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On Tuesday, nearly 20 percent of the school's 1,067 students were reportedly absent.

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[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 174 points 9 months ago

However, due to the high immunity rate in the community, as well as the burden on families and educational costs of healthy children missing school, [the health department] is deferring to parents or guardians to make decisions about school attendance."

This is fucking bonkers.

We know it's hard on you, so fuck preventing a breakout of the most contagious disease we've encountered, that not only is bad on its own, but resets your immunity fucking you over even more for years to come.

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 43 points 9 months ago

Wait, measles resets your immunity? Your immunity to what? Measles? Everything?

[-] Dakkaface@lemmy.world 126 points 9 months ago

Everything. The adaptations your body has learned to fight other diseases are stored as T-cells. When you need more of that particular kind of thing, your body goes and runs off copies. Measles kills your T-cells, so your body can't copy the old adaptations, only make blank-slate factory-new ones.

[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 64 points 9 months ago

Holy shit. TIL. We should be good if we were vaccinated forever ago when we were kids, right?

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 36 points 9 months ago

TIL we found the factory reset button for the human immune system.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 11 points 9 months ago

If only. You'd think it could potentially fix some auto immune disorders as a side effect, but nope, all negatives.

[-] PlantJam@lemmy.world 44 points 9 months ago

Here's an article that describes the "immunity reset" aspect of measles: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211112-the-people-with-immune-amnesia

[-] APassenger@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

Measovid.

It's how they roll.

[-] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago
[-] tuxtey@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Has you or a loved one been diagnosed with Mesovidlioma?

[-] kromem@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Well yeah, but if it gives you immune amnesia then it's like you were never vaccinated for all the other things too.

It's the antivaxxer's re-virginization.

I wouldn't be surprised if some intentionally infected their kids to try to undo past required vaccinations.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

You can be revirginized once before you become immune to revirginization!

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

It might cost us money, so some of you may die, but that’s a risk we’re willing to take.

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