lead to brain damage? Solly Mack Mar 2025 #6

Young children are at risk. Teens and adults are at greater risk. marybourg Mar 2025 #9

Nothing you've said makes it any less a stupid thing to do. Solly Mack Mar 2025 #12

Well, clearly we are much smarter than the generations marybourg Mar 2025 #13

We actually do know more now about diseases. You get that there is no correlation between winning a war and people Solly Mack Mar 2025 #16

you mean the bunch that chain smoked cigarettes stopdiggin Mar 2025 #21

It was absolutely moronic. Both then and now. stopdiggin Mar 2025 #14

"stupid then - stupid now" sums it up nicely. stopdiggin Mar 2025 #7

Thank you. I get so tired of those memes that go around talking about what kids used to do and can't now. Solly Mack Mar 2025 #10

Because back in the day, that was how parents thought they could stop an epidemic from continuing. haele Mar 2025 #15

I'm not changing what I said. Solly Mack Mar 2025 #18

The "parties" thing only sort of worked for the Chicken Pox. Hugin Mar 2025 #19

My mother did that with my two middle siblings. This was before I was born. When they talked about it Solly Mack Mar 2025 #22

I remember a discussion some of my older relatives had back in the day... Hugin Mar 2025 #27

Oh, don't get me started on people who refuse to vaccinate their children. Solly Mack Mar 2025 #31

I agree with you. haele Mar 2025 #20

They went with what they understood, which wasn't always a lot. Hard to combat "folk" wisdom sometimes. Solly Mack Mar 2025 #23

The problem with that is that by the time someone is sick with measles Mariana Mar 2025 #24

If all the anti-vaxxers die off in the next hundred years, is it still "natural selection" even though drug companies... EarnestPutz Mar 2025 #3

They won't die off. Most people survive these diseases. Mariana Mar 2025 #25

I was thinking more about the upcoming, new-and-improved super-covid. EarnestPutz Mar 2025 #32

From the state that has a soaring maternal death rate and abandoned babies lindysalsagal Mar 2025 #5

Insanity rules these days. ananda Mar 2025 #8

Jesus, how did humans ever become the head of the food chain. republianmushroom Mar 2025 #11

It's worse than they say. Igel Mar 2025 #17

Every time I think it can't possibly get any worse, it does. Initech Mar 2025 #26

Whoa...... Lovie777 Mar 2025 #28

It's like that episode of "South Park" synni Mar 2025 #29

Idiocracy spanone Mar 2025 #30