alt Hacker NewsMeanwhile, the USA is bringing back measles, mumps, rubella, Hep B, and lots of intestinal parasites. Back to the Future! MAGA!
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That's the irony of MAGA: they make everything worse while making nothing great.
I blame Facebook and not MAGA for this. Amplification is insane.
and screw worms
America: hold my syringe...
Not only bringing back but also exporting it.
Currently we have a measles outbreak in Brazil brought from the US, so everybody is getting vaccinated (even those who already were, like me) to try to stop the spreading and protect those who can’t get vaccinated.
Really would love for US social and media networks to get their shit together and stop spreading misinformation in the name of profit…
Strangely, anti-vax sentiment is surging in a lot of countries. Canada has higher rates of vaccine rejection than the United States in some categories, as one example.
It’s a strange global phenomenon and I don’t think there is one single root cause. MAGA/MAHA definitely jumped on to the anti-vax train as it became popular, but many forget that Trump presided over the rushing of the COVID vaccine into availability and production. He hasn’t done vaccination any favors in recent years, but I’m skeptical that the widespread rise of vaccine skepticism can be attributable to this administration alone.
I think there’s a bigger story about the cyclical nature of how the dangers of threats that previous generations faced is slowly lost over time, combined with the rise of contrarianism and conspiratorial thinking on social media.
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People were refusing the measles vaccine back in 2000
Yes, the debacle around the COVID vaccine really ruined credibility for a lot of vaccines.
Plus, they're trying to jail someone who, apparently, was focused on making the correct scientific choices for the covid vaccine during the peak of the pandemic.
The lead Fox News "article" plainly stated that the COVID shots cause an 87% miscarriage rate.
This has nothing to do with reality -- and they absolutely do not care about fighting "fair."
I'm not a trump fan, but the antivax train has nothing to do with him. (Evidence: Canada is doing even worse then us when it comes to measles). If we want to fix this problem (we do), the first step is to recognize the actual problem, not to play the blame game on whichever politician you currently don't like!
When you bring millions of people into the country from places where these diseases run rampant, of course the rate of spread will spike.
This has been fed policy for decades.
Should surprise no one.
This planet had always belonged to the fungi and the bacteria, the viruses and the protists.
It wasn't until the trump administration that I started to suspect that they're actively tampering with human politics.