If we've got more than 1000 cases before school starts, we're in trouble

Measles is just the flu and isn't fatal in 99.9% of cases. Stop moaning, libtard. Take some vitamin D, lift weights and stop eating junk food. The human body is designed to fight off infection. We don't need medication or your fake science lol.

Try again.

Sure, if you don't mind losing 1 in a 1000 children, I can see how it wouldn't bother you.

Dude. It's called bantz omg. Omg Americans lol. Look, we still love you, okay. But man, stop ruining our jokes, dammit. What is it with you folks and irony/sarcasm and deadpan humor, etc? Like srsly? Do we have to announce every silly joke with a trumpet or sth lol?

When you sarcastically say the same words that 5 or 10 people on this stream would say completely straight-faced, how do you expect your sarcasm to be detected?
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Dude. It's supposed to be obvious lol. You say something deadpan that's clearly ridiculous to any sensible person and your interlocutor works out you're talking bullshit from the content, not from the tone, and laughs (or groans). If I announce the joke it's no longer funny and becomes lame and pointless.

Is that not even a thing in the US lol. Do I have to spell out everything? How does your humor even work lol? You want me to slip on a banana skin or sth? Or add an /s tag to everything I write just in case it offends someone? Can't USians read between the lines at all? Talk about a cultural difference. We speak the same language, but we might as well be from different planets lol.

The Germans and Scandinavians get it btw. The Aussies get it no problem. The French get it ofc but don't laugh cos they think we're idiots lol. The Polish and Russians are usually cool (they like their dark humor, I guess). Tbf the Spanish also don't get it half the time either (don't do irony), so you can join them. But man, is humor really this hard to translate across cultures?

Sarcasm is a thing here, thank you very much, but in an environment where many other people are saying the sort of "clearly ridiculous" things you are saying, but meaning them, your sarcasm doesn't land. It just sounds like another idiot saying clearly ridiculous things.

Consider the context, indeed. "Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest." People are saying all those ridiculous things, and meaning them, and you'll have to try harder not to sound exactly like them.

Okay, fair enough. In this place where so many people confidently spout unhinged nonsense non-stop that can be debunked by a 5-second Google search, I'll admit subtle comments might be hard to get, so I'll let you off.

Anyway, I was taking the piss. Just so we're clear. I believe in Measles vaccines (which I had as a kid) and don't have time for any of this anti-vaxxer anti-science nonsense. People can get Polio and be disabled for life if they want. (I know elderly people who grew up before Polio vaxxes were a thing and are now literally permanently disabled in wheelchairs because of Polio, but you do you, Trump club. Ignore the experts and believe some populist multi-millionaire who knows nothing about science.) Or die of TB, Diphtheria, Mumps, Rotavirus, or even Covid that very nearly killed very healthy people I know in their 30s (and did actually kill the otherwise healthy parents of other people I know in their 60s) or any number of diseases modern medicine has found cures and treatment for.

That's the beauty of freedom. People are free to die or be permanently disabled if they want. And believe the Moon landings were a hoax and the Queen was a lizard, and the Covid vax inserts a 5G chip that controls your brain and Bill Gates is trying to kill billions of people. Whatever. I can't even keep track of the conspiracy theories any more.

They can believe what they want, and hold whatever views they like I disagree with. Just ideally don't vote. Believe what you want, people. I don't really care. As long as it doesn't affect me.

We're probably on the same page tbf. I just have a weirder SOH than you lol.

Seriously doubt that you have a weirder SOH; I just have a well-developed inner editor (an occupational hazard).

Trust me: my SOH is pretty f**ked up. (Why else would I be wasting time on this place instead of just making silly memes?) We'll have to take this outside lol. See you at dawn, boyo. Don't forget your gauntlets.

Water pistols at dawn?

You're on. Prepare to get soaked lol.

Do you blame the government or the parents?

Honestly, I blame the ridiculous purveyors of debunked antivax nonsense, and more generally anti-science nonsense. But now our government has given one of them a megaphone, and the power to shape health policy, so yes, the Trump administration will have some children's permanent disabilities and death on its hands.

Nope, it’s still the parents that are responsible for the kids welfare and health. Not the government, not the press, the parents, plain and simple.

How can parents make good decisions for their families if we deny them good information, and, as Steve Bannon aimed to do, "Flood the space with *#$%"?

No one is denying them good information. That’s just fear mongering by the moron party of donkeys

You mean the good information that was conveniently absent of what was in the food parents were feeding their children and themselves? Like the red dye that the majority of countries banned for some good reasons except for the US.

Heh. Granola-type parents like me haven't fed that stuff much to their kids since the seventies. You could also mention the tremendous mess of the meat and dairy industries while you're at it -- Trump's anti-immigrant efforts are only going to make those worse.

Always have been

Living in fear....must be quite the life.....

Better not go to Japan then lol. Wearing masks is totally normal there. If you have a cold, it's polite not to spread it to everyone in the office every time you cough. That's called being considerate.

But in the "West", it's "tyranny" and a globalist takeover (and the Great Replacement/Bill Gates/George Soros/5G/God only knows what).

It's literally a normal part of daily life in SE Asia and has been for years. People wear masks every day and no one gives a shit. And no one moans about it and thinks the world is ending or that they're being oppressed by a tyrannical government or there's some Great Conspiracy lol. Has it ever occurred to you that maybe, just maybe, it's you that are the actual hysterical snowflakes... ? 🤔