The Measles Outbreak In South Carolina Is Growing
from the getting-worse dept
I’m certain some people are getting tired of this refrain, but I’m going to keep repeating it to make the point: we shouldn’t have to talk about measles in this country in 2025. This is a disease that had been officially put in elimination status for America over two decades ago. We were done with this, thanks in large part to a dedicated campaign of MMR vaccinations and a government that advocated for those same vaccinations. It was after that when the anti-vaxxer campaigns really began to spring up. RFK Jr. was, of course, one of, if not the, leading voices in that movement.
Now that he is in charge of American health, I suppose it’s not surprising to see measles included in a number of diseases that are raging when they shouldn’t be. We recently talked about an outbreak currently going in South Carolina, which itself originated from the Texas outbreak earlier in the year. Well, that outbreak is getting worse, and health officials are suggesting it will continue getting even worse for some time.
A measles outbreak that began in South Carolina at the start of October is showing no signs of slowing as officials on Tuesday reported 27 new cases since Friday. Those cases bring the outbreak total to 111.
In an update on Tuesday, South Carolina’s health department suggested the spread is far from over. Of the state’s 27 new cases, 16 were linked to exposure at a church, the Way of Truth Church in Inman. And amid the new cases, new exposures were identified at Inman Intermediate School. That’s on top of exposures announced Friday at four other schools in the region, which led to well over 100 students being quarantined.
The end result is that there are, as of this writing, over 250 people quarantining. All of them reportedly are both unvaccinated for measles and have been recently exposed to the disease. If any appreciable percentage of those in quarantine end up ill, and I have no doubt that will happen, it could mean that there is a much larger pre-symptom spread that occurred, which itself will lead to even more infections. That how infectious diseases work, after all, and there are few if any diseases as infectious as measles.
And these are, of course, in counties and areas where there are both relatively low vaccination rates and a very high rate of those seeking religious exemptions from vaccination requirements.
The two counties’ low vaccination rates are coupled with high rates of religious exemptions. Spartanburg has the state’s highest rate, with 8.2 percent of students exempt from the school vaccination requirement based on religious beliefs. Neighboring Greenville has a religious vaccination exemption rate of 5.3 percent.
It’s very interesting just how much one god or another enjoys infecting their believers with measles.
This continues to be a problem nation wide. We’re quickly approaching 2,000 (!!!!!) confirmed cases of measles this year, blowing past total case counts for the last several decades. More undiagnosed cases certainly exist. We’re going to blow way past that 2,000 number as well, in no small part thanks to this outbreak in South Carolina.
Measles is a horrible disease. Just get your damned shots.
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Comments on “The Measles Outbreak In South Carolina Is Growing”
Those that refuse to learn from history must learn the hard way
Nothing like a problem being solved for so long that idiots and/or the arrogant dismiss it as ‘not that big of a deal’, necessitating a new generation of dead and maimed to remind people why the last group was so on board with the solution your generation was so quick to dismiss as not needed.
Bring back Polio
Make Wheelchairs Great Again!
I suggest to add “according to those same believers.” to the end of that line.
The leaders of (at least the big) religions tend to tell their followers to vaccinate.
Re: "It's against my religion!" "'I'm terrified of needles' is not a religion, try again."
If they really want more of their religion’s followers to get vaccinated it would seem the best way would be not just urging people to get vaccinated but issuing very public proclamations that there is nothing in their religion that would prohibit getting vaccinated, thereby taking out the ‘I’m not taking the vaccine for religious reasons’ lie out at the knees
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Being terrified of needles is a far better reasoning than religion. It is a cry for help, really. You can offer something like oral sedation or bribe them to boost compliance rates. They are hesitant, not unconditionally refusing. Hell, they are even giving a theoretically possible way to do it, change the vector to be non-injected. Not an easy demand but a possible one.
You can’t do anything for religious citations. It is willful stupidity.
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As someone with a serious phobia of needles, I have been closely following the development of an intranasal covid vaccine, the next stage of trials should be complete mid-2027. Hopefully after that we’ll have sufficiently promising results to get them approved.
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Well I stand corrected, very solid points all around.
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Doesn’t always work. Just check some of the reactions (including Catholics) to the Pope doing just that when, and after, the COVID19 vaccine became available.
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You’re misunderstanding what their religion actually is. American Christianity is at this point only connected loosely to the Bible and Christ.
For many of them the Bible is only a hollow idol to pay lip service to. They don’t read it and don’t know what’s in it, beyond the few specific passages that they can use to justify their unjust positions.
And it’s the same with Christ: they don’t know and would not agree with many of his teachings in the gospels.
Their religion is their politics, and their politics are tribal anti-science, anti-mercy, anti-equality, and anti-society regressive authoritarianism… with a thin coat of Christian paint on top.
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By us giving ‘religion’ a free pass from being based on anything real – nothing they encounter that contradicts their religion is valid.
Until religion is left in the dust bin of history humanity isn’t going to progress.
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I’m also terrified of needles. doesn’t change how frequently my medical conditions mean I need an encounter with one.
My doctor gives me a one shot prescription for half a pack of diazepam in advance of every vaccination or blood test. Problem SOLVED.
This is just natural selection at work, so why should I be concerned? I’ll just stay home, maintain my COVID-era safety protocols and wait it out. The idiots won’t be in charge forever, and maybe the World will be safer and less freaking CROWDED when I pop back out in a few years.
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The reason why we should care is that it doesn’t just target the people deciding that their kids don’t get vaccinated.
Their kids do not decide to not get the shots.
Then there are the people who for some reason cannot receive vaccines (for example the immune-compromised).
The people who get the shot but where it doesn’t take.
The people who the shots worked but are fighting of something else.
Don’t forget the babies to young to get vaccinated. First shot for measles for example is 12 months.
And if that isn’t enough; Not enough of the unvaccinated die to have it work as natural selection. Ending up with long term effects tends to be more likely (for example the wipe of the immune system long term memory as a result of contracting measles).
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Their kids do not decide to not get the shots.
Don’t forget the babies to young to get vaccinated. First shot for measles for example is 12 months.
Then the kids and parents should be ostracized, with the parents bearing sole resonsibility for the consequences of their children. Might also think about using the word ‘neglect’ or ‘incompetent’ when deciding to charge them for their decisions, should a child die.
These people need to be stuck on an island so the rest of us don’t have to participate in their misguided, grounded in stupid, science experiment. We let too much slide during COVID, to the detriment of people who actually took precautions. I can’t help thinking of all those ‘patriots’ taking ventilators from those who knew their lack of breathing wasn’t some kind of hoax virus.
If we keep up this attitude of pretending their concerns are ‘valid’ the next pandemic might truly kill more of us than COVID. This is moving past ‘their rights’ and subjecting more of us to their death cult instincts.
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The measles vaccine is only 93% effective at one lifetime dose and 97% effective at two lifetime doses, people born before the mid-80s have likely only received one lifetime dose (also, COVID can cause a similar form of immune amnesia as measles itself does, so if you’ve had COVID, there’s a chance you’re no longer covered by your past vaccinations) and the basic reproduction number of measles (how many people each person with the disease infects) is around 18. (COVID, at its height, never went past about 4.) It also does genuinely have the fomite transmission people originally feared for COVID as well as airborne transmission. All of that means your “COVID era safety precautions” are not enough to avoid you actually catching measles. Plus, don’t forget, you have to be perfect with precautions constantly; the disease only needs you to slip once. Good luck!
Oh yeah, and also saying that kids who can’t make their own medical choices (and immunocompromised people who can’t safely be vaccinated with a live-virus vaccine, which the measles vaccine is) deserve to die for something they have absolutely no control over is sociopath shit, stop fucking doing it.
In 1963, before the vaccine, I lost most of the hearing in one ear because of measles. My aunt lost all of her hearing. I get so angry when I hear people who should know better say it’s a harmless childhood disease. I also get angry at people saying they’re getting what they deserve. When the victims are innocent children, they’re not getting what they deserve. They’re being abused by their parents. I’m sure some of the children are going to lose some or all of their hearing. It’s a pain in the ass, and I wouldn’t wish it on anybody.
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Big Pharma sponsored alarmism to bolster the profitable hypochondriac religion of injecting healthy kids as often as possible with anything that can make it past a captured regulatory body
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Hey, look, a plague enthusiast! I thought you ratlickers would’ve fucked off from the rest of the Internet after it became clear you disease-spreading jackasses weren’t welcome in polite society.
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Yeah, but the state of Florida exists, so…
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Nice buzzwords, did a Youtuber give them to you?
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Isn’t it strange that you never get any conspiracy theorists ranting about
Big Gun wanting to pump children full of lead?
Link?
in South Carolina, which itself originated from the Texas
Can someone post a link supporting this. I know the Utah/Arizona outbreak has been linked. I didn’t know the SC outbreak was also linked.
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Google is your friend…
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Wow, so helpful. Neither Bing nor Google provide any links to a reliable statement saying the outbreaks are linked. So at this point, I assume there is no evidence linking the outbreaks and the article should be corrected.
"Nothing like a problem being solved for so long that idiots and/or the arrogant dismiss it ..."
Just wait for the campaigns again water chlorination. Not fluoridation, chlorination.
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The city we used to live in, Oshkosh, WI, used ozone instead of chlorine. Given a choice I’d pick ozone. Not that there’s anything wrong with chlorine as far as disinfecting the water, but I don’t like the smell. The ozonated water had a nice fresh smell.
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Love your baby. Kill it in the womb before it has a chance to be a conservative.
Stupidity
“If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!”
Robert Heinlein
endgame
The end game here is to make a gigantic disease outbreak then sell magic-crystal/chakra style cures and make billions through defrauding people
RFK himself has massive holdings in a lot of pseudo-science companies and is maliciously making “science” look bad.
he literally goes “see? science can’t save you…but this bit of orange quartz will stop your grandma dying of measles”