At least 146 measles cases have been identified in West Texas so far, including 20 hospitalizations and one death.
  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    At this point, with specific regard to populations that are willfully ignorant and resistant to obvious and basic public health precautions: I’m at the point where my reaction is simply “good luck with that”.

    I know there are considerations for immune compromised people - I’m on an immune-suppressing med myself. But holy fuck, if these idiots still haven’t found the plot after 5 years and a whole fucking pandemic, they’re not going to.

    • AquaTofana@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      I didn’t grow up in Texas but I live here now, and my first thought reading the headline was: “JFC this place is so fucking stupid.”

      • shyguyblue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I’m not talking about the kids, I’m talking about the parents, the same type of people who want me to be locked up in a camp because i need antidepressants to function. The same people who want to ban vaccines, execute the gays, deport my lawyer sister in law (while cheering the release of felons that stormed the capital).

        The only way these people can possibly empathize with actual human beings, is to hurt.

    • HM05@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      2 days ago

      These parties are geared at gathering children together to spread measles amongst the children. The parents arranging it are likely vaccinated, so the harm is focused on the kids. You’re suggesting that these kids should get sick and possibly die to spite your enemies.

      Not to mention that vaccines are only 97% effective, so spread to vaccinated people is likely. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/mmr/public/index.html

      Add to that the fact that measles can also essentially reset the immune system making people lose the effectiveness of vaccines for other diseases. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211112-the-people-with-immune-amnesia

      But, that’s all ok just to spite your enemies? Innocent children should be subjected to measles and the general public should be endangered?

      • d00phy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        2 days ago

        … And you just know that as soon as it spreads to a single vaccinated person, that will be “proof” that vaccines don’t work!

        1000 unvaccinated could die, but as soon as 1 vaccinated person spends a week in a hospital with it before going home w/ minimal issues, they have their “irrefutable proof!”

    • darkmarx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      104·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, let’s do nothing and let the children of people we don’t like die. And in the meantime, let’s put other particularly vulnerable - like the immunocompromised - at risk. But we’ll sure show a handful of people how right we were the whole time.

      You might want to rethink your moral compass.

      Sometimes, the best you can do is explain a bad decision when you see it. The people who really want to do it will ignore you. The hope is to get the people on the fence to not do it. You won’t get them all, but if it saves even one child, it’s worth it.

      • shyguyblue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        43·
        2 days ago

        This goes way beyond “people i don’t like”. These people are stupid, evil or both. People who want me executed because I like Dick. People who want to ban vaccines, so other people’s kids will suffer. People who want me in a work camp because I need antidepressants to function. People who are raising those kids to believe the same stupid, evil shit that they’ve bought into, belief that others should suffer, because reasons.

        • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          Now imagine people exactly like you, except they’re also immunocompromised or kids of these shitheads with no legal right to make their own healthcare decisions, seeing you say ‘just die to punish people we both hate lol’

          Exercise your empathy or you become a conservative. If nothing else exercise basic self preservation: most vaccines need 90%+ population uptake to work.

  • Shortstack@reddthat.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    There’s a part of me that hopes willfully ignorant parents do go to measles parties specifically because the lesson they chose to ignore will instead be learned the hard way.

    On a more positive note, Wells reported that the outbreak has seemed to sway some vaccine-hesitant parents to get their children vaccinated. Just yesterday in Lubbock, over 50 children came into the city’s clinic for measles vaccines. Eleven of those children had vaccine exemptions, meaning their parents had previously gone through the state process to exempt their child from having to receive routine childhood vaccines to attend school. “Which is a really good sign; that means our message is getting out there,” Wells said.