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.
remember who did this. it’s not over.
It stops when all the unvaxxed kids die
Keep refusing vaccines, dummies
bUt MaH bElEaFs!?!!
FReEdUmBs!!!
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.
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.
In West Texas? It’ll be a supervillain.
we’ve got the makings of a
superhero origin storyzombie apocalypse.FTFY
Even better! Let’s do this!
That’s a world with hope.
We’ll just get an infectious form of super-cancer that’s spread by mutant mosquitoes.
In reality they just end up with a debilitating form of cancer, and die penniless under a bridge.
Religious nuts.
not even that, they use it as an excuse for their rotten brain
Careful.
Sec. 2. Establishing a Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias. (a) There is hereby established within the Department of Justice the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias (Task Force).\ (b) The Attorney General shall serve as Chair of the Task Force.\ (c) In addition to the Chair, the Task Force shall consist of the following other members:\ (i) the Secretary of State;\ (ii) the Secretary of the Treasury;\ (iii) the Secretary of Defense;\ (iv) the Secretary of Labor;\ (v) the Secretary of Health and Human Services;\ (vi) the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development;\ (vii) the Secretary of Education;\ (viii) the Secretary of Veterans Affairs;\ (ix) the Secretary of Homeland Security;\ (x) the Director of the Office of Management and Budget;\ (xi) Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations;\ (xii) the Administrator of the Small Business Administration;\ (xiii) the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation;\ (xiv) the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy;\ (xv) the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency;\ (xvi) the Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; and\ (xvii) the heads of such other executive departments, agencies, and offices that the Chair may, from time to time, invite to participate.https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/eradicating-anti-christian-bias/
Kinda worried posting myself and I’m not american owned yet. Which is my way of saying that I don’t insinuate you’re American, just it’s that absurd.
Everybody expects this inquisition.
Measles? Isn’t there a vaccine for tha…oh…whoops…
Oopsies.
Points for no spelling errors.
“It’s not that they’re not educated. It’s just
what their belief isthey’re complete idiots.”FTFY
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!
Man… That’s a good point. These people are so fucked up.
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.
As an autist who is also vaxxed against many many things, I got autism ^2
Correct.
Not vaccinating your children should be cited as child abuse. Because, it is.
don’t worry, they’ll live guilt free lives believing that the sky man took away their children for a higher purpose in sky man world.
they’ll just stay here and inflict more pain and agony on those of us who survive out of a desperate sense to sell themselves the lie that they didn’t kill their child.
wait…
Works in mysterious ways, right?
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.
Measles to the left me, bird flu to the right me, stuck in the middle of both of them.
MOSTLY unvaccinated? How many vaccinated people got the measles?
Vaccines aren’t 100% effective, the way they work is mostly through herd immunity, where an epidemic effectively peters out due to lack of viable hosts. Depending on the infectiousness of the pathogen, a +90% vaccination rate is usually enough to keep an infection from breaking through.
herd immunity
What is especially irritating is that the conspiracy theorists latch onto this terminology as “proof” that the “globalists” view you as a herd animal…
Another unfortunate thing is how the term “theory” in a scientific sense is very different from the layperson’s use of that word…
Two doses of the measles vaccine are approximately 97% effective at preventing measles. Certainly not 100%, but not too shabby.
Immunity wanes over time. There’s probably adults getting it.
Well for crying out loud… That’s me. I don’t live in Texas but I live in the next worst state, Florida. Is there a booster?
Ask your doctor for the MMR vaccine. Iirc you are more likely to get side-effects as an adult, but that beats getting measles.
I redid my entire childhood vaccinations at age 40 because my small home town had no records and I needed proof - to like, look after sick people. No problems, no side effects.
You can get MMR at travel clinics around here. So it cost me like $15 to avoid even needing to ask a doctor.
Sigh.
RFK will recommend drinking water, take a vitamin and suck it up. Nothing to see here, move along. I feel sorry for the children who are led by their dumb fucked up parents.
Next up, Polio.
And it will never end til everyone who can contract measles, contracts it. TX does not care, and neither does RFK Jr. Shrug.
I would totally gloat on the FO, but it sucks for the non-idiotic Texans and those that can’t get vaxed. :-/
