Nolt also explained that the Mennonites who live in Seminole, Texas, a city at the center of Gaines County -- a community known as Low German Mennonites, due to the language they speak -- "lived in relative isolation in Mexico from the 1920s to the 1980s."Blackvegetable » Today, 7:38 am » wrote: ↑ It is spreading beyond this community, "unfortunately," Katherine Wells, director of public health for the city of Lubbock -- which is located in western Texas -- told ABC News. "West Texas is where the spread of these cases are right now, and we need to make sure that everybody in West Texas is getting vaccinated and is aware of measles and understands the precautions that we need to take."...
"In many of these areas, vaccination rates are below 90%, well below the 92-94% needed for community or “herd” immunity. That’s what has allowed this outbreak to grow to over 300 cases so quickly. We fear the number of actual cases may be much higher than reported due to confusion and delays in the outbreak response," she said...
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Just two cases have occurred in people fully vaccinated with the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine, according to the data.
"That vakzian ain't no good.!"
"Ervel Jr. - Kin you say "Mah bodee, mah chois!"?
**** morons.
*Huey » Today, 8:47 am » wrote: ↑ Nolt also explained that the Mennonites who live in Seminole, Texas, a city at the center of Gaines County -- a community known as Low German Mennonites, due to the language they speak -- "lived in relative isolation in Mexico from the 1920s to the 1980s."
"They missed out on the mid-century public health immunization campaigns in the U.S., be they polio or smallpox or whatever (the Mexican government had a reputation for not engaging with the Low German Mennonites at all)," he wrote. "Thus, they are starting from a different place than other culturally conservative Mennonites whose ancestors have been here since the 1700s."
Nott went on, "My point is, the so-called Low German Mennonites from Mexico, now in west Texas, don't have that minimum baseline of mid-20th century vaccine acceptance that we see among Old Order Mennonites and Amish in the U.S. because the folks in Seminole missed the whole mid-century immunization push, as they weren't in the U.S. at that time."
You didn't read the article that the citation is from in the OP, did ya?
Yes, I did.*Huey » Today, 9:11 am » wrote: ↑ You didn't read the article that the citation is from in the OP, did ya?
Ok, you read it but didn't understand it.
I read what it said, but I don't get YOUR point...*Huey » Today, 9:18 am » wrote: ↑ Ok, you read it but didn't understand it.
The point moron, is the Mennonites didn't get to that area until the 80s and didn't really experience the vaccine experience that the rest of us and our parents/grandparents did. They came from an isolated area in Mexico.
Acknowledge you were answered
In MN it's the Somalis...*Huey » Today, 8:47 am » wrote: ↑ Nolt also explained that the Mennonites who live in Seminole, Texas, a city at the center of Gaines County -- a community known as Low German Mennonites, due to the language they speak -- "lived in relative isolation in Mexico from the 1920s to the 1980s."
"They missed out on the mid-century public health immunization campaigns in the U.S., be they polio or smallpox or whatever (the Mexican government had a reputation for not engaging with the Low German Mennonites at all)," he wrote. "Thus, they are starting from a different place than other culturally conservative Mennonites whose ancestors have been here since the 1700s."
Nott went on, "My point is, the so-called Low German Mennonites from Mexico, now in west Texas, don't have that minimum baseline of mid-20th century vaccine acceptance that we see among Old Order Mennonites and Amish in the U.S. because the folks in Seminole missed the whole mid-century immunization push, as they weren't in the U.S. at that time."
Blackvegetable » Today, 7:38 am » wrote: ↑ It is spreading beyond this community, "unfortunately," Katherine Wells, director of public health for the city of Lubbock -- which is located in western Texas -- told ABC News. "West Texas is where the spread of these cases are right now, and we need to make sure that everybody in West Texas is getting vaccinated and is aware of measles and understands the precautions that we need to take."...
"In many of these areas, vaccination rates are below 90%, well below the 92-94% needed for community or “herd” immunity. That’s what has allowed this outbreak to grow to over 300 cases so quickly. We fear the number of actual cases may be much higher than reported due to confusion and delays in the outbreak response," she said...
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Just two cases have occurred in people fully vaccinated with the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine, according to the data.
"That vakzian ain't no good.!"
"Ervel Jr. - Kin you say "Mah bodee, mah chois!"?
**** morons.
he's basically stating you're a pinhead, brown...Blackvegetable » Today, 9:35 am » wrote: ↑ I read what it said, but I don't get YOUR point...
Do you have one?
He told you his point, but apparently it is one you are not even close to being smart enough to understand.Blackvegetable » Today, 9:35 am » wrote: ↑ I read what it said, but I don't get YOUR point...
Do you have one?
Blackvegetable » Today, 9:35 am » wrote: ↑ I read what it said, but I don't get YOUR point...
Do you have one?
You can't tell me what it is, but you're here to confirm that he did.ConsRule » Today, 9:49 am » wrote: ↑ He told you his point, but apparently it is one you are not even close to being smart enough to understand.
I haven't seen your point.*Huey » Today, 9:51 am » wrote: ↑ I know there are lemmings like you who don't come here to discuss issues. My point concerns the article and the issue. I posted my point.
Blackvegetable » Today, 10:01 am » wrote: ↑ You can't tell me what it is, but you're here to confirm that he did.
Much obliged.
The vaccine is effective 97 percent of the time.Blackvegetable » Today, 7:38 am » wrote: ↑
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Just two cases have occurred in people fully vaccinated with the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine, according to the data.
I understand it completely. I am surprised that someone who is as educated and credential as you claim to be can't understand it. Maybe when you were bragging about all that it was just another case of you making **** up.Blackvegetable » Today, 10:01 am » wrote: ↑ You can't tell me what it is, but you're here to confirm that he did.
Much obliged.
You STILL haven't told me.ConsRule » Today, 10:06 am » wrote: ↑ I understand it completely. I am surprised that someone who is as educated and credential as you claim to be can't understand it. Maybe when you were bragging about all that it was just another case of you making **** up.