West Texas is in the middle of a still-growing measles outbreak with 505 cases reported on Tuesday. The state expanded the number of counties in the outbreak area this week to 10. The highly contagious virus began to spread in late January and health officials say it has spread to New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas and Mexico.
Three people who were unvaccinated have died from measles-related illnesses this year, including two elementary school-aged children in Texas. The second child died Thursday at a Lubbock hospital, and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attended the funeral in Seminole, the epicenter of the outbreak.
As of Friday, there were seven cases at a day care where one young child who was infectious gave it to two other children before it spread to other classrooms, Lubbock Public Health director Katherine Wells said.
Key difference there is vaccines were backed by science and bleach injections were not. Unless you count any scientific evidence of death.
The point is that forcing vaccines is also opening the gates to other things you might not want.
My bleach example was meant to illustrate that a government could decide substance X was safe, even if the science disagrees. And by law you would be forced to get it injected.
In the 50’s to 80’s being vaccinated was manditory to enter school (in a lot of places). It has been done before and can be done again.
The only difference between then and now was the majority of citizens trusted their gov’ts. Over time politician’s lies, thievery and bribery have removed that trust.
If you want that trust to thrive again, force politicians to stop lying … and if they’re caught they automatically go to jail.
I agree with you for the most part. But seeing the current trend of right-wing governments and felons becoming presidents. I’m not sure if I’ll be alive to see that day.
Well that is why I added the part about a provider with proof. A provider would be able to except you from injecting bleach, because the science says it’s not safe.
Your other comment about “The downside of freedom is also the freedom to make bad choices.” I disagree. Your freedom ends when it infringes on mine. If your kid gets the flu from another kid in daycare because that parent decided “I’ll make a bad choice” now that bad choice they made is impacting your health. The same applies to vaccines. I could make the “bad choice” to play bumper cars on the freeway, but now I’d be directly impacting others lives based on my “freedom”.
That’s very naïve. Right now even doctors in Texas are letting young women die, knowingly, because they’re not allowed to save them because it’s not a disease but a dead fetus that’s killing them. Which they are not allowed to remove.
To prevent those bad choices infringing on others is why Germany has those rules in place.
I guess my repeating “BACKED BY SCIENCE” is not doing anything. I guess we’re done here. Especially so if your logic jump from bumper cars is take the bus, not “Don’t play bumper cars.”
No point arguing. Have a nice day.
That’s why I think your being naïve. Backed by science, sure. But the link between autism and vaccines was also backed by science. Despite it being false. And who is funding the science? And who is deciding what get’s published? And who is peer reviewing it?
Science is a messy human process. And can be misappropriated by those in power.
Then you don’t know what that term means. If the science is false, then it is fundamentally NOT backed by science.
Not anymore, but at the time it came out it was.