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More than 150 unvaccinated students in South Carolina are sitting at home right now because of a measles outbreak. Public schools in Spartanburg County sent them home to quarantine after exposure. Measles. The disease we supposedly eradicated before Friends went off the air.

The Department of Health confirmed at least 11 cases statewide this year, eight since September. That’s a Van Halen comeback tour. Measles spreads through the air and hangs around long enough to infect someone who walks in two hours later. It can damage lungs, hearing, and cognition. It can kill.

But sure, let’s keep pretending “personal choice” is sacred when it ends up in the ICU, just like asking people at the resort to only swim in the area of the pool where the diarrhea isn’t.

Parents who skip vaccines call it freedom. I call it gambling with borrowed chips. Schools become collateral. The community pays the price. Kids too young to vaccinate or too sick to respond get caught in the fallout. The state has quarantine laws for a reason. It’s not tyranny. It’s math.

When vaccination rates drop below 95 percent, herd immunity collapses. South Carolina sits closer to 92.7. Fun on a bun.

The story isn’t about fear of needles. It’s about the collapse of trust.

Decades of disinformation turned science into a belief system. Parents started treating experts like politicians. Public health departments got gutted. The CDC lost credibility. TikTok and RFK filled the vacuum. Now local officials beg for compliance while conspiracy peddlers get paid in clicks.

We keep treating measles like a history lesson. It’s a warning. And we’re ignoring it again.

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SOURCE ➡️ https://abcnews.go.com/US/150-unvaccinated-students-south-carolina-quarantining-after-measles/story?id=126459506