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posted by chromas on Wednesday March 27 2019, @12:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the vax-papers-please dept.

Emergency Declared in NY over Measles: Unvaccinated Barred from Public Spaces:

Plagued by a tenacious outbreak of measles that began last October, New York's Rockland County declared a state of emergency Tuesday and issued a directive barring unvaccinated children from all public spaces.

Effective at midnight Wednesday, March 27, anyone aged 18 or younger who has not been vaccinated against the measles is prohibited from public spaces in Rockland for 30 days or until they get vaccinated. Public spaces are defined broadly in the directive as any places:

[W]here more than 10 persons are intended to congregate for purposes such as civic, governmental, social, or religious functions, or for recreation or shopping, or for food or drink consumption, or awaiting transportation, or for daycare or educational purposes, or for medical treatment. A place of public assembly shall also include public transportation vehicles, including but not limited to, publicly or privately owned buses or trains...

The directive follows an order from the county last December that barred unvaccinated children from schools that did not reach a minimum of 95 percent vaccination rate. That order—and the directive issued today—are intended to thwart the long-standing outbreak, which has sickened 153 people, mostly children.

What were they waiting for? A pox on them all?


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by VLM on Wednesday March 27 2019, @01:09PM (1 child)

    by VLM (445) on Wednesday March 27 2019, @01:09PM (#820598)

    Oddly enough, the most virulent (LOL pun intended) criticism of anti-vax is in the furthest left areas, Reddit and such, where vax is essentially a religious sacrament to those people, along with "new urbanism" and "bicycle commuting" and "multiculturalism". So being anti-vax is essentially being anti-semitic for all practical purposes on average. Although, sure, in very limited isolated cases "Its the Jews!" might very well be accurate.

    I miss the good old days when anti-vax meant fans of the PDP-10 and TOPS-10 and such. TOPS-10, now that was a fun OS. Everything 70s DEC became what shouldda been for 80s/90s home computer enthusiasts. Why did I have to use friggin Z80s and CP/M when the world already birthed the PDP-8, etc etc?

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  • (Score: 2) by Nobuddy on Thursday March 28 2019, @02:05PM

    by Nobuddy (1626) on Thursday March 28 2019, @02:05PM (#821312)

    Why would you lie about something so easy to prove wrong? Reddit does nothing but ridicule antivaxxers 24x7. Faceboo is where those idiots reside. Nowhere else will tolerate them.