West Virginia confirms first measles case since 2009

HopeOfTheGunblade , 5 months ago

I wish I didn't expect there to be "measles parties" where parents gather their kids alongside infected kids to get that natural immunity.

Alas, I do expect it.

TransplantedSconie , 5 months ago

Fuck me man. New Plague Inc. Retro DLC just drop?

NotMyOldRedditName , 5 months ago

One more time! 🎶 ☠️

Viking_Hippie , 5 months ago

dances around in reflective vest

NotMyOldRedditName , 5 months ago

This comment plus your username 👌

otp , 5 months ago

The anti-vaxxers have won. Congratulations on a stupid prize, and thanks for sharing.

tal , 5 months ago

I’m not sure if you read the article, but the person in question did get partially vaccinated, just never got the booster shot.

I don’t believe that this is some sort of ideological-opposition-to-vaccinations thing.

afraid_of_zombies , 5 months ago

Now I am wondering if I got all of mine.

otp , 5 months ago

I didn’t, but I wasn’t blaming the individual necessarily. But if we didn’t have anti-vaxxers, this person probably wouldn’t have measles right now. Cases are up in a lot of North America thanks to the efforts of anti-vaxxers.

tal , 5 months ago

Maybe. The article also said that while they didn’t know for sure where the person had been exposed, they had traveled abroad recently.

tiefling , 5 months ago

I hope they enjoy their consolation prize, I just feel bad for all the people who can’t get vaxxed but want to :(

Karyoplasma , 5 months ago

If you can get vaccinated and choose not to, you are an asshole.

FenrirIII , 5 months ago

If you can vaccinate your children and choose not to, you are an asshole and a horrible parent.

Bluefalcon , 5 months ago

If you are vaccinated and choose not to vaccinate your children, you are an asshole, horrible parent, and should be castrated.

DragonTypeWyvern , 5 months ago

Calm down, Deutschland

disguy_ovahea , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

More like Uganda. Castration as punishment was Idi Amin’s thing.

DragonTypeWyvern , 5 months ago

It was also a Greco Roman thing, but the relevant bit here is the German based instance user advocating for forced sterilization.

disguy_ovahea , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

The Romans castrated servants for subservience. The Nazis castrated to prevent reproduction. Amin castrated prisoners as punishment.

DragonTypeWyvern , 5 months ago

Greco-Roman usage was complex. They would use it as a political weapon to disinherit rivals and as a means of “ending their line” among other things, criminal punishment, weird sex shit, etc.

…wikipedia.org/…/Political_mutilation_in_Byzantin…

disguy_ovahea , 5 months ago

I think mutilating political opponents would still fall under reproductive prevention. The article states that blinding was the common form of punitive mutilation.

DragonTypeWyvern , 5 months ago

The important bit here is the eugenics angle. Which was a Nazi (and American…) thing.

Unless you think OP is more concerned with trying to eliminate political rivals instead of worrying about the gene pool? Possible, I suppose. Cut the MAGA off at the twig and berries.

disguy_ovahea , 5 months ago

Good point. I didn’t consider that they were implying removal of future parental rights. Semantics? I’m always down for some antics.

FlyingSquid , 5 months ago

The fact that refusing to vaccinate a healthy child isn’t grounds for having that child taken away by CPS makes me question the ‘protection’ part of CPS.

disguy_ovahea , 5 months ago

Second opinion

SeaJ , 5 months ago

Surprised it didn’t happen sooner. West Virginia has the lowest MMR vaccination rate in the country.

meeeeetch , 5 months ago

Not sure where you’re getting that. WV is one of the states with the strictest rules for parents to enroll their kids in school without their immunizations (and a recent attempt to loosen those rules was vetoed).

papertowels , 5 months ago

According to the cdc, they’re actually doing pretty well. A few surprises are doing worse, notably Colorado and DC