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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: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @03:09PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @03:09PM (#820683)

    So you can only claim 4% were claimed to be properly vaccinated, not 8%.

    Depends on the age of the child. During the interim the child is "properly" vaccinated. In the future "properly vaccinated" will likely mean three vaccinations btw, as the weaker antibodies begin to wane from the vaccinated generation.

    And you've not defined exactly what population you think is "the" population - I suspect you're chosing an irrelevant population for means of sophistry.

    I am not choosing any population. Where do you see me seem to choose one? They do not share that data with us.

    Your gibbering is so mathemeatically incoherent, I honestly can't work out what actual point you're trying to make.

    Well if you see me "choosing populations" when I did no such thing I can see why you would think it was incoherent. But that problem lies with you making stuff up.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @03:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @03:12PM (#820685)

    typo:

    Well if you see me "choosing populations"? When I did no such thing, I can see why you would think it was incoherent.

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday March 28 2019, @12:17AM (1 child)

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Thursday March 28 2019, @12:17AM (#821061) Homepage
    You did chose a population, as there were clearly 2 possibilities. One was relevant, one was irrelevant, and I'm guessing you chose the irrelevant one.

    Lack of actual response argument, apart from flailing wildly, noted.
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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 28 2019, @12:35AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 28 2019, @12:35AM (#821072)

      No, I really do not know how many students are in these schools who were "exposed". They chose to not tell us that for whatever reason.