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riversedge

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1. Whooping cough is PREVENTABLE with a vaccine. Folks put their kids and other kids at

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 06:15 PM

Sep 30

risk. Sure, they have the pleasure of not vaccinating --because they can just say NO,
Yet, they put their neighbor kids and kids at school at risk for the PREVENTABLE DISEASE.

DAME THESE SELFISH FOLKS MAKE ME SICK!

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Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough, the State's First Pertussis Death in 13 Years [View all] highplainsdem Sep 30 OP

Whooping cough is PREVENTABLE with a vaccine. Folks put their kids and other kids at riversedge Sep 30 #1

+1 SheltieLover Sep 30 #2

I just knew this was going to be connected to vaccine denialism, even thought the baby was too young to be ... eppur_se_muova Sep 30 #3

The denialism seems to be widespread: ClaudetteCC Sep 30 #6

Interesting story progressoid Sep 30 #9

RFKjr is thrilled. His plan is working. Irish_Dem Sep 30 #4

The first domino falls. BidenRocks Sep 30 #5

Heckuva job, Bobby 0rganism Sep 30 #7

We need more of a memory of what diseases like this were like. ananda Sep 30 #8

This is what whooping cough looks and sounds like. 3catwoman3 Sep 30 #10

My grandmother had whooping cough as a child - in the early 1900s Rhiannon12866 Sep 30 #11

Unacceptable ck4829 Oct 1 #12

RFK!!! This is just the first of many to come PortTack Oct 1 #13

That's why we have to give the DTaP vaccine to young kids IronLionZion Oct 1 #14