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US measles cases this year already exceed the total for the whole of 2023 and 2024 combined. And it is only January.
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It kills people like me who are immune compromised and can’t get a vaccine due to specific immune illnesses.
So clinically vulnerable people like me rely on population level immunity or we get fucked.
^this. Also know that babies get their first measles vaccine at 12mo. So if you have a newborn you have bad options to keep them safe from the stupid/selfish that antivax is
Oh we’re definitely fucked
I forget how this can affect immune compromised. Do you think that's the point? A slow but deliberate shift to regulate the most vulnerable out of life? No, no one is that evil? Right?
No, they genuinely think vaccines are useless and/or harmful
I don't mean those that believe. I mean those that propagated this belief.
My impression is that it was pretty organic. There’s been a large minority of antivaxers for a long time. They used to be more liberal coded, like hippie-dippie, new age, “all natural” kind of stuff. Then Covid threatened Trump’s re-election in 2020, and the right wing became reflexively contrarian against any attempt to mitigate it. And here we are, with most conservatives being antivax to one degree or another.
theres been big anti-vaccinw crowd on the right forever, mostly people in cults. it's just spread to the regular stupids via osmosis from the religious stupids
stupidity is a virus that has to be actively suppressed lest it spread
Also stupid attracts stupid. The MAGA movement and Qanon stole all of the Democrats’ raw milk-drinking anti-GMO types. That’s part of how Trump put together a winning coalition. A confederacy of dunces.
Everyone in your life who has ever voted republican doesn't think you deserve to live.
Quiz!
From which party was the US president who declared a (wildly incorrect) "end of the COVID pandemic", after a (bullshit) categoriztion of COVID as "a pandemic of the unvaccinated", and the CDC's homicidal change in masking recommendations to appease corporations (notably Delta Airlines)?
Which party's NY governor and NYC mayor were united in pushing for a ban on face-masks?
Which 2024 Democrat presidential candidate campaigned on increasing COVID testing and wastewater monitoring, increasing disability support payments, restoring mask mandates, and fynding long COVID research?