Public Health News | Measles outbreak, RFK Etc

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superrific said:
Yeah, anti-vaxxing has been a thing on both far right and far left for a while, for different reasons. The far left doesn't trust corporate power; the far right doesn't trust science.

RFK comes from the left-side, which is why he also talks about Big Agribusiness etc., but the two visions wrap around.
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It is true that the far-right has become anti-elite in the last 20-30 years, which includes hostility to science. But another significant part of the anti-vax movement on the right is the government compulsion angle.

I've always thought of it as: Hippies/yoga moms don't trust Big Pharma, and MAGAs don't trust Big Government -- leading to the new unholy union of MAGA yoga moms.
 
I think the race to the bottom is greatly weighted in favor of the Christofacists.
 
finesse said:
I think the race to the bottom is greatly weighted in favor of the Christofacists.
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Are you suggesting that all the Christofacists, a/k/a Republicans, have to do to reach bottom is to dig their way up a few feet until they break through the floor and proclaim, "I won!"
 
“The United States recorded three measles deaths in the first 24 years of this century. In just over three months of 2025, it has equaled that number. The most recent patient, an 8-year-old unvaccinated and previously healthy girl in West Texas, died late last week.

… On Sunday, after attending the funeral of the 8-year-old who died, he issued a post on X with what is being seen as his most positive statement about the measles vaccine to date: “The most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine.”

But he stopped short of urging parents of unvaccinated children to get their children inoculated, and he suggested that the growth of new cases and hospitalizations had flattened.

Marks, who noted that cases in Texas increased markedly last week, challenged that assertion. “I don’t know, a 26% increase in a week … that’s not flattening,” he said. “It’s a way of trying to decrease concern that could potentially keep this outbreak going.” …”

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U.S. may be reverting to a time when measles deaths were not very rare, experts warn

Peter Marks: “Unless we dramatically change course, drastically change course, it's going to be a problem. This is what measles does.”
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Whooping Cough Killed Two Children in Louisiana. Here’s How to Protect Kids

The bacterial infection pertussis has sparked an uptick in cases nationwide and has caused two deaths in Louisiana
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Two infants have died of whooping cough in Louisiana in the past six months, according to the surgeon general of the state’s health department. The deaths from this vaccine-preventable illness are the first to occur in Louisiana since 2018.

There have been 110 cases of whooping cough in the state so far this year, compared with 154 cases in all of last year, CNN reported. Cases have been rising throughout the U.S. after they dropped dramatically during the COVID pandemic. There were 35,000 cases in the country last year—higher than any year since 2012.

The spike may have been driven by declining vaccination rates for childhood diseases. Two months ago Louisiana’s health department said it would no longer promote vaccination.
 
farce© said:
You are correct that anti-vaxxers were considered a segment of the looney left pre-COVID, but the "anti-fluoride in the our water" crowd was always right wing conspiracy theorists. I guess the anti-vax thing isn't much of reach from the antifluoridation nuts.
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The plot of Dr. Strangelove back in the 60s involved an insane, paranoid, right-wing US Army General blaming Communists for contaminating American men's "precious bodily fluids" by putting fluoride in city water supplies, so he launched a nuclear bomber attack on the Soviet Union. I believe the right-wing John Birch Society believed that putting fluoride in city water supplies was a Communist plot to render American men sterile or at least poison Americans back in the 60s. I always enjoy watching Dr. Strangelove, but damned if I ever thought that someday Americans would actually elect (and allow to be appointed) a bunch of John Birchers and General Rippers to the highest offices in the land.
 
Zoo_View said:
“They were mainly DEI.”

$11 billion in DEI programs?

Sure.
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What they’re really doing is hurting classes of people they perceive as threats and antagonists to their fragile egos, all the while using DEI as a wedge (and euphemism for words that start with n, s, f, k, c, w) to execute the largest regime of corruption in US history. All the while, run-of-the-mill maga clap like trained seals whenever they see a TikTok video of an upset liberal, despite this corruption regime actively stealing from their wallets.

Antisocial disorder has consumed the US government and a plurality of the voting populous.

I know you know all this. I say it “out loud” for my own processing.
 
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