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posted by mrpg on Thursday February 28 2019, @04:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the Brawndo-Has-What-Plants-Crave dept.

Texas lawmaker says he's not worried about measles outbreak because of ‘antibiotics'

Texas state representative Bill Zedler says a resurgence of measles across the U.S. isn't worrying him.

Zedler, R-Arlington, is promoting legislation that would allow Texans to opt out of childhood vaccinations.

“They want to say people are dying of measles. Yeah, in Third World countries they’re dying of measles,” Zedler said, the Texas Observer reports. “Today, with antibiotics and that kind of stuff, they’re not dying in America.”

There is no treatment for measles, a highly contagious virus that can be fatal. Antibiotics treat bacterial infections and can't kill viruses.

It could be funny if it weren't so tragic.


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @05:22AM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @05:22AM (#807983)

    Maaaaybe, but with the advent of the telecommunications there is very little excuse for a lot of the bullshit. We've progressed technologically to a pretty high level yet we can't solve some of the most basic problems, like garbage. If we're not careful our great-grandchildren may have to have neighborhood rescue teams to get people out of garbage ambulanches.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @09:26AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @09:26AM (#808035)

    Ambulanches???

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday February 28 2019, @11:48AM (2 children)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday February 28 2019, @11:48AM (#808059) Homepage Journal

      Is that like an avalanche of ambulances? I think I'd prefer snow.

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      • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday February 28 2019, @12:22PM (1 child)

        by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Thursday February 28 2019, @12:22PM (#808071) Homepage
        If you ambulaunch them into the air, they could rain down like snow, I guess.
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        • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday February 28 2019, @04:00PM

          by Freeman (732) on Thursday February 28 2019, @04:00PM (#808167) Journal

          No matter the delivery method, it'd hurt a lot more to get hit by an ambulance than a snow flake.

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          Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @03:35PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @03:35PM (#808152)

      I see we have uncultured swine around here. Check out Idiocracy ,)

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @10:35PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @10:35PM (#808413)

        Thanks for the reference. Is there a youtube clip you can post?