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RFK Jr tells US families to vaccinate children against measles amid outbreak
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2026
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Last outbreak we had in Virginia tracked back to an unvaxed Afghani family. We need to push on entry we vax everyone.
https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/clinicians/update-on-measles-in-virginia/
5 years ago, quickly contained? Noteworthy, sure, but unrelated to this article.
The question you should be asking is, "why are measles able to spread through US populations" regardless of origin? From the article:
Honestly, I'm surprised RFK Jr. changed his position at all. Some parents of children who die of measles double down on their decision not to vaccinate.
People have egg allergies and can't get vaccines unfortunately. Then you have the nutters that won't take vaxxes and then here we are.
For me I had a really bad reaction to the last set of vaccines I got. I now know what Tetanus feels like in a minor way. Believe me you don't want it, it hurts a lot.
Who told you that?
https://www.bsaci.org/resources/allergy-management/food-allergy/vaccines-and-food-allergy/mmr-vaccine-and-egg-allergy/
Maybe there is a very, very small percentage of the population who cannot get vaccinated because of egg allergies. But that would be covered by herd immunity.
Correct! And why are they so prevalent? Partly because the head of health and human services spent years advocating against vaccines, is himself a nutter:
But now he doesn't want the casualties attributed to him, so he pretends to be reasonable.
That is unfortunate. Thank you for getting vaccinated. Some people do not have the option, it would literally kill them, as would getting certain viruses. I hope it was some kind of fluke. Do you know what the specific reaction was that caused your pain?
The people with allergies are a tiny fraction of the population, and they're one of the reasons why everyone else should get vaccinated. The other reason is that none of the vaccines are 100 percent effective. The tiny percentage of the population who can't get vaccinated, and the people for whom the vaccine didn't fully protect, are much safer if the other folks are vaccinated because the virus can't get a foothold, so exposure the up being negligible. Say someone comes in from another country that has an active infection. If all the people who that person encounters are protected, then the virus stops with that person.
The problem is that the number of people buying into the anti vaccine garbage is now nontrivial, so that herd immunity is out the window, and these previously well controlled viruses are now able to spread.
Provide sources when you spew that shit. It can't be fox or equal since they've already said they're an entertainment company, look it up.
Well, when they succeed in slashing the funding for all the outbreak tracking programs, they can ignore the non-existent data and go back to saying whatever they like to hear themselves say...
https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/clinicians/update-on-measles-in-virginia/
does not equal
While your logic is fine, the comparisons are inaccurate. The source says "Multiple cases of measles have been confirmed among individuals who have arrived in the United States from Afghanistan." Which sounds like they had measles before they got here. Though, the source isn't explicit one way or the other.
Wow, really? They were unvaxed coming from Afghanistan how hard is that to understand and a measles carrier? We used to quarantine ships (even Astronauts) to keep people safe and now days its a bloody free for all.
The level of not understanding the source of the issue is mind blowing. If they were quarantined and vaxed after there would be no measles outbreak...
If >95% of the people are vaxed it's not problem someone comes in unvaxed. Probably there is also a number on the opposite end, where coming in unvaxed is very dangerous for that person.
Then you should get yours, republican
I do have my measles vaccine thank you. I'm up to date on all my vaccines.
Congrats, you're a racist with a sense of self preservation.
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How am I racist? I pointed out a fact
https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/clinicians/update-on-measles-in-virginia/
Well if you're a Republican... You didn't deny it...
So should I deny being Gay or not being white? What kind of intolerant nonsense are you about?
So accepting and tolerant... lol NOT!
I am proud to say I never will accept the morally bankrupt hypocrisy of Republicans. Nice try trying to lie this into what Republicans are though, fascist.
lol you throw out fascist as if you understand what one is. Throw in racist while your at it these have no more value anymore. Over played...
Not a racist or a nazi bub.
Are you a Republican? Would you ever consider voting for a Republican again? Did you vote for trump? Do you regret it?
You support Republicans. Republicans are Nazis. This makes you a Nazi, the worst thing an American can be. Nice work totally turning this all around on me though, it totally worked! 😉
The only ones using the word “tolerant” these days are MAGAts. 🤔
Yeah because people like you can deal with opposing opinions... lol not.
Yes people like us don't accept Nazis and we're as proud of that as y'all are of hurting minority groups.
Nazi, racist, homophobe, fascist you are just deluding the words and no one cares anymore. That shit was played out in 2020 and your beating a dead horse...
I point out facts, you got to ad hominem, way to go!
Still haven't denied being a Republican. No one else here needs proof I know what a Nazi is because people here generally know. Since you don't, you can educate yourself vs trying to sealion me, which won't work anyhow.
You tried to claim I was a homophobe (zero basis) and now you're pretending I have to prove you're a Nazi to even know what one is. Yeah man I'm totally the one here arguing in bad faith. If you weren't a Nazi you would be denouncing trump right now, but instead you have no problem with thousands of people knowing you voted for him and would do so again.