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....I can't help it if you do not want to believe the facts, which are counter to your position, as demonstrated in the material I have referred you to. Illegal immigrants are not the cause of measles outbreaks in the US.
You have not proven any of this or presented any fact that disproves what I've said.
If you wish to try again, then please do so, but all that I've seen you do is make very long cut and paste posts and line by line out of context rebuttal post that do everything but address the points made.
Exactly, Jo. Just over 100 cases of measles (0 deaths) is not a pandemic and does not warrant the type of over reaction that we have been seeing from the extreme pro-vaxxers.. The reaction is way out of proportion to this "outbreak".
"extreme pro-vaxxers" = insult to anyone who disagrees with you. A logical argument does not require this sort of tactic.
You don't wait until a pandemic occurs before taking measures. You do everything you can to prevent it.
Not to mention the fact that laws are not always ethical.
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Yes.
A reasonable point. As a citizen of the state I am willing to allow each other citizen an opinion on which laws are "ethical" and "unethical". I am not willing to allow each citizen to decide which laws they do not wish to obey. Anyone ought to be able to realize that if all of us could choose which laws we wanted to obey it would lead to anarchy.
Your job as a citizen is to persuade your state legislature to repeal or change laws you disagree with.
You have not proven any of this or presented any fact that disproves what I've said.
If you wish to try again, then please do so, but all that I've seen you do is make very long cut and paste posts and line by line out of context rebuttal post that do everything but address the points made.
I have provided ample evidence that measles is not being imported into the US by illegal immigrants. Can you give me an example of a single confirmed outbreak of measles in the US being started by an illegal immigrant? When did it happen? Where?
Anything that can be transmitted by mosquitoes is probably already here. West Nile didn't come up from the south, but dengue fever is making inroads into the US from the Key Islands and I've heard even malaria may make a comeback. Malaria was once pretty common in northern cities like Boston and Philadelphia.
Dengue fever: There was a 122-person outbreak in Hawaii in 2001, the first time the virus had been seen in the islands since 1944. There were 25 cases in Brownsville, Texas, in 2005 and 90 cases in Key West between 2009 and 2010.
Are there illegal immigrants in Hawaii?
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