I had measles as a kid in the 80s, either before I was old enough for the vax or a breakthrough case, unclear which as idk the recommended schedules from the 80s. I was in the hospital for weeks. I take vaccination very seriously, get every single one I can, and was quite pleased to have gotten all my childhood vaccinations a second time as an adult, just to be absolutely sure (my records went missing and it was required for my job).
Zero sympathy.
For the parents. I feel bad for the kids.
At what point should other countries ban travel from the US?
November 6th, 2024
I mean, you can, but the cases in the US were imported from elsewhere: the ones in the Northeast are generally from heavily Orthodox Jews traveling to or from Israel; the cases in the southwest started among the Mennonite community and was imported from Mennonites in Mexico. Unfortunately, vaccine resistance is pretty high among both groups.
The better way to handle it would be to require that travelers to your country have been vaccinated, and that refugees and asylum seekers are kept in quarantine and given vaccinations before they're paroled to the general public. There'll still be people who slip through the cracks - immigrants who manage to avoid processing, people traveling on small boats or small planes, etc - but it would be a start. Unfortunately, I don't know how well that plays with all the various "free travel" rules.
If only there was some way to protect yourself. /s
RFK Jr. and all the antivaxxers need a Nuremberg-style trial...
i thought the thumbnail was Trevor from wkuk at first...
Where's Dr. Kyle when you need him, right?
Isn't measles considered bad because it's INSANELY contagious? Like covid made immunologisys freak out because the infection rate was over 2? Measles is like 12 or 18.
Lingers in the air for hours too... Good luck american morons and their neighbours...
I had measles as a kid, I wasn't vaccinated, i remember it as if it were yesterday, it was so traumatic, i genuinely thought I was going to die, I genuinely felt my mortality, at like 7 or 8yo. the pain was more than I could cope with. My mother was (and still is) an antivaxer. As deranged (and narc) as they come. I got my kids vaccinated. It's ripping my heart out, knowing what these kids are, entirely unnecessarily, being put through.
I don't want to pull on any strings that are too painful or nothing but ... did you tell your mom that you vaccinated your kids? if you did, how did she handle it?
If anyone in a large room or house has measles, everyone will get it.
1 in 100 will get the virus in their brains leading to permanent brain damage or blindness.
Even europeans, asians, will have to be more careful the next tens of years, thanks to some deranged conspiratists.
A closed room with a internal vents system like a mall or a school can have measles issues for weeks after a few case. It was ione of the worst virus of the past for a reason.
makes me glad my wife's classroom has external vents
A society that doesn't know how to pass common knowledge from generation to generation is doomed.
NO SHIT ITS NOT A MILD INFECTION.
The entire world came together to eradicate a disease that we knew could not only debilitate but kill.
We spent years to formulate a preventative treatment that allows our bodies to survive infections, but some looneytunes sounding twat decides that vaccines are the devil and now that very same disease has open and unprotected vectors to be spread through.
I fucking wonder why there was such a concerted effort to create a :: checks my notes:: fucking vaccine!!!
Antivax parents are the worst kind of stupid - well intentioned stupid. And children are paying the price. Some of those parents even refuse to change their stance because the cognitive dissonance of admitting they were wrong about their beliefs is worse to them than the knowledge that they tortured and possibly killed their and others' children. These people need to be committed.
Edit, typo
Weaponized stupidity.
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