Anti-Vaxers are Vexed

[Johnny Sack 8397]

1 hour ago, High Plains Drifter said:

The influx of people from countries with higher rates of vaccination? From countries where there currently aren't outbreaks of measles?

Dolores Leba needs to DIAF DOSF*.

 

*Die of Scarlett Fever

 

 

Seriously, that kind of shit should be the equivalent of yelling "fire" in a crowded theater.

 

Yep.  Mexicans and central Americans vaccinate.  They are not too far removed from those diseases not being eradicated in their countries.  It's the weird combo if lefty hippy granolas and righty fundy Christians who don't vaccinate their kids.

[High Plains Drifter 11050]

2 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

Yep.  Mexicans and central Americans vaccinate.  They are not too far removed from those diseases not being eradicated in their countries.  It's the weird combo if lefty hippy granolas and righty fundy Christians who don't vaccinate their kids.

 

Its where the two extremes wrap all the way around and meet in the back. Or something.

[Parliament 14284]

Five cases of the Mumps in ND. Not sure if that's above normal or not. I have assumed my State was not ate up with such stupidity, but I may be wrong.

['stache 21838]

This does seem to appeal to crazies at both ends of the political spectrum.

Righties: “Fuck the government telling me to vaccinate, fucking socialists taking away mah freedoms. Don’t tread on me!”

Lefties: “Fuck Big Pharma, fucking capitalist oligarchs getting rich off dangerous chemicals! Power to the people!”

[High Plains Drifter 11050]

5 hours ago, 'stache said:

This does seem to appeal to crazies at both ends of the political spectrum.

Righties: “Fuck the government telling me to vaccinate, fucking socialists taking away mah freedoms. Don’t tread on me!”

Lefties: “Fuck Big Pharma, fucking capitalist oligarchs getting rich off dangerous chemicals! Power to the people!”

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right.

Here I am stuck in the middle with you.

Edited February 22, 2019 by High Plains Drifter
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[Izhmash 563]

7 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right.

Here I am stuck in the middle with you.

Username checks out.  Avatar checks out, too! 

[crash_davis 23114]

 

[Post Oak 20256]

Ok which one of y'all voted for this moron.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.texasobserver.org/amid-measles-outbreak-texas-lawmakers-want-to-make-it-even-easier-to-opt-out-of-vaccines/amp

Amid Measles Outbreak, Texas Lawmakers Want to Make it Even Easier to Opt Out of Vaccines

A new bill would ban the Texas health department from tracking vaccine exemptions — a move medical experts say would curb their ability to identify outbreaks.

Texas state Representative Bill Zedler doesn’t understand the fuss over the resurgence of infectious diseases. “When I grew up, I had a lot of these illnesses,” he said, listing measles, mumps and chickenpox. “They wanted me to stay at home. But as far as being sick in bed, it wasn’t anything like that,” said Zedler, an outspoken anti-vaxxerand longtime member of the House Public Health Committee who has worked in the health-care industry. The only lawmaker with an A++ rating from Texans for Vaccine Choice

[gmr548 16604]

Ok which one of y'all voted for this moron.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.texasobserver.org/amid-measles-outbreak-texas-lawmakers-want-to-make-it-even-easier-to-opt-out-of-vaccines/amp

Amid Measles Outbreak, Texas Lawmakers Want to Make it Even Easier to Opt Out of Vaccines

A new bill would ban the Texas health department from tracking vaccine exemptions — a move medical experts say would curb their ability to identify outbreaks.

Texas state Representative Bill Zedler doesn’t understand the fuss over the resurgence of infectious diseases. “When I grew up, I had a lot of these illnesses,” he said, listing measles, mumps and chickenpox. “They wanted me to stay at home. But as far as being sick in bed, it wasn’t anything like that,” said Zedler, an outspoken anti-vaxxerand longtime member of the House Public Health Committee who has worked in the health-care industry. The only lawmaker with an A++ rating from Texans for Vaccine Choice

Wow. Surely there are enough sane people in Arlington/Mansfield to vote that guy out.

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[Brisketexan 105273]

2 hours ago, gmr548 said:

Wow. Surely there are enough sane people in Arlington/Mansfield to vote that guy out.

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[HenryJames 66160]

 

[Neonmoon 38130]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/15/health/measles-2019-us-global-cdc-who-bn/index.html

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"By the time you finish reading this, we estimate that at least 40 people -- most of them children -- will be infected by this fast-moving, life-threatening disease," Henrietta Fore, executive director of UNICEF, and Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, wrote in an opinion piece Monday on CNN. 

About 1 out of every 1,000 children who gets measles will develop encephalitis or swelling of the brain, according to the CDC. This can lead to convulsions and leave a child deaf or with an intellectual disability.

Additionally, 1 or 2 out of 1,000 children who get measles will die from it.

 

What you need to know about measles as the virus spreads across the country 

No fatalities have been reported in the United States from measles this year or last year, but 35 people in European Union countries died of the disease in 2018, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

Before the first measles vaccine became available in 1963, the disease killed hundreds of people and hospitalized 48,000 each year, according to the CDC. 

After the vaccine, cases plummeted, with 963 cases in 1994. In 2000, the disease was declared eliminated in the United States. Despite the ongoing outbreaks in communities across the United States, measles is still considered eliminated, which means it is not being continuously transmitted in this country. Measles would no longer be considered eliminated once it was continuously transmitted for longer than 12 months.

The CDC recommends two doses of the measles mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine for children. The first should be given at 12 to 15 months and the second when the child is 4 to 6 years old. The first dose gives 93% protection against measles and the second dose gives 97% protection. 

The anti-vaxer movement 

Experts point to one reason for this year's large outbreak: the power of the anti-vaccination movement.

"It's just terribly sad that children in the US are having to suffer measles. This should not happen," said Dr. William Schaffner, medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases and an adviser to the CDC on vaccines. "We'd previously eliminated this disease not just in the US but in the entire Western Hemisphere, and it appears that now we've profoundly and sadly turned back the clock."

 

Anti-vaxers' adult son gets measles; now, he has this message for the world

The 20 states reporting measles this year are Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Texas and Washington. 

Most of the cases have been in New York, site of an outbreak among ultra-Orthodox Jews that started in the fall.

Messonier says the New York outbreak has been particularly difficult to control. "Most measles outbreaks in the US stop sooner than this," she said.

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Health officials there announced last weekthat in the neighborhoods affected by the outbreak, anyone who has not had been vaccinated against measles or cannot show evidence of immunity could face a $1,000 fine. 

On Monday, the New York City health department announced that one child-care program was closed "for repeatedly failing to provide access to medical and attendance records in violation of an Order of the Health Commissioner in response to the current measles outbreak." Schools and child-care programs are required to maintain records on-site, and unvaccinated students and staff are prohibited from attending. 

In addition, the department said, "23 yeshivas and day care programs have received Notices of Violations (NOVs) for not following the school exclusion order." 

Health officials in Rockland County, New York, tried to bar unvaccinated children from public places, but a judge prohibited the county from enforcing that rule. 

Messonier said it's a matter of "correcting myths" about vaccination. Health authorities have worked with rabbis to explain that vaccination is safe, but that still hasn't turned the outbreak around.

"You have to just approach people where they are and answer their questions," Messonier said. "It's about the slow work of developing trust."

CNN's John Bonifield, Debra Goldschmidt and Rob Frehse contributed to this report.

Way to go anti-vax  dumbfucks 

[Asithappens 974]

On 2/27/2019 at 2:03 PM, Post Oak said:

Ok which one of y'all voted for this moron.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.texasobserver.org/amid-measles-outbreak-texas-lawmakers-want-to-make-it-even-easier-to-opt-out-of-vaccines/amp

Amid Measles Outbreak, Texas Lawmakers Want to Make it Even Easier to Opt Out of Vaccines

A new bill would ban the Texas health department from tracking vaccine exemptions — a move medical experts say would curb their ability to identify outbreaks.

Texas state Representative Bill Zedler doesn’t understand the fuss over the resurgence of infectious diseases. “When I grew up, I had a lot of these illnesses,” he said, listing measles, mumps and chickenpox. “They wanted me to stay at home. But as far as being sick in bed, it wasn’t anything like that,” said Zedler, an outspoken anti-vaxxerand longtime member of the House Public Health Committee who has worked in the health-care industry. The only lawmaker with an A++ rating from Texans for Vaccine Choice

Lol. Texas is a great state but there are far too many ignorant dumb fucks here. And the ignorant dumb fucks seem to vote similar people into state office.

This is just Texas being Texas.

[JimmyHoffa 1188]

On 3/1/2019 at 6:55 AM, HenryJames said:

 

 

GET FUCKING VACCINATED. Easy peasy. 

[Hornius Emeritus 12481]

Fucking anti-vaxxers!


 

Bubonic plague outbreak: Plane passengers quarantined after couple die from disease

The man, 38, and his pregnant wife, 37, are thought to have fallen ill after hunting and eating contaminated marmot in Mongolia




 

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/bubonic-plague-outbreak-plane-passengers-14987444

[jimmyjazz 46094]

Well, shit.  I had marmot in Mongolia when I was over there for the big Easter celebration.  It's been nice knowing y'all.

[Brisketexan 105273]

Well, shit.  I had marmot in Mongolia when I was over there for the big Easter celebration.  It's been nice knowing y'all.

[Chooky 13317]

From Anti-Vaccine Proponent [sic] and Texas State Representative Bill Zedler's Wiki page: 

Anti vaccine advocate, Texas House Representative Bill Zedler, is a longtime member of the TEXAS HOUSE PUBLIC HEALTH COMMITTEE, appointed by the Let's Be Dumber Than Mississippi Coalition.  Zedler has remained loyal to his commitments of being anti-abortion and pro-child death.  Representative Zedler continues his pursuit of funding research for the design of blenders that have pitchers large and shallow enough to accommodate the human face and sink disposals that don't obstruct the user from inserting their penises and tits.  Bill Zedler, District 96, Arlington, is fighting against intrusive, big government laws against hurling lit molotov cocktails at gas station pumps and every Texan's right to administer suppositories with a C-100 Instalaza Rocket Launcher.  Mr. Zedler has been a vehement opponent of traffic lights, designated lanes, street signs, air bags, seat belts, traffic statutes that discriminate against the legally blind and laws against "just putting the fucker in reverse and flooring the shit out of it."      

[RomaVicta 29967]

This is astonishing.

I was a child in the 60s. The memory and fear of polio and epidemic was pointed and universal among the immediately older generation. It hadn't been long since the neighborhood streets were empty due to the fear contagion. I got the mumps when I was very little then chicken pox and German measles in grade school. As I recall, a bad case of flu (which we also don't fear enough) felt worse.

Now complacency marries idiocy. My final few decades may take place in a black comedy where the human population is decimated by some tourist who ate a "contaminated marmot" and the Western World, angry or bored, embraces fascism, again.

ALL AVOIDABLE.

Except for here...

...in the twilight zone of Idiot World.

[Armybrat 40874]

An extended family member contracted polio as a kid in the early 1950s. While it didn’t make him a basket case, he still had some trouble with one arm & one leg with slightly degraded usage. He had a good career as the owner of an insurance agency and raised a family of three kids. However, as he reached his mid 60s he grew fearful that his mobility was declining and that he was going to become a burden to his wife. So he shot himself. RIP

[RPM 26341]

I like this new approach. Let them know it's herpes with a side of shingles.

Chickenpox is a lifelong herpes virus that comes with a serious side effect

The Kentucky teenager who caught chickenpox after refusing to be vaccinated for religious reasons may not realize there can be lifelong consequences from being infected with a herpes virus.

Like many people who view chickenpox as just a normal part of growing up, they may not realize that recovering from the disease doesn't mean the virus is gone, or that they're immune from a future problem.

In fact, chickenpox — technically known as the varicella zoster virus — is a type of herpes virus that, just like its close relative herpes simplex, becomes a lifelong resident in the body.

And like its other cousin, genital herpes, varicella may be silent for many years, hiding out inside nerve cells and can reactivate later, wreaking havoc in the form of the excruciating skin disorder, shingles.

CHICKENPOX IS A TYPE OF HERPES
But like many people who view chickenpox as just a normal part of growing up, they may not realize that recovering from the disease doesn't mean the virus is gone, or that they're immune from a future problem.

In fact, chickenpox — technically known as the varicella zoster virus — is a type of herpes virus that, just like its close relative herpes simplex, becomes a lifelong resident in the body.

And like its other cousin, genital herpes, varicella may be silent for many years, hiding out inside nerve cells and can reactivate later, wreaking havoc in the form of the excruciating skin disorder, shingles.

HOW TO AVOID SHINGLES
The best protection against shingles is to never get chickenpox.

“A person has to have had chickenpox in order to develop shingles,” Tan said. “If a person has never had chickenpox, they will not develop shingles.”

Chickenpox “is erroneously thought of as a not-too-unpleasant rite of passage of childhood,” said Dr. Nina Shapiro, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine, who is the director of pediatric otolaryngology at UCLA, and the author of “Hype: A Doctor's Guide to Medical Myths, Exaggerated Claims, and Bad Advice — How to Tell What's Real and What's Not.”

The image of chickenpox as a benign disease has led to some poorly thought out behaviors, like taking children to chickenpox parties, Shapiro said in an email.

A person has to have had chickenpox in order to develop shingles. If a person has never had chickenpox, they will not develop shingles.

Spoiler

 

Those kids may pay the price decades later, experts say. That’s because the chickenpox virus hides out, dormant, in nerve cells all over the body, waiting for an opportunity to explode back into action as shingles, the blistering, burning skin rash. And shingles comes with its own risks: People who developed shingles had an almost 60 percent higher risk of heart attack and a 35 percent higher risk of stroke, according to a recent study. About 1 million people develop shingles each year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“Anything that weakens a person’s immune system — mental and physical stress, HIV, cancer, severe illness, surgery, medications or chemo or radiation therapies, transplant — increases that person’s risk for developing shingles no matter the age,” said Dr. Tina Tan, a professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital.

That said, “shingles occurs more commonly as a person ages, with a significant increase in occurrence in persons 50 years of age and older,” Tan said in an email. “Anyone who has been infected with varicella-zoster virus is at risk for developing shingles.”

Older people are more susceptible because our immune systems decline as we age, Tan said.

Shingles shows up on one side of the body or face as a rash that consists of painful blisters that typically scab over in seven to 10 days, according to the CDC. One to five days prior to the eruption of the rash, people often experience pain, itching or tingling. The condition can also come with fever, headache, chills and an upset stomach. The CDC estimates that one in three people will develop shingles at some point in their lives.

Even after a person gets over a bout of shingles, the pain may not completely subside. Some continue to experience “post herpetic pain” where the rash erupted.

SHINGLES CAN GET IN THE EYES
And in a frightening complication, shingles can affect the eyes and lead to loss of vision.

The number of Americans diagnosed with these eye complications tripled between 2004 and 2016, according to a large study researchers from the University of Michigan’s Kellogg Eye Center presented last week at the 2019 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology annual meeting in Vancouver.

In fact, the eyes are involved in about 15 percent of people who develop shingles, said Dr. Ivan Schwab, a clinical spokesperson for the American Academy of Ophthalmology and a professor of ophthalmology at the University of California, Davis.

What happens, Schwab explained, is that shingles follows a single branch of nerves. If it affects the branch that goes to the face, the eyes can be involved. Along with the pain, it can damage vision or cause blindness in a small percentage of patients.

“Others may have less damage, but enough to affect their lives," Schwab said. "A surgeon, for example, may no longer be able to operate.”

 

 

[NeverMarryAStripper 21920]

Shingles and kidney stones can fuck right off

[Pato del Muerto 52568]

Didn’t terry bradshaw invent a shingles vaccine?