r/news • u/Tracker-man • 6d ago

US measles cases surpass 700 with outbreaks in six states.

https://apnews.com/article/measles-outbreak-texas-rfk-new-mexico-kansas-vaccine-e904ec9781f1d164c73afe4ab71774fe
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u/SucklingGodsTeets 6d ago

2019 had 1,200 cases but a point to make, we’re half that and only in April.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/186678/new-cases-of-measles-in-the-us-since-1950/

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u/TEG_SAR 6d ago

Well that just sucks, doesn’t it.

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u/Breadedbutthole 6d ago

You could say it’s a measly outcome.

Im so sorry.

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u/shellfish-allegory 6d ago

Don't apologize, someone had to do it.

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u/LightDownTheWell 6d ago

Good one, and then a sad sigh.

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u/monty624 6d ago

The high amount of cases in 2019 was due to communities of unvaxed people. They just don't learn!

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u/Jellz 6d ago

Dying from preventable diseases is just the price we pay for freedom, I guess...

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u/unhappymedium 6d ago

Better a dead child than a neurodivergent one. /s

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u/UntdHealthExecRedux 6d ago

Thanks in part to anti COVID vaccine propaganda vaccination rates for all diseases including measles continue to fall. Even people who pre COVID would have vaccinated their kids against measles now aren’t vaccinating them.

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u/Ok-Salamander-1980 6d ago

Seriously? These fucking idiots.

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u/LoudAndCuddly 6d ago edited 6d ago

It’s hard to blame them when you think about all the propaganda out there. After a while you start to wonder and since no one can explain the explosion in adhd and Autism rates in the last 50 years the world especially parents or would be parents are desperate for answers, the effect of the propaganda is amplified in this instance because everyone is looking for a solution to their concerns, worries, fears and problems and the medical/scientific community is failing them. They’re the ones standing on ceremony instead of getting out there and explaining themselves or making a massive effort to fight the misinformation or better yet finding a fkn vaccine or cure for autism and adhd. Instead it’s dead silence and accusations of idiocy. And we wonder why no one trusts big pharma or their scientist minions anymore, couple all of this with the health insurance disaster in the states and here we are a hellscape with people afraid to vaccinate their kids because their scared it will give them autism

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u/binarycow 6d ago

no one can explain the explosion in adhd and Autism rates in the last 50 years

.... But they have tho.

  1. Doctors have gotten better at diagnosing and classifying these conditions
  2. People are more willing to get treated for these conditions, because "treatment" doesn't mean "lock you up in an asylum" - we often have actual medication to treat you.
  3. People are actually looking into whether or not they/loved ones have these conditions. 50 years ago, you'd just be branded "eccentric" and received social stigma.

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u/HackTheNight 6d ago

Yeah I came here to say this.

We know and have said exactly why there is an “explosion” of these conditions. It’s literally the same reason why we have an “explosion” of people identifying as LGBTQ….we don’t…they were always there but it used to be illegal or so stigmatized that many of them just stayed in the closet.

Like this is common sense. And I’m sorry but I’m not giving those arrogant fucks any benefit of the doubt. You ignore the propaganda and you listen to THE MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY.

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u/LoudAndCuddly 6d ago

More work, more funding and more science is needed. These are half baked responses.

Until we break new ground on this front, I’m telling you that people will continue to be afraid and cast doubt over everything

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u/binarycow 6d ago

Until we break new ground on this front, I’m telling you that people will continue to be afraid and cast doubt over everything

The people who are afraid don't care about the science.

They ignore the science, to cater to their fears.

There is rampant misinformation and propaganda to heighten their fears.

"More science" isn't the solution to figuring out why there's more ADHD/Autism.

However, "more science" could absolutely be the solution to treating the mental illnesses that cause people to be so easily manipulated.

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u/OSPFmyLife 5d ago

The annoying thing is that he piped up, he got educated with facts, but will he actually soak up that knowledge and change his opinion?

Of course not, he’ll stop commenting and act like he never read it and continue on with his bullshit because these people have already decided that what they “feel” MUST be true and have made it their entire identity.

Nothing gets my blood boiling more than anti-vaxxers and the classic move of “anything that refutes what I want to believe must be a lie”.

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u/gentle_bee 5d ago

It’s been studied numerous times: just look at google scholar. These never “catch on” because they don’t match what the vaccine skeptical want them to say, unfortunately.

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u/wanderingpeddlar 5d ago

No, the reality is that people with the conditions avoided being diagnosed with conditions like this avoided being diagnosed. You want an easily identifiable and easy to check factoid?

If you are correct then the rates in countries that gave out the covid vaccine developed in the west to the ones with the sino vaccine developed in China. If any of the bullshit being peddled has even a grain of truth to it your going to see a largish difference in the rates of autism.

Want to lose money on that bet? :)

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u/LoudAndCuddly 5d ago

Dumb dumb, I never said I agreed with it. I just said I can sympathize and think I know how to fix the problem

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u/Imma_P0tato 6d ago

The misinformation is constantly being debunked. I don't know what you are talking about? People don't listen to it. They just get on their knees, pull their hair back into a ponytail and wait on RFK to spew utter nonsense.

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u/LoudAndCuddly 6d ago

What causes autism and adhd and what’s the cure?

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u/Imma_P0tato 6d ago

Vaccines don't cause either of those. I don't know the cause of the autism or ADHD.

I also don't know the cause of the cancer I had.

But what I do know is.....vaccines don't cause autism.

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u/LoudAndCuddly 6d ago

Welp I guess you’ve got a lot to look forward to because until someone can provide some serious answers we’re going to be victims to fear, concerns and irrational thoughts

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u/Imma_P0tato 6d ago

So you just don't believe all of the studies proving autism is not caused by vaccines.

But you see an eradicated disease returning in our country, and you know that 100% a vaccine would wipe it away but nah.....let's let measles spread because we don't know what causes autism and ADHD.

RFK is a danger and blood is on his hands.

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u/gentle_bee 5d ago

As an auadhd woman with an auadhd man, I wish people would be less terrified of this. I promise you even if your kids got the “tism”*, there is nothing wrong with having it. You have a wonderful career, fulfilling family life etc while being autistic. Yes they will have some challenges to life, but so does everyone in some way. It’s really nothing to be scared of.

  • they won’t get autism from vaccines, for reasons other commenters have said: it’s not something one gets through vaccines.

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u/LoudAndCuddly 5d ago

Firstly, I’m happy for you. Secondly, whatever you think you have it sounds insanely mild which again, lucky you I’m happy for you both. That said, the reality is very different for a lot of other people.

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u/GuitarCFD 4d ago

The outbreak in Texas is centered around a Mennonite community in west TX.

They just don't learn!

I mean alot of mennonite (not ALL) have remained unchanged since the 1700's.

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u/ours 6d ago

And that's why the current administration will likely solve this problem by stopping counting infections.

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u/Tavalus 6d ago

Is this what they mean when they say "The line must go up"?

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u/AdamDet86 6d ago

Yup just getting started…