With a measles outbreak growing in West Texas, and cases popping up across the country, experts say vaccination is your best protection. And it's not just for kids. Some adults may need a booster.
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When I enrolled in graduate school at 40 years old, I needed to provide proof of my MMR vaccine. I no longer had record of the vaccine series, so I needed to do a proof of immunity test. However, despite having received the vaccine long ago, my immunity was gone. So, yes, we all need boosters.
Please get yourselves and your kids vaccinated. Vaccines killed off this disease, then the ignorant started preaching how bad it was to get vaccinated. For your family’s sake get vaccinated and ignore the ignorant
Please don't let them make you hateful. Children dying is not something we just let happen. Lots of folks in healthcare are pushing back on this insanity.
It’s crazy that they can’t use that same circular logic to believe that maybe god is protecting them by helping scientists to come up with vaccines 🤦🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️🙄
Like the guy who was stranded on his roof in a flood. 3 boats & helicopter tried to rescue him; he refused all help, said “god will save me.” He drowns. Asks god why he wasn’t saved. God says “I sent you 3 boats and a helicopter. Why did you refuse help?”
Sadly, there will always be a small percentage of vax'd kids who don't develop immunity, for whatever reason. It's not ok to put them in unknown amounts of harm. :(
That's Trump's plan, to rid us of illegal immigrants. Do you remember the caravans of illegals coming for us, they'd murder us then rape us in our beds, then that caravan somehow got lost till Trump needed it again, and again it mysteriously disappeared again.
The measles outbreak in West Texas is the price that is paid for ignorance and Texas is ground zero for a LOT of ignorance. They produce so much ignorance that they try to export it to other states. Build The Wall! Build The Wall! around Texas.
Someone should explain to JFK jr that average life expectancy pre-modern medicine, all food and drink was organic, and most people already worked on “farm labor camps” was 33 years…
It's okay. RFK, Jr probably has a plan to stop the spread of measles with roadkill and colloidal silver instead of the proven safety and effectiveness of vaccines that prevent measles.
Remember Trump said'' Maybe standing in a bright light, or cleaning your system by drinking bleach'' That night Er's were overflowing with people that took Trump's advice, I keep under estimating the number of stupid people in this country.
Omg they are OBSESSED with detoxing “parasites.” What most of them don’t realize is that what they see come out aren’t parasites, they’re shitting out their own intestinal lining.
With the Trump outbreak growing in the US, and extremisme popping up across the country, experts say good education is your best protection. And it's not just for the future. The present may need a booster.
It’s not as simple as letting unvaccinated die. The more unvaccinated infected, the more vaccinated are exposed and possibly infected. This gives the virus more opportunity to mutate and to evade our immunity. This is bad for everyone.
When I went overseas several years ago and wasn’t sure if I was still immune from my vaccine, my doctor wrote a lab order for me…and I was. If you are worried if you still have immunity, you might want to go this route.
Hmmm, we do two here. One when they're little babies and the second at 5/6 yrs (kindergarten age). I'm Gen x so I only had 1 as a kid and I had my booster in the 90's. Better late than never! And there is ZERO real risk to getting another booster if you're not sure.
I am also Gen X. Got a blood test that showed zero antibodies to measles. When I went to get a vaccine, I was told it was a series of 3. Maybe it’s for adults? Hope they still have it available in August!
I'm Canadian and we use an MMR vaccine (measles, mumps, rubella or "German measles"). I believe there are a couple of different variations so that could be the reason.
Before the first measles vaccines were developed in the 1960s, nearly everyone got the disease during childhood. So people born before 1957 are assumed to have natural immunity
"Need" - maybe. Depends what strain you had and how much the current one is mutated from that.
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"Should absolutely get because holy fuck your government has just created a measles epidemic" - yes. Yes of course.
Ok I say let’s keep vaccinating our children but don’t convince the other side lol that’s will help get rid of them if they die little by little we are good 😊
That’s not how it will work for the future generations, sadly. Babies, infants that are too young to be vaccinated (with parents intending to vaccinate) will pay the price as well. It is a sad, sad reality.
Just a reminder that the US gets unvaxxed ppl from all over the world that visit the US & brings their diseases here. White Europeans were 1st to bring diseases to America & wiped out nearly All Native Americans.
It all started with Jenny McCarthy blamed vaccines for her son's autism diagnosis & Rosie O'Donnell chimed in. Both women are liberal Democrats. A few yrs later, Jenny sheepishly confessed her son didn't have autism, but had something else. Jenny lied about the vaccines & pile believed her.
If started when a British doctor faked a study to sell more of his own individual vaccines saying the MMR caused autism. He was trying to make money by selling 3 injections instead of 1
I didn't know that. I just remember Jenny McCarthy say, on the View when Rosie O'donnel was a co-host, that she blamed vaccines on her son's autism diagnoses. Very interesting & very disturbing that this all started with a British doctor. Shame on that British doctor.
Yup, there was a whole investigation, considering how many people have died due to his lie, not just children but think of the covid vaccines, people no longer getting flu shots. I think he should be tried in the Hague personally.
So they get measles and Brucellosis as a reward for owning the libs? honestly don’t think the consequences will dawn on these people until it hits them personally
Correction, it will never dawn on them. They will get called out and look for justification, which some unhinged conspiracy theorist will provide, and they will continue to live in delusion. They are beyond self realisation, they need full cult deprogramming.
Truth - they are blaming Mexicans for the outbreak, invoking the age-old “dirty diseased immigrant” stereotype. You can see it in the comments on a Fox story about the Texas outbreak.
Your doc can order a titer to check immunity to measles. I had zero immunity to measles and was vaccinated between 1971 and 1974. You just get ine live dose and you’re good. Did not wven hurt and I did not feel icky.
It would help, NPR, in that effort, if you'd cease reporting on the cases. I mean, it won't help reduce cases (quite the opposite) but it will reduce the number of reported cases, which is what politicians care about.
The problem with vaccines is that they're effective and safe, but no media wants to run a story saying "great news, vaccines are still working. Keep it up science!"
So people who got vaccinated as kids, or didn't and were lucky enough to not get measles or mumps, have decided that vaccines had nothing to do with their deadly sickness free childhood. In fact, they learn just enough to convince themselves vaccines are actually bad for people.
Then the media runs all these stories about people not vaccinating their kids, even telling the public vaccines are effective and safe, but now more people learn just enough from the media story that they ignore the full story and decide to join the first idiots driving us into the abyss.
Anti-vaxers know so little about what they're talking about, while ignoring contrary evidence, that they genuinely, though wrongly, believe they are right. It's that, or they have so little understanding of how their actions affect others, that they'll burn the world for their own peace of mind.
A local station asked listeners a poll question if they would get vaccinated in an outbreak. Unsurprisingly for this station, the answer was overwhelmingly no.
Imo they asked the wrong question. It should have asked if they would get their kids vaccinated from a serious life threatening outbreak.
Don’t put your children in danger! Make sure they’re up to date on ALL of their vaccines!! A terrible virus is spreading across the country…it’s the STUPID VIRUS! Don’t catch the STUPID VIRUS!
Yea but RFK says meditation is the best cure so please do not offer him any vaccine so he can die and leave us alone please make sure he doesn’t get any and Trump and Elon too just let them die
Nah, the president says you don't need vaccines. Cost's too much money. Maybe you can buy some from California or Canada cause your Governor couldn't give a damn about you. Poor Texas
Every non vaxing parent should have to sign a form saying they read the studies that vaccines work. Also sign the doc saying they read the rebuttal on vax causing autism. And initial the chart showing that childhood mortality dropped like a rock from mid ‘50s to 2000s because of vaccines.
Good luck with that since dr. roadkill has already begun filing the paperwork to eliminate certain vaccines & end school vaccine requirements. All while silencing the few researchers they didn’t fire & banning public health info so if there is another pandemic we will all be left ignorant &/or dead.
“Yeah but we are Texans, and a bunch of us are too stupid to know any better. So we’ll just accept the virus and spots and the number of kids who are going to die. It’s in God’s hands anyhow.”
Because certain people have spent the last 30 years pushing lies that vaccines don’t work when they already have been working for decades. And certain bad parents believed the hype and blighted their kids with diseases that used to be rare by refusing to get their kids vaccinated.
Never mind pointing out what everyone else thinks. As soon as I read of the outbreak I was tested and found out I needed a booster. I got it. If you need it, just do it and move on to the next crisis.
When I went back to Collage over 30 years ago, I was required to get a new MMR & Polio vacation, because the one I had as a child was a 'dead' virus. Glad I gad hotten that!
Let nature take its course. If you don't get vaccinated, that's on you. If your kid dies from a disease that is 100% preventable, that's on you. Vaccines save lives. End of story.
The problem is they can get other ppl sick including children too young to be vaccinated and the immunocompromised. If it only affected them I wouldn’t give a shit, but it hurts so many other ppl.
I have my physical in March. Doc, shoot me up. I work in the schools and it is just good practice but with all the things going around now, they can boost whatever deemed necessary.
One month of Trump: Press freedom under siege.
The newly-elected president, his administration, and his political allies have conducted a rapid series of attacks on press freedom that amount to a monumental assault on freedom of information.
I can't believe we are in this place. Trump MAGA does not want vaccines. Some individual candidates running as democrats believe in vaccines. Unfortunately the country has no good health leadership.
If your child was too young to be vaxxed, or couldn’t for some other reason, and some antivaxers little Petri-dish gets your kid sick and they die, criminal charges should be brought against them, or at the very least you should be allowed to sue.
The MAGA Manchurian Regime believes that a LACK of vaccinations will be a good way to cull the most vulnerable among us, saving them more money than the results of Elon's impulsive & erratic cuts.
But...these diseases WILL come after MAGAS, too, no matter how powerful the positions they hold. #Truth
You think THIS is bad, wait until the African Ebola cases which are going unchecked & spreading comes to America with RFK, Jr. at the helm.
Yes, we're in deep shit over our heads. MAGAS might not realize Ebola is nonpartisan & WILL come after THEM, too.
And Trump cannot stop it w/his magic wand.
Great 🫤. I fit into the “born after 1957 but vaccinated before 1968 category”. Looks like I’m going to need another vaccination…no thanks to all the anti-vax morons out there reinvigorating diseases that were once considered mostly gone.
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Religion is just another cult that brainwashes people into thinking that when you die, you're going to heaven as your reward for being a good person, and hell if you're not. The devil is God's greatest enemy, so why would the devil punish you for breaking God's rules? You'd be greeted as a friend.
"Man is the most insane species.
He worships an invisible god while he destroys a visible nature unaware the visible nature he is destroying is the invisible god he worships"
As a born/raised (& expatriate) Texan, the state gives vaccine waivers out like CANDY. There was a time when it was oft smaller religious sects like Mennonites, Amish, Jehovah's Witnesses- NOW, stay @ home suburban essential oil MLM selling white mothers go hog on no vax. 🤷🏻♀️ They lived all around me.
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“Vaccines are poison! Oh look, Ivermectin is on sale this week!”
Let stupidity take care of itself.
And that's why if anyone ever listened to me I would call them stupid.
I'm just venting. Something psychotic people have made nearly impossible to do without getting banned for normal folks.
I fully understand that the costs wouldn't solely be people I "Dislike," but also their kids, others
I just want them to stop.
It's the easiest thing to do. You just stop. Look around. The world doesn't fall apart. You learn maybe you were lied to.
The world is weird man -- Everyone tryinta fite.
I am 100% aware that some of the things I say cannot and will not ever encompass the totality of the point.
I get mad though.
The Vaccine Autism issue never should have happened
There was Never any question about Vaccines NOT causing Autism, it was all made up
The truth was boring
https://open.substack.com/pub/biggovernment/p/autism-and-vaccines?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1vj4ca
RFK, Jr what now? This is your fault. No blaming Biden either. We didn’t have this problem with his administration.
A face full of itchy pimples and a painful scrotum? What could be more manly??
He's a Republican, so you know he's right. He's not one of those liberal hippie doctors a with 'mEdiCaL DeGrEe'
(I missed a word)
(Don't answer that !) 😜
I understand in an abstract way their whole "covid cure" thing, but now they talk about it like it's a panacea.
There isn't one agent that will cure Covid, cancer, psoriasis, and parasites, despite their claims.
You first Donny
Republicans invested in ivermectin & hydroxy Chloroquine ect ect...it's about promoting their investment
Just like they did with Covid
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/21/nx-s1-5304458/measles-vaccine-booster-health
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"Should absolutely get because holy fuck your government has just created a measles epidemic" - yes. Yes of course.
Should call #BobbyBrainworms and see if he’ll double your raw milk rations.
It would help, NPR, in that effort, if you'd cease reporting on the cases. I mean, it won't help reduce cases (quite the opposite) but it will reduce the number of reported cases, which is what politicians care about.
Why do you do this?1?1
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"SAVE LIVES"
Imo they asked the wrong question. It should have asked if they would get their kids vaccinated from a serious life threatening outbreak.
Now is our time, it's up to us.
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The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
Numbers are growing. Next, bird flu and TB.
Only accept tRump Brand IVERMECTIN from RFK’s Essential Oil store!!
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https://bsky.app/profile/teabelly.bsky.social/post/3lil763nmos2x
that anti-vaxing idea
A build-in self destructing mechanism…
Burning to ashes
down in hell
HAHAHAAAAAAA
The newly-elected president, his administration, and his political allies have conducted a rapid series of attacks on press freedom that amount to a monumental assault on freedom of information.
Smh
What vaccination?
We are now in the hands of the ANTI VACCINATION guru.
But...these diseases WILL come after MAGAS, too, no matter how powerful the positions they hold. #Truth
Yes, we're in deep shit over our heads. MAGAS might not realize Ebola is nonpartisan & WILL come after THEM, too.
And Trump cannot stop it w/his magic wand.
Since I was born in 1954, I don’t think I was ever vaccinated against measles. I will ask my PCP if she thinks I need the Measles vaccine.
He worships an invisible god while he destroys a visible nature unaware the visible nature he is destroying is the invisible god he worships"
We all come from the same primordial soup
Tens of thousands in medical bills vs $2 MMR vaccine, pretty easy decision for critical thinkers