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In reply to the discussion: "the big sort" Americans are fleeing to places where political views match their own [View all]Celerity
(43,305 posts)2. This section is beyond maddening:
Karen Bates, a 52-year-old mortgage executive, moved to the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area with her family last year from Puerto Rico. She says the island's government was going to force her teenaged daughter, who has Type 1 diabetes, to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. She now attends a Christian school.
"She's not had to wear a mask," Bates says. "She doesn't have to get vaccinated. She's thriving on the tennis team, making straight A's. I love the freedom of [vaccine] choice in Texas."
"She's not had to wear a mask," Bates says. "She doesn't have to get vaccinated. She's thriving on the tennis team, making straight A's. I love the freedom of [vaccine] choice in Texas."
Diabetes is one the most correlated COVID force-multiplying comorbidities out there. If BA.2 (and there are if's here) is truly as (or even more) lethal in terms of infection mortality rate as the other most lethal variants, and if it also is as (or more) transmissible as origin strain Omicron, then that family has a somewhat decent chance of having a teenage funeral in their future.
What the fuck is wrong with these shitehawks?
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"the big sort" Americans are fleeing to places where political views match their own [View all]
Demovictory9
Feb 2022
OP
So, you don't want to move to a "Red" Country but you want a "Red" policy of lower taxes?
brooklynite
Feb 2022
#49
RE Texas...Liberals are moving there as well...it's purple now, thus the draconian Election laws
ashredux
Feb 2022
#12
It's become a running joke here in TN that so many folks from California are moving here
Docreed2003
Feb 2022
#17
its almost as if Rightwingers expect red areas to be utopias. and some of the "sorting" in 80s/90s
Demovictory9
Feb 2022
#22
Repubs: "we don't have to wear masks!" Dems: "they put broken glass in our mailbox"
muriel_volestrangler
Feb 2022
#26