In 3 days, the number of measles cases in a highly unvaccinated area of Texas has doubled. There are now 48 cases, all of whom are unvaccinated, and 13 of whom have been hospitalized so far, for a hospitalization rate of 27%. This is huge figure in epidemiology. This outbreak will keep spreading.
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highly effective &
usually lasts
a lifetime. You can get a titer at your PCP to see if a 2nd dose is needed/useful. That said, if you’re worried
about outbreaks, getting a 2nd shot now
won’t harm you (if you’re not at high risk for adverse reactions) & may boost your
immunity a
bit more.
Covid, across strains, seems to be between 2.5 and 5.
It is airborne and persists in an infectious state for a long time outside the body.
From a mutation standpoint, measles has a lot of advantages that would be attractive to another virus.
If you're correct about the R(naught) then the Idiocracy doesn't have months before the fit hits the shan...
1 > 15 > 225 > 3375…..
A vaccine is painless, takes a moment, quick, and two shots give 97% protection.
Considering how quickly COVID spread with a much lower R0, that's terrifying.
How long until the Idiocracy is quarantined from the rest of the world at this rate?
If this were a novel virus, it would be as you say.
*glances towards RFKj shaped shadow overtaking us all*
I took the stairs in most buildings where I worked. More exercise and less exposure (fewer people used stairways).
Handwashing, masking, distancing… all that stuff will help lower your risk.
Best protection from serious illness is, as always, the vaccine and/or previous exposure.
Our vaccination rates have dropped but I hope they don't plummet.
A man who shunned the doctor’s creed,
Now shapes the laws that health must heed.
His war on shots, once fringe, once wild,
Will claim the weak, the newborn child.
If America sneezes the world catches a cold .
Trump not enforcing tough mask rules during Covid emboldened clowns all over the globe .
American Meh-ceptionalism is here
(I believe there were some data suggestive that people born to people with previous infection & then vaxed are better protected but don’t quote me on that)
Think!
I heard of this last yr and asked my doc for testing. I went out and got another MMR shot 3/24. I’m good now but wouldn’t I be the same danger to myself and others with these results?
#priorities
This is not meant to minimize the issue, but it seems to be a baked-in hazard with insular communities. Kiryas Joel, Ohio Amish, etc.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1602295
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/ohio-amish-reconsider-vaccines-amid-largest-measles-outbreak-u-s-history
https://www.shtetl.org/article/yeshiva-leaders-mandate-immunization-after-state-penalized-them-for-noncompliance
Make Measles Great Again
MPGA
Make Polio Great Again
MPGA
Make Plagues Great Again
My Fave:
MNSGA
Make Natural Selection Great Again
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/new-trump-order-pulls-funding-from-schools-with-covid-19-vaccine-mandates_n_67af89f2e4b0b48674495b51
Focus on rogue POTUS defying judicial orders and abusing the powers of his office b/c Americans don't have the stomach to say NO to Trump, hold him accountable and punish him for wrong-doing
Everything else is just petty distraction
Call Congress: (202) 224-3121
Measles Again, Grief Anti-vaxxers
You’ve got to be kidding me!
For the love of God
That’s just stupid!
and if you or whoever you refused to vaccinate IS hospitalized . . . NO VISITATION. period.
you know . . . communicable disease and all
These are actions of a 77 million people cult of willful ignorance.
They need to suffer significantly to learn.
Nothing good ever comes from willful ignorance.
Are big and bright!
Deep in the heart of Texas!
( i am always vaccinated with the latest as i am in TEXAS!)
So Thoughts and Prayers…
F A F O
( P S. There is a WHOLE LOT OF STOOPID HERE!)
I am curious what kind of insurance these families have. What’s the average cost per family impacted by the outbreak.
15% of residents are in poverty
30% of residents are without health insurance
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/mmr/public/index.html
Just a few years ago, 3% of Samoa’s population caught measles thanks to RFK’s BS
Here comes years of public health emergencies “like no one has ever seen before”
People should not reverse a principled rejection of modern medicine the minute they catch an easily preventable, deadly disease
As Americans, we should support these folks by refusing them modern medicine. Don’t let them compromise their beliefs!
They're trying to kill as many as they can as fast as they can. Every death brings them closer to their goal of killing the majority of us. They think, with most of us gone, the climate will stabilize so they can live on.
They see us as superfluous anyway
EVERY death counts towards the total they're aiming for (which is in the billions).
If they withhold help, medicine, vaccines, food, they won't need gas chambers.
Not hands on murder, but hands off.
No fingerprints.
MAGAts will eventually understand this.
The 1% will not be.
The 99% are not needed: like horses were not needed after horseless carriages took over.
The 99% are not wanted because the 1% blame us for #ClimateChange.
The 1% want most of us GONE so they can live in peace in Eden.
That's the plan anyway.
If there’s only one Trump voter (including because they’re kids), then I care a lot more than if there are 40 Trump voters, in which case they can have my thoughts and prayers.
And Kansas has tuberculosis outbreaks!
Measles and tuberculosis making a US comeback tour!
But do not worry RFK Jr is in charge! 😆
Hope #RobertKennedyJr gets this!
Sorry if that sounds a bit callous but y’all can’t have it both ways. 🤷♂️
Children go to school.
You know who ELSE 'goes to school'?
Young teachers of childbearing age, some in early stages of pregnancy ... which can be devastating.
“Due to the ease with which measles is transmitted from person to person in a community, more than 95% of the community must be vaccinated in order to achieve herd immunity.”
https://www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/measles-infection-wipes-our-immune-systems-memory-leaving-us-vulnerable-other-diseases/
It is pretty well established it is greater than 10 in most situations.
I used to call them ignorant. (not knowing)
But when anyone believes, what an idiot, who tells lies more than 50% of the time, should "never" be believed "any" of the time.
That is stupidity!
Thoughts and prayers
You’re number one!
You’re number one!!
You’re number one!!!
Thoughts and prayers and whatever bullshit I can say that makes you think that I care.
You vote MAGA, you suffer the consequences,
...Measles outbreak
...Travel industry tanks
...Food industry tanks
...Farmers stuck without workers
...Tariffs rises costs of everything
...Millions die USAID cuts
...What next?
If they’re not vaxxed bc they’re too young, it’s a disgraceful tragedy. Either way, children are the losers in this scenario.
Pro-life party, riiigghttttt
I say let the herd cull itself at this point
I think RFK (and Trumps entire administration) hits all the cliché euphemisms for illicit substance abuse.
Sources say Musk brought in his personal substances purveyor into DOGE, so we are buying them for them.
..and not your shameful attempts at demonising migrants, but control them from American tourists carrying newly mutated versions of measles and bird flu.
..you know like the Tories did (not) during COVID..🙄
Last I knew, our vaccination rates were still at 96-7% in our schools
For NO REASON 😩
They tend to be in the same family and cluster in the same areas, activities, schools, churches.
For some selected groups it could easily be everyone who’s immunologically naive.
But that’s MAHA.
I feel like even increased deaths won’t change their minds. They are out to prove something. No matter the cost.
Whatever that something is.
(Perhaps the worm knows?)
Other than letting them play on the freeway, it’s a pretty egregious case of child endangerment.
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title18/part1/chapter115&edition=prelim
Good luck America, you are going to need it. 🍊🤡, Kennedy and their ilk will have multiple deaths on their hands - civil lawsuits.
Also, bye, bye tourism.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rfk-jr-children-vaccinated/