Summary
A measles outbreak in rural West Texas has surged to 49 confirmed cases, mostly among unvaccinated school-age children, with officials suspecting hundreds more unreported infections.
The outbreak is centered in Gaines County, home to a large Mennonite population with low vaccination rates. Despite CDC support, Texas has not requested federal intervention.
The outbreak has now spread to Lubbock, raising wider public health concerns.
Experts warn it could persist for months without increased vaccination efforts, but skepticism toward vaccines remains a significant barrier.
Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.
“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.
“I feel all sleepy,” she said.
In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.
Roald Dahl, pleading with people to vaccinate their children against measles.
According to the doctors from the DoYourOwnResearch University - like donvict, Joe Rogan, and Brainworms - it’s probably because she didn’t eat properly, get enough sunshine, and work out. Maybe a dose of HCQ or horse dewormer to top it off and she’s be in top-top shape. And getting those chakras aligned…
Obviously, /s
Anti-vaxxers and the bullshit artists calling themselves “skeptics” (they are NOT FUCKING SKEPTICS, by the way - the abuse of that term is maddening) drive me crazy. They can all go fuck themselves. They are fine with killing people, even children, rather than admit they have no fucking clue what they are talking about. It’s all about them and their goddamn ego.
And much like a novel of his works, a bunch of kids are going to have to die for us to figure this out.
Maybe we can call them late term abortions to get Republicans to actually give a fuck about all the kids harmed by anti vaccination
I hope some day we can invent some sort of treatment that could prevent kids from ever getting this disease.
My greatest fear is that we will never find the cure for being an idiot. I know for some people that the disease is fatal.
Luckily for you we’ll soon be able to test your fear “Trump’s education secretary may be asked to dismantle the Education Department. Here’s what it does” https://apnews.com/article/education-department-trump-linda-mcmahon-9fc4fcef00e11b842063235798119cfc AP February 2025
Like why don’t they just make something that makes the disease not hurt us and then put it in our bodies… Why do they have to have all this lab processed shit that they don’t actually know what it does and try to put it in our bodies…
You know what’s interesting is that the first real anti-vaxxers started because old vaccines would use pus from an infected cow. Something about it being unholy worship of cow or some nonsense.
Now the anti-vaxx crowd is all crying about synthetics… Can’t make anyone happy.
The truly OG anti-vaxxers had some among them that thought it was against their god’s will to combat disease, if you can fucking believe it (people are stupid and horrible, it turns out):
https://newrepublic.com/article/121000/puritanical-roots-anti-vaxxer-movement-go-back-300-years
To treat small pox was seen as a form of blasphemy—a moral evil that refused to recognize that epidemics were acts of God.
I just don’t understand how such a “god” could be worthy of worship, then. Imagine losing 9 children before they reached adulthood. I’d flip this “god” of theirs the bird, and try the cure, thankyouveryfuckingmuch.
Well puss is gross man…
I had this idea, like what if we used our own cells to make some of the identifying surface proteins of viruses and stuff, and use that to train our immune system on what to look for. We wouldn’t even need to cultivate the pathogen itself at all.
Your using big words… You must be one of them folks we have to stab with our pitchforks… Get the hell out of here
Anti-vax adults should not have children.
The part that sucks in all of this: the children who died didn’t choose to not get the vaccine. Their parents did.
They might not die. They might just go blind or dead or have brain damage.
But no autism! Cause that’s wOrSt PoSsIbLe thing!
As the parent of an autistic child, I’d much rather him be alive and autistic than killed by a completely preventative means.
Of course, that doesn’t even matter because vaccines don’t fucking cause autism.
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Man… That’s a good point. These people are so fucked up.
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Works in mysterious ways, right?
Correct.
Not vaccinating your children should be cited as child abuse. Because, it is.
Damn, lucky kids. If only the rest of us could get a guiltless exit. (No Im not suicidal)
Sending you a virtual hug. Life is hard and everyone needs hugs now and then
Roadkill RFK will be harvesting their dead for food. Allegedly.
Even worse, he’ll leave them in Central Park.
They will continue to die and let their children die to spite the rest of us.
Hahaha, that is really funny. People in red states dieing because of a disease we wiped out almost entirely. I really gotta open a “child coffin” plant in Texas.
My God. If only there was some sort of preventative measure they could have taken!
Well, their god is maybe the problem:
https://newrepublic.com/article/121000/puritanical-roots-anti-vaxxer-movement-go-back-300-years
The anti-vaccine movement today is not solely religious in character, but much of its rhetoric is identical to theological arguments made against inoculation more than three hundred years ago. As the Florida-based organization KNOW (“Kids Need Options Without Vaccines”), puts it, “All vaccines are made in violation of God’s Word.” Such thinking is partly responsible for the worst measles epidemic in twenty years.
If you think your god wants you and/or your kids to die from preventable diseases, maybe it’s time for a new one?
So they’re saying God is either impotent, or callously cruel? Yeah, definitely dedicate your life to worshipping that. Brilliant logic.
It stops when all the unvaxxed kids die
Lost my uncle at the height of covid because he wouldn’t get vaccinated, apparently because he thought it was population control not sure how many more kids he was going to have at 70 but there we go. He basically spent too long on nonsense Facebook pages and the inevitable happened, all because some random people online convinced him and they will never be held to account.
Might have to start building walls around the areas where idiots are giving each other preventable diseases.
Measles? Isn’t there a vaccine for tha…oh…whoops…
Oopsies.
remember who did this. it’s not over.
So from what lemmy is reporting, we know West Texas has a measles outbreak and some giant fracking earthquake to contend with. Maybe toss in some radioactive exposure from a now-unmonitored nuclear facility and we’ve got the makings of a superhero origin story.
In West Texas? It’ll be a supervillain.
It’s adorable that you think a hero would come out of Texas…
Wait, didn’t Preacher come out of Texas?
Written by a guy from Northern Ireland.
Walker Texas ranger would like a word with you.
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/08/15/texas-rangers-racist-violent-history/
The original purpose of the Rangers was to kill Indians and capture escaped slaves. They were killing native Texans with the wrong color skin for decades.
That’s a world with hope.
We’ll just get an infectious form of super-cancer that’s spread by mutant mosquitoes.
we’ve got the makings of a
superhero origin storyzombie apocalypse.FTFY
Even better! Let’s do this!
In reality they just end up with a debilitating form of cancer, and die penniless under a bridge.
With homelessness becoming increasingly illegal, they’ll die in some kind of work gulag… sorry, “freedom” camp.
