State health officials said Friday in a news release that those who are infected are either unvaccinated or their vaccination status is unknown. Thirteen people have been hospitalized.

The cases have been concentrated in a “close-knit, undervaccinated” Mennonite community, Texas Department of State Health Services spokesperson Lara Anton said. Gaines County is highly rural, so many of the families send their children to small private schools or are homeschooled, Anton said.

“The church isn’t the reason that they’re not vaccinated,” Anton said. “It’s all personal choice and you can do whatever you want. It’s just that the community doesn’t go and get regular health care.”

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    I’m here for it. I felt horrible when all the antimasker antivaxxer freedumb people were dying for nothing during Covid, but I’m all out of fucks to give.

    When they start dying in the millions, I’m gonna be jerkin it on the daily.

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      Why do you think bird flu will only kill people who don’t believe in vaccines? Even if there is a vaccine for it (which I don’t think there is right now), a virus circulating freely due to large numbers of unvaccinated people, antimaskers, etc. will kill all kinds of people, not just the antivax/antimask people. This is what we saw with COVID, and bird flu will be a lot worse.

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      I don’t think you understand how deadly bird flu is. If bird flu reaches pandemic levels we will need burn pits for the bodies

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        That’s why they are hiding the data.

        The rich do not want us plebs anymore. There are way too many of us for their liking. Time to cull the herd.

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          after all the deaths, Black plague did wonders for the working class. They should have just allowed bc and abortions. That’s more humane.

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        JFC, what’s wrong with me? My first thought when reading that was, “Ooh! Maybe then I’ll finally be able to find a job again!”