The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.
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* 1 in 5 unvaccinated people who get measles are hospitalized
* 1 in 20 children with measles get pneumonia
* 1 to 3 in 1000 die
If you're not immune, close contact with an infected person gives you measles 90% of the time
We've gone back to the Dark Ages.
https://www.epid.gov.lk/storage/post/pdfs/en_66e0a3fb5dada_Vol_51_no_32-english.pdf
Explain that!
It's pretty hard to stay anti vaxx when one of the founders of the movement claimed he could cure measles with his own personal bone marrow. (H. Hugh Fudenberg)
Lol
The old days were wild
https://newrepublic.com/post/192025/robert-f-kennedy-jr-response-measles-death
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/mmr/public/index.html
While the Mad King prioritizes selling $5 Million Gold Visas;
America’s babies are dying
of measles in his kingdom.
Does this sound
like “America First”!
#TrumpMeasles #USGoldVisa
#USDemocracy
https://youtu.be/y0opgc1WoS4?si=cKun2odsBvm_-f5i
If someone with measles was in the room 15 minutes ago you will probably get infected
If you are immunized you'll be fine
This is only going get worse with those who rely on the viewpoint of quacks or a gut feeling
Yeah… best part: he’s a friggin Dr.
And he is off "outbreaks are normal"
Rather than "outbreaks are preventable"
https://bsky.app/profile/voxindie.bsky.social/post/3lj4b4rcepq27
Anyone who had the shot in those years is recommended to get a booster (unless contraindicated by immune issues)
I didn't want to take any risks among kids with parents who think vaccines are bad.
This crazy self centered non waxing crazies worry me every time I step out the door...grateful to live in the Bay Area where educated people vaccinated their children, but get just a bit further out and those MAGA cultists do not...
It's a lead shot from a firearm, but a shot finally!
You are so picky, by god sake.
That's why #PublicHealth efforts aren't working anymore.. I tried for 4 years at VDH
Signed,
A very very anxious mother of a 10mo
https://bsky.app/profile/meehawl.com/post/3lj44h2lsy22z
& yet we do nothing to prevent anything
& now we have rfk in the US
On top of the cluster**** of other massive problems
How do we maintain hope?
5. Knowledge is Power: research, learn, inform. Now is the time to be well educated about tyranny, resistance & democracy.
Idk if yr question was rhetorical, but there ya go!
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Message me anytime & I'll hype you up on hope. It's contagious so we've got that going for us!
Life purpose atm is to dose people with hope, information & resources to sustain us thru this malarkey.
3. Embrace small wins locally. If local politics are too big then just love your family/friends & small creatures.
1. Focus on mutual support & local community - I have been thru homelessness, incarceration & over a decade of heavy drug use that took me to those places ... when I am feeling hopeless, I call someone & ask them about their day ... human connection gives us hope.
As an RN, my mom was livid.
Measles is more infectious than Rubella.
A generation ago, vaccines were a welcome progressive health protector. Measles, mumps, whooping cough.
Polio.
Unbelievable to see suffering and death that is easily preventable.
(My childhood friend born deaf because her mother contracted measles while pregnant. Before there was a vaccine.)
And it wipes lots of other immunities when it hits.
Like a new-born baby nestling within fierce on-going rsv, flu, birdflu, sars2, tb infections ...
"Geniuses", those anti-vaxxers. 🙃
And loss of hearing.
So sad for those children whose parents neglected their duty to care.
I’m surprised this website still exists.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20211112-the-people-with-immune-amnesia
https://www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/texas-announces-first-death-measles-outbreak
And thanks to vaccines, most people don't have infection-based immunity.
Vaccine-Preventable Diseases are Making a Comeback
Dunno if HEPA filters might help. I'd have to look that up.
But the vaccine for measles is *very* helpful.
Measles is aeresolised, and pneumatic.
No sneezing required.
The 🤡🤡 are running the 🎪
(they always come up with some lame new excuse 🙄)
Good for you though, I've given up lol.
A$$hole
Vaccines reduced this drastically.
Trump & RFKjr brought death and evil back.
I don't ever want to hear the term pro-life again.
Give me a break
should be illegal
what choice in the matter did that child have?
they are so NOT pro-life
Hitting children should be illegal, I don't give a fuck what cutesy name they call it. Lying to children, too.
This denying a child vaccines because of some dumb buck archaic belief when we have modern science at our disposal is just....
it's abuse of the first order and should be illegal
"Antivaxxer Parent" are two words that should never appear in the same sentence.
The human race has known that vaccines work since Edward Jenner published his findings in 1798. Vaccines have saved the human race from millions, perhaps billions of deaths.
Yeah, it's some wild shit they believe.
Never mind. We all know why. Anti-abortion was NEVER about being pro-life. It’s about control and power, something the GOP lusts for.
- urban pollution,
- noise pollution,
- industrial pollution,
- toxic chemicals,
- indoor air quality,
- global warming gases,
- etc.
#PassiveHouse #PassivHaus can address so many, protecting us while we clean up our act.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/mumps-in-adults
republicans should not be parents
Anyone who buys the abortion “pro life” nonsense doesn’t know the history behind it.
They won’t feed poor children.
They are denying unaccompanied minors legal aid.
They have shut down USAID.
Me thinks it’s just about controlling women’s bodies. Once that baby is born - the concern is over.
Now I'm super powered up with all my booster and vaccines.
so go get those titers and vax DONE!!
My zoomer kids and their beta kids are 100% up to date on vaccines. That's one thing I made sure of for my zoomers.
My mom said I had the German measles. I probably had one vaccine as a child and then a second in college.
I'll ask my NP what she thinks.
Won’t.
But that's not the world we live in, anymore !
What's up is now down,
what's hot is cold,
and what's right is now wrong !
Isaiah 5:20
And that's why you listen to science and that's why it has to be mandatory.
Unfortunately, Texas Republican leaders and legislators have contributed to vaccine misinformation through public statements, lawsuits, and legislative actions.
Prosecutable in every state in the US.
Will anti vaxxers go get immunity shots for their kids or play wait and see?
A
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement
between Blue states. Or scientifically literate States.
Otherwise: visas
Balkanised United States Territories
#BUST
When we let religious zealots run free, the children are always the first to pay.
They always blame someone else .
Wake up the Christians
Wake up the poor
Wake up the minorities
Who voted for Putins Whore.
Have you ever witnessed a child dying of measles? I have.
Please don’t stop fighting for what’s right
I'm liberal, but I also don't think we should be telling Menonnites how to live. This situation shows the complex interplay between communal responsibility and personal choice.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/how-rfk-jr-falsely-denied-his-connection-to-a-deadly-measles-outbreak-in-samoa/
https://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c7452
Too much bullshit was tolerated for too long. These are LIVES.
Never mind that when you don't vaccinate, you also kill your kid's immunocompromised classmates. Oh well, freedom isn't free, right?
(NB: this is ironic derision. If you don't vax, I want to offend you.)
Tell us all your mumbo jump BS on the record DR KENNEDY. #kennedyliedchildrendied
Vaccines Protect Me From You And Protect You From Me!
#Vaccination - is the *Only Way* to achieve
'Herd' or 'Community' Immunity!
GET VACCINATED!
Brag About Having Done So!
SHOW Your Disdain for Anti-Vaxxers!
The Whole World Knows Better! 🇺🇸 🌍
Instead of prison they'd make a fucking holiday for the child here.
If parents intentionally cause their children to die because of their own convictions, they should be held accountable for it. They had the job to protect the kid, but they killed it.
Lock them up for life.
Getting rid of religious and "personal belief" exemptions to required vaccinations for public schools is a start, but doesn't do enough.
Un-fucking real. I can't believe this is a America but I guess I need to start. This is a America.
dog shit take. -584/10
The Russian Roulette of not vaccinating has 5 bullets loaded.