The Stupid

It appears that we have hit another milestone in antivaxx insanity, with measels and chickenpox exploding in the United States due to reduced vaccinations.

We are killing ourselves and our children:

A rapidly growing measles outbreak in Columbus, Ohio — largely involving unvaccinated children — is fueling concerns among health officials that more parent resistance to routine childhood immunizations will intensify a resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases.

Most of the 81 children infected so far are old enough to get the shots, but their parents chose not to do so, officials said, resulting in the country’s largest outbreak of the highly infectious pathogen this year.

“That is what is causing this outbreak to spread like wildfire,” said Mysheika Roberts, director of the Columbus health department.

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More than a third of parents with children under 18 — and 28 percent of all adults — now say parents should be able to decide not to vaccinate their children for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) to attend public schools, even if remaining unvaccinated may create health risks for others, according to new polling by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health-care research nonprofit.

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Adam Moore, a father of three in the Detroit suburbs, said none of his children — 9, 12 and 17 and enrolled in private school — have received routine childhood immunizations, let alone vaccines for the coronavirus or flu. He values personal liberty and says the government has no right telling people what to do with their bodies.

“I find it a hard argument when the government says we’re all for individual liberty on abortion rights and all this other stuff, but when it comes to vaccinations, there’s no such thing as ‘my body, my choice,’” said Moore, 43, an account manager for a marketing company.

I will explain this with small words:  When someone gets an abortion it does not effect anyone but the woman, but when someone refuses to get vaccinations, it creates epidemics which involve the whole community.

Moore, who describes himself as Republican-leaning, said he does not view childhood diseases such as measles and polio, which have resurfaced in recent years, as threats. But if the deadly Ebola virus were circulating, he said, he would want his children to get vaccinated.

Measles kills people, polio cripples them for life, but only Ebola is a scary problem because ……… I guess if you are "Republican-leaning" because it comes from Black people in Africa?

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A few weeks ago, [Chief Medical Officer for Alasks, Dr. Anne] Zink, an emergency room doctor, saw her first case of chickenpox when a young woman walked into the Mat-Su Regional Medical Center in Palmer covered in large, painful lesions. The woman said she and her family did not believe in vaccinations and told Zink she thought chickenpox no longer existed.

Seriously?  Have you seen the ads for the Shingles Vaccine that appear on most major sports broadcasts?  They all say that it comes from the Chicken Pox virus.

Have you ever talked to someone who has had Shingles?  I've had Shingles.  It is some of the most excruciating pain that I have ever experienced.

If I could find a way to monetize stupidity in the United States, I'd be richer than Elon Musk Bernard Arnault.

Hell, I'd be able to buy and sell him 10 times over.