Summary
Texas is grappling with a 90-case measles outbreak across seven counties, centered in Gaines County with low vaccination rates.
Another nine cases have cropped up in nearby Lea County, New Mexico, though no direct connection has been established.
Most cases are unvaccinated children under 18. Measles, among the most contagious viruses, can lead to high fevers, rash, pneumonia, and even fatalities.
Officials warn the outbreak could grow as vaccine-preventable coverage remains low.
Anti vax parents should be charged with crimes of: child neglect, child abuse.
Sadly, nothing happens until the child ends up in the morgue.
Pure speculation on my part, but I would guess that parents who don’t vaccinate their children tend to operate in the same social circles, meaning their children are more likely to spend time together. This will only exacerbate the problem.
…tend to
operate in the same social circlesgo to the same church…It’s not just church that pushes anti-vaxx behavior, though. You’ve got new-age anti vaxxers as well. I’m not saying there’s no overlap, but it’s not exclusive to fundamental Christians.
The commonality is extolling faith as a virtue. That is the violence that is being done to society that is nearly universal to all religious people. If society encouraged people to believe in things only to the same extent that they have evidence for them, this would be a very different world.
it’s Texas
unvaxxed fucked around and are finding out. i feel for the kids. i do not feel sorry for the parents being forced to watch their children suffer for their choice.
Play stupid games, get measles ya dumbfucks.
Ah, they’ll just use some tincture from some charlatan and give the pseudo medicine folks even more money
There were many cases, where radicale people let their children or partners suffer, because of their own stupid beliefs.
Measles is so hot right now. No serious, the fever it causes can be deadly. Vaccinate your fucking self and children.
No need to worry, RFK will…
Actually, we probably should be worried.
RFK thinks using any mental health medication is an addiction and he wants to put addicts in slave labor farms for years to cure them with faith in christian god. At this point I wonder if the vaccines will even be the worst part.
16 out of 90 or 99 cases is a pretty high hospitalisation rate. I’m guessing they’ve missed a number of cases.
Measles used to have a death rate of about one in a thousand. And then knock on effects because it attacks the immune system so you can lose immunity against other diseases you have had or that you have been vaccinated for.
Yeah this is true but the immune amnesia part is by far the most terrifying thing about it to me, I would rather die honestly. Getting sick is bad enough for me as disabled as I am currently.
