Analysis of Texas measles outbreak shows just how dangerous virus is
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That idea has been in the air lately, partly in the context of dementia (see here: https://meincmagazine.com/health/2026...isk-experts-have-startling-hypothesis-on-how/ .) Though I don't think the thought is fixated on the adjuvants as such - it could be an effect of vaccination itself.
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May RFK jr and his enablers suffer the worst effects of SSPE. May their suffering be long and drawn out, so as to serve as a warning to those who put their misguided trust in him.
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"Being a citizen of, or even a visitor to, this country comes with a civil responsibility to safeguard others from preventable illness."
Absurd! This is seditious thinking! Don't you understand that the single-most American core value is the selfish concern for one's self and that greed, ignorance, and selfishness drives American-style capitalism? "Civil responsibility to safeguard others"? What kind of foolishness is this!? You need to be rehabilitated, if it's not too late.
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In most U.S. states, and also under Obamacare, medical insurance companies may charge up to 50% higher premiums to smokers vs. non smokers. They should be allowed to do the same for people who refuse vaccination absent a valid medical reason or, alternatively, deny coverage of medical expenses for any disease for which a vaccine was available but refused absent a valid medical reason. Why should I have to pay a higher premium to help my insurance company cover avoidable losses caused by stupid people?
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Somehow the stereotypical “good ol days” crowd never realizes that. It’s like they genuinely believe their subjective childhood experience is a record of objective reality in the world at that time.
Stuff like Jim Crow laws, segregation and Mcarthyism? Always downplayed or ignored.
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Decades of anti-government rhetoric, entrenchment of conspiracy theorizing, social media disease, and general dipshittery.
The US spent the better part of 15 years marinating in its own adrenaline and cortisol after 9/11 because we had no fucking sense of perspective, and we're just primed for "they're out to git ya"-type thinking.
I discovered today that a non-trivial number of people are apparently convinced that a recent appearance by Robert Harward on FOX News was some other dude wearing a mask Mission: Impossible!-style because of a weird shadow around his neck. The obvious, logical explanation - bad lighting and video compression - must be wrong and it's really Tom Cruise or somebody cosplaying as this dude because ... well, because it's FOX News, because Trump, because aliens, because some batshit reason.
Our brains are broken right now, and short of spiking the national water supply with Xanax and making everyone take a nap for a month, I don't know that they can be fixed.
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Well we know Trump already hates his first term history, since he’s been instructing institutions to remove everything bad that he did during the term. Having the Smithsonian remove his impeachments is the best one.
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Watching a society self-immolate, the self harm born of a cult of ignorance, conspiracy theories, and anti-intellectualism, is depressing. I'm fortunate to be quasi-isolated in a bubble of sanity due to where I live, and the type of work I do, but moving abroad when I retire is now something I view as a given.
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I would love it if all the “Christians” (cough) were Raptured tomorrow and left the world to us sane people…
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The full article by Asimov is worth reading. Its just as applicable today as it was then, and will probably continue to be for as long as humans exist.
https://aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ASIMOV_1980_Cult_of_Ignorance.pdf
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Always remember: Right now many places in the USA still have enough vaccinations for herd immunity, and many have close to enough. Not quite, but enough to prevent a really major outbreak. If vaccinations go below 50%, the unvaccinated are in real trouble, and many vaccinated with a bit of bad luck get sick.
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", four of whom were pregnant women in their third trimester."
So now your only hope rests on the likelyhood that measles cause spontaneous abortions?
So now your only hope rests on the likelyhood that measles cause spontaneous abortions?
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If it wasn't for the innocent kids getting hurt the most I would love it if Russia has another lab accident involving smallpox.
Fatality rates that high would take a good chunk of that nutjobs out of the genepool.
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A great aunt of mine attended school in McLean Virginia in 1954, where the first double blind field trial of the Salk polio vaccine was conducted. Her parents signed her and her sister up with great hope, but when she contracted polio the next year, it became clear my aunt had received the placebo. She was caught in the tail end of the 1952-53 outbreak of 93,000 cases. She spent the rest of her life in a wheelchair, and died at age 43 when her pained, damaged body just wore out.
We do not have a right to contract a contagious preventable illness. Those who doe so are attacking public health, and should be treated the same as any terrorist who blows up a train station or hijacks an aircraft. If you get measles because you chose not be vaccinated, you're an idiot. But when you pass it on to someone else, you're a criminal.
We do not have a right to contract a contagious preventable illness. Those who doe so are attacking public health, and should be treated the same as any terrorist who blows up a train station or hijacks an aircraft. If you get measles because you chose not be vaccinated, you're an idiot. But when you pass it on to someone else, you're a criminal.
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