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All right. So, we have much to talk about. I'm going to get right into this one because this happened late last week, but we never got a chance to talk about it. Oh, boy. Have you heard of measles?

Yeah, I have. All right. I think the number in Texas, the measles outbreak that they're having in Texas, the last number I saw was well over 200 people infected with measles.

I think two people have died already from measles.

These are people who are unvaccinated.

There's a Mennonite community in Texas that's anti-vax.

And measles is very contagious. And that's why you want to get your

kids vaccinated with the MMR vaccine so the reason I bring that up is because and this actually

surprised me oh about the MMR vaccine like all vaccines if 95% of the population is vaccinated, herd immunity kicks in.

It's very hard for the virus to travel person to person. So that's why it's a public health issue.

Everyone who can be vaccinated needs to be vaccinated. That was the story with the COVID vaccine.

That's true of the measles vaccine. This is what surprised

me in Texas. Private schools and public schools have to report vaccination rates to the state.

I would have guessed private schools would not have had to do that in Texas. I don't think private

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