Stupid State of Texas Measles Outbreak is already Out Of Control

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

According to the Houston Chronicle, public health officials in Texas think that there are likely 200-300 people now infected with measles. If confirmed, this outbreak is already out of control. H/t to @mickiemo.bsky.social for the heads up. www.chron.com/news/houston...

— Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social) 2025-02-15T18:33:41.076Z

According to the Houston Chronicle, public health officials in Texas think that there are likely 200-300 people now infected with measles. If confirmed, this outbreak is already out of control. H/t to @mickiemo.bsky.social for the heads up.

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Measles requires 95% vaccination rates for herd immunity.

It has a 16.2% case fatality rate for unvaccinated children under 5 years and 24% for children under 9 months (who are unable to be vaccinated).

30% of the survivors experience severe complications like blindness, deafness, or encephalitis.

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“I've worked in community health for 29 years. I don't know if I can do it anymore. All the messaging in the world can't stop stupidity.”

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/measles-vaccine-vaccinations-outbreak-texas-20169162.php

200-300 Texans feared ailing of measles as disease spreads through state
State officials urge residents to get vaccinated.

By Timothy Malcolm,
Weekend Editor
Feb 15, 2025

[Skittles]

1. unvaccinated morons

fucking disgusting

[Hekate]

12. Their innocent children, mostly

[bdamomma]

40. Yes

the children will suffer.

[BOSSHOG]

2. The Governor of Texas activates his

blame somebody else department. Because blaming someone else Is essential to conservative purity.

[LisaL]

3. Not to worry.

Drink raw milk and it's all going to be fine. After all, RFKjr is in charge.

[Hugin]

7. Rub some roadkill or horse dewormer on and walk it off.

God’s will and all of that.

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

13. Too many MAGA loonies in Texas failed to die from Covid

Survival of the fittest

The wacko anti-vaccine MAGA cult members failed to die off in mass numbers.

Natural Selection failed us,
Failed to eliminate the MAGA hordes

[Hugin]

4. "Herd immunity" has been issued!

Hell, yes, it’s out of control.

[msongs]

5. RFK Jr disease nt

[RockRaven]

6. Keep this one factoid in mind from that article when talking to antivax freedumb nutters

And slam them over the head with it. Measles KILLS one in six unvaccinated kids under five who catch it.

[Hugin]

9. That's a shocking statistic.

No wonder there’s a vaccine.

[3Hotdogs]

28. But the ones who die, are those that haven't accepted Jesus as their savior.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

27. Except that is a lie. See post #22. Don't lie if you want counterpropaganda to work.

See Post #22.

Less than 1 in 500 infected would die in the US. Maybe a bit higher in Louisiana or parts of Texas.

About 1 in 30 infected would die in lower income countries.

About 1 in 5 infected in lower income countries AND the population is displaced.

Please see post #22 so you won't be lying when you get the actual facts.

[LeftInTX]

34. John Hopkins says it kills 2 or 3 out of a 1,000.

We all had measles. If it killed at that rate everyone would have been quarantined. Instead everyone was instructed to "play", so they could get it before they started school.

There was no vaccine when we were kids.

[Diamond_Dog]

39. It is infuriating when they just shrug and say it was "God's will."

[mr715]

8. Next up,

the stupid state of Florida.

[Hugin]

11. Louisiana just shuttered their vaccination advocacy program.

So, there’s the road all set.

[Baitball Blogger]

10. You know these idiots had measle parties.

[Mariana]

25. They didn't have to.

Measles spreads all over the place just fine without any help. Infected people are contagious for days before they have symptoms.

[tinymontgomery]

14. Breaking out in NJ also

A patient infected with measles may have spread the highly contagious virus to others at Englewood Hospital's emergency department this week, health officials said Friday.
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/health/2025/02/14/measles-patient-may-have-spread-virus-at-nj-hospital/78651686007/

[LisaL]

15. It's going to be everywhere.

Measles are incredibly infectious. And vaccination rates have been dropping.

[tinymontgomery]

19. Yep, why I not thrilled about going out around people much anymore.

Wasn't that thrilled before, now it is even less.

[Mariana]

30. Are you concerned about getting measles? You can get an MMR booster.

[tinymontgomery]

38. Concerned about any disease or flu etc

People just aren't getting any type of shot now. The flu is wide spread in SC, I've received my shot but you still get get sick if around sick people a lot. May not bad enough to go to a hospital but it can still but you down.

[SunSeeker]

16. This will destroy Texas' understaffed medical facilities. Pure insanity.

[LisaL]

18. Not just TX.

After all, RFKjr is in charge now.

[SunSeeker]

20. Yes, Louisiana is even worse off, with much higher poverty and fewer medical facilities.

A measles outbreak there will be even worse. And now Louisiana will no longer pursue universal vaccinations. People, especially babies and children, will needlessly die. This is such a nightmare.

I am so thankful I live in California.

[Godot51]

17. As is usual...

in today's America, the young, the weak, the innocent, and the helpless must pay for the stupidity of the adults.

[moniss]

21. RFK Jr. will be consulting the with the expertise

of the "renowned" medical experts Joe Rogan and Aaron Rodgers.

[RealityBasedNewYorkr]

22. Measles facts

First off: antivaxers are willfully ignorant and selfish

However, CFR for measles is not anywhere near what OP stated.

UNICEF data https://www.unicef.org/eca/stories/how-dangerous-measles#:~:text=While%20measles%20can%20be%20risky%20for%20anyone%2C,both%20to%20infection%20and%20to%20health%20complications.

In middle and upper income countries, out of every 1,000 children who contract measles, 70 to 90 children will develop an ear infection, 80 will develop diarrhoea, and 10 to 60 will develop pneumonia, a lung infection which can be especially risky for young children. 

Around one in every 1,000 to 2,000 children with measles will develop post-infectious encephalitis, inflammation of the brain which can cause a coma and death.  

While death from measles is rare in middle and upper income countries, it can occur. In the US, for example, it is estimated that for every 1,000 children who contract measles, one or two will die. In lower income countries, the risk is far higher: for every 1,000 children who contract measles, 30 to 60 will die. In some populations – such as children who have been displaced – around 300 children will die of every 1,000 who contract measles.   

[HappyLarge]

29. The US has plenty of "lower income" areas

and medical deserts. I think those places will see third world outcomes…

[murielm99]

37. It isn't all lower income people.

Years ago, our school superintendent, now retired, lost a son to measles encephalitis. That was before the vaccine was available. He is a good Democrat, and so is his wife. She was my son's first grade teacher. They are friends.

[Ilsa]

23. They'll blame it on a lie that migrant workers from

Mexico are not vaxxed.

[bdamomma]

41. Very

probable they would blame someone else. Mask up everyone.

[peggysue2]

24. Oh, My!

State officials urging people to get vaccinated. What will Bobby Kennedy say?

This is the House That Ignorance Built!

I weep for the children in Texas. I weep for us all.

Bastards!

[Klarkashton]

26. They should have gotten vaccinated.

What else can you say?

[Mariana]

32. The children don't have any choice, unfortunately.

[Lunabell]

31. Murdering their children on the altar of right wing politics.

They'd rather have a dead kid than one with autism. Shameful.

(I know the vaccine doesn't cause autism, but they believe that.)

[Norrrm]

33. If MAGAs don't care about dead schoolchildren from gunshots, they won't care about dead kids from measles.

Just so long as they get their anti-vaccine agenda.

[bdamomma]

42. I wonder

how they would feel if it personally affected them in their families. Losing a child from a preventable disease.

[maspaha]

35. Good work MAGAts!

Y’all be killing & maiming y’all own selves…except you put me & my loved ones in danger

@$$holes!!

[osteopath6]

36. Congrats anti-vaxxers

The kooky anti-vaccination crowd has won their prize for defying common sense and solid science. The painful and/or deadly outbreaks they cause should be criminal.

I feel terrible for the children. The ones unvaccinated or otherwise. Its their weirdo parents who are to blame. Denying safe preventative healthcare to children should be a freaking felony.

This is needless suffering.

[Raftergirl]

43. I got the MMR vax last year when I had my titers check to be a NICU cuddler. I didn't have Mumps antibodies

as I never had them and there was no mumps vax when I was a kid. Never had measles, but I was vaxxed for it, as soon as there was a vaccine.

Had rubella as a kid and a very mild case of chickenpox. Has my shingles series a few years ago, and the first shingles vax when I turned 60.

[the_liberal_grandpa]

44. FAFO

Sorry Texas. No fucks left to give. You are on your own.

[Skittles]

45. these idiots can end up affecting everyone

the reason we don't all get measles shots update is because it's not out and about - but will be now, because of these unvaccinated morons

[Strelnikov_]

46. R0 of 12 to 18

300 x 12 = 3600

3600 x 12 = 43, 200

43,200 x 12 = 518,400

and so on.

[jeffreyi]

47. I had a severe case of measles

About 1959-1960. Third grade. Three weeks in bed. My dad was an internist. Otherwise, probably hospital. After...couldn't see the blackboard. Teacher noticed. She was a great teacher. Anyway, coke bottle glasses, from there on out. Finally had Lasik surgery that helped a lot, around 2000. Measles is NOTHING to fool around with. It's a killer or a debilitator. If the vaccine had been available at that time, I would have signed up, twice.