In California, the percentage of parents applying a “personal belief exception” to avoid vaccinating their kindergartners quadrupled between 2000 and 2013, and disease transmittal rates among kids soared as a result. Cases of childhood illnesses like whooping cough reached a sixty-year high, while the Disneyland resort was rocked by an outbreak of measles that sickened 147 children. Fighting an infectious army of digital conspiracy theorists, the State of California eventually gave up arguing and passed a law requiring kindergarten vaccinations, which only provided more conspiracy theory
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