Thanks to widespread vaccination, measles had been considered “eliminated” as a continually transmitting illness in the United States since 2000 – but not anymore.
An independent commission of experts that reports to the director of the Pan American Health Organization determined that the US no longer qualified as having eliminated measles, a source close to the process told CNN on Friday. The news was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
The decision was widely expected after years of falling vaccination levels and surging case counts, but it’s still a black mark on the nation’s public health policy.
Most of these assholes were probably already vaccinated as children. They likely won’t suffer an infection. It’s their poor innocent children + infants and immunocompromised people (like me!) who can’t be vaccinated that they’re causing to suffer and even die because of their selfish idiocy. It’s beyond disgusting.
Honestly, this is on-brand for conservatives.
As long as it doesn’t affect them, they are fine. Even their children dying isn’t enough for them to say they were wrong. There are interviews with conservative parents who killed their kids by not vaccinating and they double down and said they did the right thing.
Remember that the main point for conservatives is that they want to oppress.
They have to in order to preserve their own ego. If they were to admit the reality to themselves, it would be devastating (rightfully so).
if they are willing to drink raw unpastuerized milk, they would this too.
Well you can’t expect them to change tack after their kids dies. Then they would have to admit they killed their kid.
Makes me think of Leelah Alcorn and her parents who murdered her, and their outright denial of having done so.
Not surprising their children dying doesn’t change their minds. Not the kind of people to update beliefs based on new input, otherwise they wouldn’t be antivaxxers.
Some did change from the norm that these vaccines are safe and they got them as children, then fall for the lies from their tribal sources, and think they are so smart, while vulnerable people get hurt. It is sad they are indoctrinated into dualism and must obey for conditional belonging, rather than leave that for the truth.
Usually it’s their parents who made the decision for them, and many from that generation actually experienced shit like polio, so they didn’t fuck around when it came to vaccinating their kids.
its not just selfish! they also believe the immune compromised should die for being weak!