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Pennsylvania health officials brace themselves as measles outbreak expected to spread
(www.theguardian.com)
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I’d prefer less dead children.
cars and guns should be your target to ban. They are the two biggest killers of children.
The Dutch had mass, often violet, protests in the 1970's because cars were killing kids. They changed their entire society because they wanted less dead kids, Most other nations think dead kids is a fair trade. Something in us is broken
Okay, but if you look all the way up at OPs post the discussion is about a measles outbreak.
It would be kind of an odd non-sequitur for me to randomly shoehorn my thoughts about cars and guns in America into a conversation about a measles outbreak and anti-vaxxers…
Sitting here reading this wondering what kind of shithead thinks cats are killing children. Is it the "cats steal your breath" bullshit again?
Then I read on. Oh "cars" not "cats".
We have to get a control group for the experiment of breaking up the MMR vaccine somehow.
I guess you’ll have to forgive me for thinking jokes about dead children through adult negligence and malfeasance isn’t funny.
I wasn't joking.
With no medical reason and a sample size of several million humans we're going to run an experiment that will end in a measurable amount of deaths from measles and there are no ethics guidelines. Without a population stupidly refusing to be vaccinated at all we won't have a good way of knowing what the death toll is.
Without all the dead kids contributing to the study there'd be no value in it at all since the executive order's effects can't start yet due to lack of an approved MMR vaccine and a legal hold up blocking the order. Since it takes two years for autism to show up after a kid is born, and since the executive order will likely be overturned in January 2029, we'll have just that small window to gather the necessary data.
Don't mistake my pragmatism for happiness.
How about i take it as ghoulish and worry mongering.
I don't understand how it's worry mongering.
I don't agree that it's any more ghoulish than it is to notice that people eventually do die and that there's a market for funeral homes.