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Re:Tennessee DoH halts all vaccine outreach to kids – not ju... by rayiner on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @11:56PM (#27829556)
> In the end, the best thing we can do is to insulate ourselves and our loved ones from government intervention, focus on local politics, and take control of our own consumption i.e. we can't rely on the government to do what's best for our children.

We feel that way too! So why don't you leave us alone? (If you hadn't noticed its not 1992 and nobody is trying to teach your kids abstinence-only education anymore.)

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Re:Tennessee DoH halts all vaccine outreach to kids – not ju... by nieve on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @01:05AM (#27829896)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/conservatives-prop...

In fact there are still places teaching abstinence-only education and I'm pretty sure that trying to keep the existence of LGBTQ people from being mentioned is not a huge step forward.

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Re:Tennessee DoH halts all vaccine outreach to kids – not ju... by rayiner on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @02:34AM (#27830307)
Except the places that still teach that want abstinence-only education. That’s my point—the localism proposed by the grandparent poster is a good idea, but it requires everyone to chill out about how other communities choose to teach their kids. Everyone would be a lot happier if they weren’t having to look over their shoulder all the time wondering what the other side would try to foist in their kids. Having been in the receiving end of that in the 1990s I would have expected urban folks to understand that.
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Re:Tennessee DoH halts all vaccine outreach to kids – not ju... by dvdhnt on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @01:30AM (#27830009)
> We feel that way too! So why don't you leave us alone?

Sorry, I don’t understand. Who is “we” and “you” in this scenario and what are “we” doing to bother “you”?

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Re:Tennessee DoH halts all vaccine outreach to kids – not ju... by macmccann on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @12:34AM (#27829759)
In suburban Ohio public school, I was taught abstinence-only education in 2013. Could have changed since then though
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Re:Tennessee DoH halts all vaccine outreach to kids – not ju... by rayiner on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @02:29AM (#27830283)
> You made a similar bad-faith false-equalivance elsewhere in this thread.

What’s up with people throwing “bad faith” around lately? Did some sort of memo go around?

> Forgive my language, but what utter crap. It's a vaccine against a deadly and contagious virus.

I’m not talking about vaccines. The person I was responding to made a more general point about rural areas versus urban areas and localism. I was agreeing with him.

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