RFK Jr. Must Be So Proud: South Carolina Racks Up 646 Measles Cases In Latest Outbreak

[erronis]

https://www.wonkette.com/p/rfk-jr-must-be-so-proud-south-carolina
Robyn Pennacchia

Clearly this is all going according to plan.

On Tuesday, USA Today published a new mini-documentary in its Extremely Normal series -- which examines how groups and ideas previously considered "extreme" have found their way into the mainstream -- about "crunchy MAHA moms" who love natural foods and hate vaccines. To absolutely no one's surprise, these "crunchy MAHA moms" spent a lot of time talking about how they just wanted more research to "prove" vaccines are safe, only to admit at the end that even if they had all the proof in the world, they still wouldn't get their kids vaccinated, because they "haven't dealt with any of the diseases" their kids were not vaccinated against.

Probably because, you know, other people did get their kids vaccinated.

Well, a whole lot of people are now dealing with a pretty serious outbreak of one of those diseases in South Carolina right now. Six-hundred forty-six people, to be exact(ish), have been diagnosed with measles, with 88 new cases confirmed on Tuesday. And it's not just children. Eighty-four students at Clemson and Anderson Universities are currently being quarantined with the vaccine-preventable virus -- a pretty serious situation given that, the older you are, the more deadly the disease can be.

Tuesday also happened to be the one-year anniversary of the first reported case of measles last January. If it turns out these cases are linked, that would mean the US has had a straight year of continuous measles infections. What does that mean? Well, it means that, for the first time since the year 2000, measles will no longer be considered eradicated in the United States.

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[get the red out]

1. It's hard to leave a cult

If you mold the granola you will disappoint everybody!

Seriously though, I am not a mom but I was very crunchy years ago (still a little). I remember being in the local co-op trying to pick out cheese and heard two people behind me talking about their kids suddenly becoming autistic after the MMRI vaccine, I thought they were nuts. This would probably be about the time that fraud of a research study was published but before RFKook became the big dawg in this grift.

[ChicagoTeamster]

2. How are they doing with COVID and this year's more virulent flu with all of these anti vaxxers in their state?

[UTUSN]

3. K&R - Likely HE was innoculated as a child

[erronis]

5. It's said that his whole current family stays up-to-date on vaccines. This is just for the poor and unedjikated.

[progressoid]

4. I lasted about 45 seconds listening to those crunchy Moms and had an urge to have a mid-day double gin and tonic.

Also fuck RFKjr.

[MineralMan]

6. God's Gift to the Community.

[dickthegrouch]

7. Actual measles confers 'better' immunity than some unproven vaccination

AFAIK The potential for shingles later in life is enhanced by having experienced actual measles, much more than by having been vaccinated and avoided measles all together.

[hatrack]

11. Sure you don't mean chickenpox?

Pretty certain there's no measles-shingles link.

[dickthegrouch]

13. Ooops!

Fingers moving faster than brain that day.

[B.See]

8. I'd bet my last dollar that ALL of those

fkrs are vaccinated up the yazoo. They save that anti vaxxer sht for their moronic CULT.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. MaddowBlog-Key CDC leader calls measles outbreaks the 'cost of doing business'

Deputy Director Ralph Abraham appears unconcerned that the U.S. is losing its measles elimination status. Public health experts aren’t pleased.

Link to tweet

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/measles-outbreaks-elimination-ralph-abraham

One might expect the leaders of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to react to these developments with great concern. But the Trumpified CDC is apparently content to shrug with relative indifference. STAT News reported:

With measles transmission in the United States at levels that haven’t been seen in decades, the principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday that he would not view the loss of the country’s measles elimination status as a significant event.

‘Not really,’ said Ralph Abraham, a physician who formerly served as Louisiana’s surgeon general. ‘You know, it’s just the cost of doing business, with our borders being somewhat porous [and] global and international travel.’

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..Abraham added, “We have these communities that choose to be unvaccinated. That’s their personal freedom.”

As The San Francisco Chronicle noted, public health advocates responded to the CDC deputy director’s comments with disgust. Pediatrician and vaccine specialist Paul Offit said in an online discussion hosted by the health blog Inside Medicine this week, “When you hear somebody like Abraham say ‘the cost of doing business,’ how can you be more callous? Three people died of measles last year in this country.”....

Abraham has gone so far as to describe Covid shots as “dangerous” (they are not) and touted ivermectin during the 2020 pandemic, despite science showing the drug was an ineffective treatment.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. nevertheless brought the Louisiana Republican in to serve as principal deputy director at the CDC, effectively the agency’s No. 2.

Three months later, Abraham appears wholly unconcerned about the United States losing its measles elimination status.

My siblings and I all had measles before the vaccine. It was not fun. My sister had polio and was on crutches for a while but has recovered. We need vaccinations for all of these diseases.

[hatrack]

10. It's now 700 confirmed for South Carolina, as of about two hours ago . . .

So, yeah, Freedumb!!!

https://www.wltx.com/video/news/health/54-new-measles-cases-reported-in-the-upstate/101-f48f80aa-6c53-4c12-be01-69f25e6235a1

[erronis]

12. I'm trying to remember my epidemiological knowledge gained during the Covid - something about R0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number

Great chart showing how measles is actually more contagious than Covid.