Second death in measles epidemic
Mar. 8th, 2025 04:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneAuthorities announced that the Texas death was an unvaccinated six y/o. The second death was this week in New Mexico and was an unvaccinated adult who did not seek medical assistance before he passed. He only tested positive for measles after his death, cause of death is being investigated.
Almost 200 cases are reported thus far, 3/4ths of them are age 0-17.
New Mexico has ten cases in Lea County, across the border from Gaines County, Texas, which is the epicenter of the plague. Authorities are having to discourage people from having measles parties to purposely infect their kids to "build immunity". They're also having a rush on cod livercastor oil, which is high in vitamin A which is believed to be protective against measles. Hint: it isn't. Only the vaccine is protective against it.
Unfortunately I don't have a cite for this, but the religious group that's dominant in the area that's resisting vaccination based on their faith? THEY ARE GOING AGAINST THEIR LEADERS. Their leaders published a doctrinal whateverwhosit stating that it is proper and good to take the Covid-19 vaccinations, and all vaccinations to be good citizens in the community and to keep themselves safe. So they're going against their religious leaders in refusing to get vaccinated!
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/measles-outbreak-hits-208-cases-as-federal-outbreak-response-goes-off-the-rails/
Oh, and Robert Fucking Kennedy Junior Mint? He's off rock climbing in California. And recommending that vitamins and supplements are very effective. And cancelling vaccine advisory meetings and scrubbing information off the CDC web site.
EDIT: It was cod liver oil, thanks tomoonhare. I mis-remembered.
Almost 200 cases are reported thus far, 3/4ths of them are age 0-17.
New Mexico has ten cases in Lea County, across the border from Gaines County, Texas, which is the epicenter of the plague. Authorities are having to discourage people from having measles parties to purposely infect their kids to "build immunity". They're also having a rush on cod liver
Unfortunately I don't have a cite for this, but the religious group that's dominant in the area that's resisting vaccination based on their faith? THEY ARE GOING AGAINST THEIR LEADERS. Their leaders published a doctrinal whateverwhosit stating that it is proper and good to take the Covid-19 vaccinations, and all vaccinations to be good citizens in the community and to keep themselves safe. So they're going against their religious leaders in refusing to get vaccinated!
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/measles-outbreak-hits-208-cases-as-federal-outbreak-response-goes-off-the-rails/
Oh, and Robert Fucking Kennedy Junior Mint? He's off rock climbing in California. And recommending that vitamins and supplements are very effective. And cancelling vaccine advisory meetings and scrubbing information off the CDC web site.
EDIT: It was cod liver oil, thanks to
moonhare. I mis-remembered.
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Date: 2025-03-09 12:16 am (UTC)Our government and their crazy minions are going to do it all on their own.
GET YOUR SHOTS NOW PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hugs, Jon
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Date: 2025-03-09 01:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-09 02:19 am (UTC)Thank you! I forgotted.
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Date: 2025-03-09 02:46 am (UTC)I like your name for him.
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Date: 2025-03-09 02:49 am (UTC)Well, I mean, the F clearly stands for something! :-)
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Date: 2025-03-09 03:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-09 08:57 am (UTC)To me, no one with critical thinking skills would embrace the far right (the leopards eating people's faces party). Anti-vax is a litmus test. If you are stupid enough to fall for it, you are ripe to be plucked as a stupid goon desperate to have your face eaten off by a leopard.
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Date: 2025-03-09 04:31 pm (UTC)I think part of the basic problem is the increasing failure of community. These anti-vax people don't understand that a virus ignores borders, and weakened community response means a lot more severe illnesses, lingering disability, and potential deaths. In the case of Covid, I lost a cousin to it during the first wave: he was in the hospital expected to be discharged, got up to go to the bathroom and collapsed. Complete renal failure that they hadn't noticed, he was dead the next day.
So much for my brother's "vaccine not targeting the lungs" issue.
While I don't have a lot of positive things to say about my brother, he can be a very smart and I'll bet he has a high IQ, creative person. But he's not well-educated, which drives me nuts. He could have been so much more, but instead he prioritized watching TV and hanging with his friends. I also suspect he's a bit dyslexic but he's never been tested, and as he's almost 66, that's never going to happen and he's never going to change.
End of rant. :-)
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Date: 2025-03-13 02:06 am (UTC)