This year’s spikes in measles cases could cause the U.S. to lose its “elimination status” by next year after the CDC reports nearly 2,000 cases and 50 outbreaks nationwide.
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The President we needed.
The pilot we got.
It’s easy to blame the immediate source, the voters. Let’s not stop there but dig into the system that was developed decades ago to create such a voting pool. That was the core mission of the Southern Strategy. It’s like blaming a misbehaving kid alone, and ignoring their terrible parents who home schooled and spoon-fed them everything they know. GIGO
It’s entirely unsurprising, considering people voted for a person who said they were going to put an antivaxer in charge of stopping communicable disease.
It would be a net positive for society if rfk died of measles.
To be completely fair this measles issue started well before this current administration
He’s been. Spreading vaccine misinformation for years
The anti-vaccine nonprofit Children’s Health Defense has spent years railing against a federal public health apparatus it says is foisting unsafe shots upon American youths after having lied to the country about the Covid-19 pandemic.
Now, the group’s most famous former leader and its founder, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is on the inside. It’s the “moment of truth” — the name the group has given its third conference this weekend in Austin, Texas — for the power of what was once seen as a fringe movement.
A stark example of the devastating impact of vaccine misinformation is Samoa’s 2019 measles outbreak. In this island nation of 200 000, more than 5700 people were infected and 83 people died, most of whom were young children. Samoa’s Ministry of Health cited Kennedy’s visit and his rhetoric as exacerbating vaccine hesitancy vaccine hesitancy at a crucial moment.
Oh, during the first trump term? That’s when I first heard about it.
To be completely fair, rising rates of measles prior to 2024 or even 2016 and the general increase in antivaxer sentiment for decades has nothing to do with rfks death by measles being a win for society.
When the Trump regime is toppled and the criminals who participated in it are tried Nuremberg-stylee, two mass murderers in particular will get their comeuppance: Elon Musk and RFK Jr.
Doctors I trust more than JFK Jr., Doctor Oz, or Doctor Phil.
Doc Brown
Doc Hollywood
Doctor Demento
Doctor Detroit
Doctor Dolittle
Doctor Doom
Doctor Evil
Doctor Feelgood
Doctor Frankenstein
Doctor Hannibal Lecter
Doctor Jekyll
Doctor Leonard H. “Bones” McCoy
Doctor Martens
Doctor Otto Octavius
Doctor Pepper
Doctor Scholl’s
Doctor Seuss
Doctor Spaceman
Doctor Spock
Doctor Strange
Doctor Who
Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zoidberg
Don’t forget
Doctor Moreau
Doctor Nick
Doctor Horrible
And Doctor Orin Scrivello
And Dr Enuf here in East TN
I can’t believe I forgot Dr. Moreau. I’m adding all these to my list. THANKS!
Don’t forget Taco himself, since that piece of shit has already killed quite a few during his first failed term.
Let’s fucking hope so
FYI, for those of you who happen to have been born in the mid 1960s… the measles vaccine you received may have been relatively useless, so you might out to either get your antibodies tested or just get a new mmr vaccine now…
The USA, technically, eliminated measles about 20 years ago. They will likely lose the elimination status next year thanks to anti-vac stupidity.
They’re not the only ones. Canada has already lost elimination status this year.
Elimination status ends when an outbreak lasts 12 months or longer.
But we’re FREE.
Cool let’s bring back the plague next.
