Summary
A measles outbreak in rural West Texas has surged to 49 confirmed cases, mostly among unvaccinated school-age children, with officials suspecting hundreds more unreported infections.
The outbreak is centered in Gaines County, home to a large Mennonite population with low vaccination rates. Despite CDC support, Texas has not requested federal intervention.
The outbreak has now spread to Lubbock, raising wider public health concerns.
Experts warn it could persist for months without increased vaccination efforts, but skepticism toward vaccines remains a significant barrier.
How bad are the measles, really? Asking because I was born in the 1st fucking world and never met anyone under a 100 that met someone with it.
Kills around 3/1000 in the US, BUT
Measles is a leading cause of vaccine-preventable childhood mortality.
“In the US, 20 percent of people with measles are typically hospitalized. Five percent develop pneumonia, and up to 3 in 1,000 die of the infection. In rare cases, measles can cause a fatal disease of the central nervous system called Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, which develops years after infection. Measles also wipes out immune responses to other infections (a phenomenon known as immune amnesia), making people vulnerable to other infectious diseases.”
Compared to a lot of terrible shit, less bad? But still bad. You’d have to be young or old to die from it with modern medicine.
modern medicine.
So with RFK we’re doomed.
modern medicine.
Like vaccines!
Sorry, we can’t talk about illegal drugs.
Isn’t the measles the one where you can live with modern medicine, but you’re still likely to be disfigured possibly even paralyzed in some manner? Or is that the mumps I’m thinking of?
Are you thinking of polio?
If you JUST get measles, you should be fine. The issue is the potential for immune amnesia - meaning the potential for opportunistic infection is incredibly high, as is the potential for that infection to become serious.
If there is a bed available at the hospital, and you can afford the extra expense.
REALLY fucking bad
I hope some day we can invent some sort of treatment that could prevent kids from ever getting this disease.
Like why don’t they just make something that makes the disease not hurt us and then put it in our bodies… Why do they have to have all this lab processed shit that they don’t actually know what it does and try to put it in our bodies…
You know what’s interesting is that the first real anti-vaxxers started because old vaccines would use pus from an infected cow. Something about it being unholy worship of cow or some nonsense.
Now the anti-vaxx crowd is all crying about synthetics… Can’t make anyone happy.
The truly OG anti-vaxxers had some among them that thought it was against their god’s will to combat disease, if you can fucking believe it (people are stupid and horrible, it turns out):
https://newrepublic.com/article/121000/puritanical-roots-anti-vaxxer-movement-go-back-300-years
To treat small pox was seen as a form of blasphemy—a moral evil that refused to recognize that epidemics were acts of God.
I just don’t understand how such a “god” could be worthy of worship, then. Imagine losing 9 children before they reached adulthood. I’d flip this “god” of theirs the bird, and try the cure, thankyouveryfuckingmuch.
Well puss is gross man…
I had this idea, like what if we used our own cells to make some of the identifying surface proteins of viruses and stuff, and use that to train our immune system on what to look for. We wouldn’t even need to cultivate the pathogen itself at all.
Your using big words… You must be one of them folks we have to stab with our pitchforks… Get the hell out of here
Anti-vax adults should not have children.
Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.
“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.
“I feel all sleepy,” she said.
In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.
Roald Dahl, pleading with people to vaccinate their children against measles.
And much like a novel of his works, a bunch of kids are going to have to die for us to figure this out.
According to the doctors from the DoYourOwnResearch University - like donvict, Joe Rogan, and Brainworms - it’s probably because she didn’t eat properly, get enough sunshine, and work out. Maybe a dose of HCQ or horse dewormer to top it off and she’s be in top-top shape. And getting those chakras aligned…
Obviously, /s
Anti-vaxxers and the bullshit artists calling themselves “skeptics” (they are NOT FUCKING SKEPTICS, by the way - the abuse of that term is maddening) drive me crazy. They can all go fuck themselves. They are fine with killing people, even children, rather than admit they have no fucking clue what they are talking about. It’s all about them and their goddamn ego.
Lost my uncle at the height of covid because he wouldn’t get vaccinated, apparently because he thought it was population control not sure how many more kids he was going to have at 70 but there we go. He basically spent too long on nonsense Facebook pages and the inevitable happened, all because some random people online convinced him and they will never be held to account.
lol Texas.
Hey, trump says drinking rat feces smoothies will help with that.
My God. If only there was some sort of preventative measure they could have taken!
Well, their god is maybe the problem:
https://newrepublic.com/article/121000/puritanical-roots-anti-vaxxer-movement-go-back-300-years
The anti-vaccine movement today is not solely religious in character, but much of its rhetoric is identical to theological arguments made against inoculation more than three hundred years ago. As the Florida-based organization KNOW (“Kids Need Options Without Vaccines”), puts it, “All vaccines are made in violation of God’s Word.” Such thinking is partly responsible for the worst measles epidemic in twenty years.
If you think your god wants you and/or your kids to die from preventable diseases, maybe it’s time for a new one?
remember who did this. it’s not over.
Hahaha, that is really funny. People in red states dieing because of a disease we wiped out almost entirely. I really gotta open a “child coffin” plant in Texas.
“It’s not that they’re not educated. It’s just
what their belief isthey’re complete idiots.”FTFY
It stops when all the unvaxxed kids die
Keep refusing vaccines, dummies
MOSTLY unvaccinated? How many vaccinated people got the measles?
Might have to start building walls around the areas where idiots are giving each other preventable diseases.
