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Ben Royce 🇺🇦not voting is exactly like being <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antivax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antivax</a>morons on the right are worked over to abandon their own health because they are ignorants is *exactly* the same as morons on the left worked over to abandon their own rights because they are airheadsfuck the social obligation arguments: it's pure self-interestthe <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democrats</a> suck, of courseas if it's a fucking romance!<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/midterms2026" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#midterms2026</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vote</a> and reign in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a>, you assholes

MikeDunnAuthorA Short History of Measles and Vaccine HesitancyThe graphs accompanying this article show that vaccination rates have risen over the last ten years in California, while declining in most of the rest of the country. The California increase in vax rates correlates with the aftermath of the 2014 Disneyland Measles Outbreak, which caused over 300 measles infections, mostly in Southern California and Canada, and overwhelmingly among unvaccinated individuals. It also sparked debate on vaccine hesitancy and led to California Senate Bill 277, which revoked the “personal belief” exemption, thus tightening the rules around vaccination requirements for K12 public school children by eliminating nonmedical exemptions.SB 277 was co-authored by Senators Richard Pan (who was a physician) and Ben Allen. At the time, some California public schools had vaccination rates below 60%, even though a 95% rate is required for Community Immunity (herd immunity) for many diseases, including measles. Though the bill was supported by the California Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the PTA and California Children’s Hospital Association, there was loud and aggressive opposition by a tiny number of anti-vax activists, who tried (but failed) to get Pan recalled. They also called him a Nazi and made death threats against both him and Allen.It takes a serious level of fear and anger to want to kill someone. So, what was driving this fear and anger?A major factor is the false belief that vaccines cause autism. For new parents, autism can be a terrifying diagnosis. So, if there is any evidence that something specifically is causing autism, it makes perfect sense to try and avoid it. And if parents believed that the state was imposing an autism-causing drug on their children, it is not hard to see why they’d associate the law-makers with Nazis, and the drug with Zyklon B. To a rational, educated person who understands that the risks associated with vaccines are actually miniscule compared with the risks associated with the diseases they protect against, this kind of thinking by anti-vaxxers probably seems absurd, or ignorant. However, it’s not just an issue of education versus ignorance. Consider that Marin County, California, one of the nation’s most affluent and highly educated communities, once had one of the lowest vaccination rates in the state.One reason people have associated vaccines with autism stems from the common mistake of conflating causation with correlation. Autism is often diagnosed in children around the age of two, which is around the same age that many childhood vaccinations are given. Many parents of autistic children got their diagnoses within a year or so of their children’s vaccinations and they made the assumption that the two were connected when, in actuality, it was a coincidence. Dozens of peer-reviewed studies have confirmed that there is no increased risk of autism due to vaccinations.The belief that vaccines caused autism really took off in the late 1990s. After British physician Andrew Wakefield published his fraudulent 1998 Lancet article, falsely showing a link between the MMR (Measle, Mumps, Rubella) vaccine and autism, there was a sharp decline in vaccination uptake. However, other researchers were unable to replicate Wakefield’s results (something that should be easy to do if the study was valid). Additionally, journalist Brian Deer discovered that Wakefield had a significant conflict of interest because he stood to earn up to $43 million per year selling test kits. And the British General Medical Council (GMC) later found that Wakefield was guilty of mistreating developmentally delayed children. When Wakefield’s study was discovered to be fraudulent, Lancet retracted his paper and the GMC revoked his medical license. In 2004, he moved to the U.S., where he continued to push his bogus anti-vaccination claims, directing the pseudoscience propaganda film “Vaxed.” Robert De Niro, whose son is on the autism spectrum, removed the film from the Tribeca Film Festival. However, proponents of the vaccines-cause-autism hypothesis, including U.S. Health & Human Services boss Robert F. Kennedy Jr., continue to push this lie. For a while, they tried to blame thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative that was used in vaccines since the 1930s. However, in 1999, thimerosal was pulled from vaccines as a precautionary measure. And, guess what: autism rates continued to climb anyway. Today’s measles outbreak is currently close to 300 cases, primarily in Texas and New Mexico, but with cases spreading to Oklahoma and other states. And nearly every one of those cases is in an unvaccinated patient. There have also been two deaths, one in Texas and one in New Mexico. However, in the U.S., measles mortality is general around 1-2 deaths per 1,000 cases. Because measles, unlike Covid and Influenza, does not mutate rapidly, this is unlikely due to the evolution of a more virulent strain. Rather, the nearly 300 documented cases today are likely a gross undercount. The actual number may be closer to 500 or even 1,000. And we may not even be at the peak yet, particularly considering how low the vaccination rates currently are.Back in 2015, when the California’s vaccination rates were lower, and its legislature was considering SB 277, one of the public faces of the debate was a 6-year-old Marin County boy with leukemia, named Rhett Krawitt. His parents argued that it was not safe for him to attend school with unvaccinated children, since he was immune-compromised and at increased risk of contracting a deadly disease from them. At the time, 20% of Marin’s students had opted out of the required vaccinations. Rhett, himself, spoke to the school board, as well as the state legislature, contributing to Marin County’s shift from being one of the lowest vaccinated counties in California, to one of the highest.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vaccination</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measles</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mmr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mmr</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/publichealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#publichealth</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antivax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antivax</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#texas</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/california" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#california</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/marin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#marin</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rfkjr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rfkjr</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ableism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disability</a>

Texas Observer“Now what we’re seeing is a full-on assault on our state’s immunization program. Activists felt like they could take advantage of the [COVID-19 pandemic] and exploit it and start going after laws that have been on the books for decades.” <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/measles-outbreak-anti-vax-legislation/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.texasobserver.org/measles-outbreak-anti-vax-legislation/</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#health</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HumanRights</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Texas</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/TXlege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TXlege</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#healthcare</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/antivax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antivax</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measles</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#news</a>

⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RFKJr</a> is claiming that the best protection against <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measles</a> is the breast milk of a woman whose blood is untainted by <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vaccines</a>.No, really.<a href="https://x.com/atrupar/status/1899636733693554878" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://x.com/atrupar/status/1899636733693554878</a><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CDC</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/NIH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NIH</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/RFK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RFK</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MAHA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAHA</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/antivax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antivax</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/antivaxxers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antivaxxers</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/vaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vaccine</a>

Texas Observer“The goal is to cast vaccines into the shadows. That has deadly consequences.” Legislators are bent on dismantling our vaccine safety net even as this deadly disease sees a frightening resurgence in our state. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/measles-outbreak-anti-vax-legislation/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.texasobserver.org/measles-outbreak-anti-vax-legislation/</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Texas</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measles</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/antivax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antivax</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vaccines</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#health</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#healthcare</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#news</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/TXlege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TXlege</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republicans</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RFKJr</a>, the new secretary of NIH’s parent agency, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HHS</a>, has disparaged <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vaccines</a> for years. Last week, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CDC</a>, another part of HHS, was asked by the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> admin to launch a study into a possible connection between <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vaccines</a> & autism, despite repeated research that shows no link between the two.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medicine</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AntiVax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiVax</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConspiracyTheories</a>

NonilexNothing to see here…<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NIH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NIH</a> to terminate or limit grants related to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/vaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vaccine</a> hesitancy & uptake  The order covers more than 40 awards to researchers around the country seeking to understand why vaccine acceptance has declined.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RFKJr</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medicine</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AntiVax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiVax</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConspiracyTheories</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/03/10/vaccines-nih-rfk-research-canceled/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/03/10/vaccines-nih-rfk-research-canceled/</a>

Texas Observer“What we’re seeing is a full-on assault on our state’s immunization program.” Some lawmakers are celebrating “medical freedom” even as the virus spreads due to low immunization rates. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/measles-outbreak-anti-vax-legislation/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.texasobserver.org/measles-outbreak-anti-vax-legislation/</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measles</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#health</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/antivax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antivax</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#news</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Texas</a>

Kevin RussellTranslated post from <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/@temptoetiam" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@temptoetiam</a>__The new US Secretary of Health , chief antivax, about the large measles epidemic in Texas, which has already killed, twice, (says this)“It’s not unusual. We have measles outbreaks every year” __The cases of measles in the USA<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Putin</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coup</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AntiVax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiVax</a>

Ben Royce 🇺🇦With <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antivax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antivax</a> morons like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RFKJr</a> in power in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> we have people dying of measles, soon polio, then what?Consumption? Dropsy? Goiter?What long defeated <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#health</a> scourges in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a> will make comeback?Is it going to be like that old game "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Oregon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oregon</a> Trail"?:"You have died of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dysentery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dysentery</a>"?wait... what the fuck?:"Dysentery outbreak hits OregonPublished Mar 06, 2025 at 2:14 PM EST"<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/dysentery-outbreak-hits-oregon-2040727" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.newsweek.com/dysentery-outbreak-hits-oregon-2040727</a>

NonilexIn more news from the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Idiocracy</a>:Reuters ExclusiveThe <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CDC</a> is planning a large study into potential connections between <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vaccines</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autism</a>, …despite EXTENSIVE scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links.It is *unclear* whether US <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RFKJr</a>, who has long promoted <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AntiVax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiVax</a> views, is involved…or how it would be carried out. The CDC & the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HHS</a> were not available for comment.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medicine</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConspiracyTheories</a> <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-cdc-plans-study-into-vaccines-autism-sources-say-2025-03-07/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-cdc-plans-study-into-vaccines-autism-sources-say-2025-03-07/</a>

NonilexIn a full-on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/antivax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antivax</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConspiracyTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConspiracyTheory</a> moment, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> vowed again to figure out “what is going on” with high rates of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autism</a>, by tasking his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#health</a> secy, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RFKJr</a>, w/the responsibility. This question has been a focus for Trump since his first term — & is a source of concern for Democrats & in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicHealth</a> community.

MikeDunnAuthorRFK jr minimizes measles outbreak, in spite of death. Yet, up until recently, no one died of measles in the U S. It had been eradicated. But thanks to the false claims by anti vax wingnuts like RFK Jr, more and more people are forgoing life saving vaccinations for their kids, increasing the likelihood of outbreaks like this, with almost all cases being in unvaccinated individuals. <a href="https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/kennedy-minimizes-measles-outbreak-wake-texas-death" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/kennedy-minimizes-measles-outbreak-wake-texas-death</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measles</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/vaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vaccine</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antivax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antivax</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RFKJr</a>

Led By Fools<a href="https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@MikeDunnAuthor</a> Alternative to vaccinations is submitting an entry to the website <a href="https://www.SorryAntiVaxxer.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.SorryAntiVaxxer.com</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SorryAntiVaxxer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SorryAntiVaxxer</a> <a href="https://bird.makeup/users/sorryantivaxxer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@sorryantivaxxer</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Vaccinate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vaccinate</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vaccination</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Antivax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antivax</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Antivaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antivaccination</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Antivaxxer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antivaxxer</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Measles</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Covid</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Covid19</a>

⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯for no particular reason i'm just going to throw out there that <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measles</a> is the most infectious disease known to man and it also is one that wipes your immune system's memory of all other diseases if you get it.to put measles's infectiousness in perspective, in an unvaccinated population it would take measles, with its 10 day incubation period, roughly 90 days to infect every human being on the planet.<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/antivax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antivax</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/vaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vaccine</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vaccines</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#texas</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a>

BørgeWhat's the deal with authoritarians and their strong need to both have more children of their skin color but also kill as many of their own citizens as possible, trough taking away vaccines, health care, safety regulations, environmental regulations, create more air pollution, more disasters without disaster preparedness, etc?Is this some sort of eugenics shit? Create as horrible a world as possible, so that only the "strongest" survive? <a href="https://tutoteket.no/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://tutoteket.no/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://tutoteket.no/tags/rfkjr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rfkjr</a> <a href="https://tutoteket.no/tags/antivax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antivax</a> <a href="https://tutoteket.no/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://tutoteket.no/tags/hell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hell</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"Meanwhile, RFK Jr., who was confirmed last week as the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), appeared in Texas on Tuesday. He did not address the burgeoning measles crisis. Instead, he continued his anti-vaccine advocacy, falsely suggesting that childhood vaccines like MMR may be linked to chronic illnesses."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measles</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Texas</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vaccination</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vaccines</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RFKJr</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/antivax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antivax</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#healthcare</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/epidemics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#epidemics</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disinformation</a> /2

William Lindsey :toad:"The vast majority of cases [in the Texas measles outbreak] are occurring among the unvaccinated. Only four confirmed cases in Texas were vaccinated. Gaines County, which has the most confirmed cases, is a rural area that has one of the highest vaccine exemption rates in Texas."~ Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims<a href="https://toad.social/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measles</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Texas</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vaccination</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vaccines</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RFKJr</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/antivax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antivax</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#healthcare</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/epidemics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#epidemics</a> /1<a href="https://popular.info/p/the-return-of-measles-and-the-rise" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://popular.info/p/the-return-of-measles-and-the-rise</a>

MikeDunnAuthorThe Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) will no longer encourage mass vaccination. It has also banned vaccination events, as well as the promotion of vaccines by all its employees. All this with a measles outbreak in neighboring Texas that is affecting only unvaccinated people."I'm really worried about measles especially, because it's the most infectious disease—period," said vaccine specialist Dr. Paul Offit. "And it's going to seek out those who aren't vaccinated."<a href="https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science/citing-government-overreach-louisiana-wont-promote-vaccination-surgeons-general-say" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science/citing-government-overreach-louisiana-wont-promote-vaccination-surgeons-general-say</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measles</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/publichealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#publichealth</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vaccines</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#louisiana</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antivax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antivax</a>

MikeDunnAuthorMAGAs are nostalgic for some imaginary time in the past when things were supposedly better than today. But I don't think they were imagining going back to world in which people were dying painful deaths from consumption (see attached article), or diseases preventable through vaccines (see current measles outbreak in Texas). Their outbreak doubled to 48 cases this week, with 13 hospitalized. The county affected has among the highest vaccination exemption rates in the state. Since 2000, USAID had helped save the lives of >58 million TB patients worldwide. Now agencies are scrambling to make up the shortfall. <a href="https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/tuberculosis/usaid-funding-freeze-disrupts-global-tuberculosis-control-efforts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/tuberculosis/usaid-funding-freeze-disrupts-global-tuberculosis-control-efforts</a><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/health/measles-texas-outbreak/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/health/measles-texas-outbreak/index.html</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vaccines</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antivax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antivax</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/usaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#usaid</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rfk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rfk</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/publichealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#publichealth</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tuberculosis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tuberculosis</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measles</a>

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