Texas Official Warns Against ‘Measles Parties’ Amid Growing Outbreak
Texas Official Warns Against ‘Measles Parties’ Amid Growing Outbreak
At least 146 measles cases have been identified in West Texas so far, including 20 hospitalizations and one death.
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Measels can reset your immune systems memory of how to fight other pathogens:
https://asm.org/articles/2019/may/measles-and-immune-amnesia
They're gambling with a lot more here than measels.
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I know the article says this is just something going around on social media, but fuck me, sometimes I go to a dark place and think maybe measles should win. Maybe evolution needs to cull this dipshittery.
Then I think of the kids who don't have a choice. Why are people so fucking dumb?
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Maybe evolution needs to cull this dipshittery.
Okay here's the issue, the parents who are pushing this are probably vaccinated for measles.
As a smart kid born to absolutely dumb as living fuck parents, genetics does not mean two stupid parents automatically beget a stupid child.
So in your proposed scenario you're risking killing intelligent children whose worst crime was being born to absolute fucking idiots.
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Exactly, hence the last sentence of my comment.
Evolution is cruel, and if that particular strain of stupid results in fewer successful offspring, maybe we're better off as a species.
I definitely read too much science fiction and think about this shit on a grand scale constantly, so sometimes I have to be reminded about being fucking human. And apparently these dumbass parents might need to be too.
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Also, dumb children who don't deserve measles. Say no to measles!
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I'm all for it, Darwin at work
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No. We don't need to condem the children of parents prone to disinformation.
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Problem is the parents are mostly fine, because they were vaccinated. The victims are almost all children AFAIK.
Also if this continues, it will hit vaccinated people too, because vaccination is not 100%, but with high enough vaccination rates, it prevents the disease from spreading.Antivaxxers however prevent the rate of vaccination to be high enough in some communities!
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22% of reported measles cases are vaccinated. Edit: Source
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This is contrary to what the article says:
So far, 116 of the 146 cases are under the age of 18, with 46 being 4 or under. Only five of the 146 were vaccinated with at least one dose of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine.
5/146 is ~3.4%
You can get measles when vaccinated, particularly if you only had one dose (the standard for people vaccinated before 1989) but it's much much less likely.
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