• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    What the hell is going on? I used to say we live in the dumbest timeline. Now it’s like we’re living in a glitching timeline where nothing makes sense. Nothing feels real. It’s all just bullshit to make you outraged, and it’ll change tomorrow when there’s some other stupid bullshit to make you outraged.

  • SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today
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    19 days ago

    The health secretary’s call for parents to vaccinate their children for measles contrasts starkly with the many years in which Kennedy has been a leading proponent of misinformation questioning the efficacy and safety of vaccinations. Even since he became the country’s top health official, he has depicted a measles vaccination as a personal choice and claimed inaccurately that the power of the inoculation is waning.

    Children are dead because of what he chose to say.

    He went on to blame the outbreaks on religious communities who eschew vaccines and on global health conditions.

    I mean… a broken clock is right twice a day, I suppose. But he should not be in the position he has been appointed to. More people are dying.

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    19 days ago

    Last outbreak we had in Virginia tracked back to an unvaxed Afghani family. We need to push on entry we vax everyone.


    Virginia has confirmed a measles outbreak in Buckingham County (expanded to include Cumberland County) in 2026, with multiple cases linked to individuals who recently arrived from Afghanistan

    The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) has identified that some of these cases occurred among Afghan evacuees transported to the U.S.

    https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/clinicians/update-on-measles-in-virginia/

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      19 days ago

      Provide sources when you spew that shit. It can’t be fox or equal since they’ve already said they’re an entertainment company, look it up.

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          19 days ago

          that some of these cases occurred among Afghan evacuees transported to the U.S.

          does not equal

          Last outbreak we had in Virginia tracked back to an unvaxed Afghani family. We need to push on entry we vax everyone.

          • TIEPilot@lemmy.world
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            19 days ago

            Wow, really? They were unvaxed coming from Afghanistan how hard is that to understand and a measles carrier? We used to quarantine ships (even Astronauts) to keep people safe and now days its a bloody free for all.

            The level of not understanding the source of the issue is mind blowing. If they were quarantined and vaxed after there would be no measles outbreak…

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        19 days ago

        I do have my measles vaccine thank you. I’m up to date on all my vaccines.

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            19 days ago

            How am I racist? I pointed out a fact


            Virginia has confirmed a measles outbreak in Buckingham County (expanded to include Cumberland County) in 2026, with multiple cases linked to individuals who recently arrived from Afghanistan

            The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) has identified that some of these cases occurred among Afghan evacuees transported to the U.S.

            https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/clinicians/update-on-measles-in-virginia/

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                19 days ago

                So should I deny being Gay or not being white? What kind of intolerant nonsense are you about?

                So accepting and tolerant… lol NOT!

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                  19 days ago

                  I am proud to say I never will accept the morally bankrupt hypocrisy of Republicans. Nice try trying to lie this into what Republicans are though, fascist.

    • SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today
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      19 days ago

      5 years ago, quickly contained? Noteworthy, sure, but unrelated to this article.

      The question you should be asking is, “why are measles able to spread through US populations” regardless of origin? From the article:

      Jha said that the dramatic rise in measles cases on Kennedy’s watch was not coincidental. “The administration has not done enough to promote vaccines. It has not done enough to highlight the harms that come from measles.”

      Honestly, I’m surprised RFK Jr. changed his position at all. Some parents of children who die of measles double down on their decision not to vaccinate.

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        19 days ago

        “why are measles able to spread through US populations”

        People have egg allergies and can’t get vaccines unfortunately. Then you have the nutters that won’t take vaxxes and then here we are.

        For me I had a really bad reaction to the last set of vaccines I got. I now know what Tetanus feels like in a minor way. Believe me you don’t want it, it hurts a lot.